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Not the OP but this line really got my attention > I'd love to see an LLM even fractionally capable of some of the things my job entails If you don't mind could you please elaborat…

I regularly feel this connection to others in the past whenever I look at old photographs of people in a city I'm familiar with, and yes absolutely when I'm in historic buildings o…

Orrrrr just use a lisp?

> The paper also noted that although reading with children is rare, it has not changed much over time. This part really got to me, reading to one's children is rare? That's so sad.…

> That writing is the only way to do deep, clear, thinking simply isn't true. You're correct here. > Stephen Hawking is the first example that comes to mind. The post is obviously …

If you enjoyed this post, you might also like these books that expand on the same concept: * _Hyperculture: The Human Cost of Speed_ by Stephen Bertman * _How to Do Nothing_ by Jen…

Thomas Merton's _New Seeds of Contemplation_

I'm having my first kid soon and I'm torn on how to/when to introduce them to iPads. On one hand, I see kids throw complete tantrums out in public until their parents give them the…

Hm, it feels like all of these except for number 2 and the last one can be solved by appropriate interfaces and documentation.

They said it's normal to faint after receiving a flu shot? Hasn't heard of that happening to people before. What was the explanation?

I've been using Lemmy and I've been pretty satisfied with it.

I like lisps syntactically. The only thing stopping me from using it more frequently is the lack of static typing. I wasn't always a stickler for static typing, but I've spent a lo…

> The main benefit of knowing multiple languages is eavesdropping on people in the street speaking their language, but that's about it. Hah, that's the least of benefits IMO. I'm n…

What do you figure is next for you?

Yup, Plex is the way to go for me too. I use plexamp as my client and it's been a wonderful experience. Really love the sonic analysis features, especially the guest DJs.

I disagree, I think a degree of homogenization is good for information heavy websites, like government ones [1][2][3] and sites geared towards documentation. Consistency here is go…

Something about "I've been around since 2009" is hilarious. Evokes "I'm 14 and I am very smart" vibes

I recently started using plexamp and it’s been fantastic. I only use Music.app on my machine to rip CDs to a directory on my NAS that plexamp is serving.

> Often these roles are far less stressful What did you have in mind specifically? I can’t think of anything myself that doesn’t seem just as or more stressful and with less flexib…

So culturally which style of working do you prefer yourself? Or if it’s not binary, are there parts of how software was written yesterday that you’d like to bring into organization…

I agree that the article generalizes, basically to the point of condescension. Were you “there” though? I wasn’t so genuinely curious if his recollection reflects reality. EDIT: th…

Could someone of the appropriate age group with experience please confirm for me if everything this guy is saying was true generally speaking? I’m honestly curious as I’m too young…

Not the same thing, but I believe the parent commenter because I’ve seen multiple studies done where it was found that breathing exercises seemed to help with reflux: https://www.n…