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    Comment #36942241

    >But I can’t look up in a book how precisely psychotherapy fixes depression. Well, you can for CBT. CBT goes by the assumption that a lot of depression comes from negative thoughts…

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    Comment #36905029

    I tried that too, but it's just not practical. Even just going without gApps is difficult, but doable. Having some sort of encrypted messenger (like Signal) seems kinda necessary i…

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    Comment #36903976

    Just a few more months then people will stop talking about it, as usual.

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    Comment #36903729

    >And when every other aspect of your life is being increasingly optimized by and for others, it is a small revolutionary act to be inconvenient. That hit me. People often ask me wh…

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    Comment #36876014

    Because both were a lot faster than IE. Nowdays almost everyone uses Chrome, Safari or Edge. Because Firefox is rather slow given the current competitors, not because the others ca…

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    Comment #36875798

    That won't happen. "Normies" don't care. At all. They just want the fastest thing and are happy to watch ads popping up all 5 minutes all day.

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    Comment #36875755

    I assume you don't have to click them anymore nowadays? Should be fairly simple to find a correlation between ads shown to users and products sold, no?? I guess tracking solves thi…

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    Comment #36874091

    > and few distractions I think there are not many people that have few distractions. It's a (very very hard) decision to force yourself getting rid of them or ignoring them. Distra…

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    Comment #36873957

    I'd say that's what the README page is for that you can create and gets shown at the top of your profile. I summarized my most important projects, the languages I know and some oth…

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    Comment #36873943

    I always linked my gitlab profile in all my applications. If I had any code on it which might be relevant to the position I also mentioned it in my cover letter. Barely anyone ever…

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    Comment #36861606

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    Comment #36861101

    >Try using ChatGPT like you use Stack Overflow instead (i.e. the question is "How would I record an audio stream to disk in Python" rather than "write me an application / function …

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    Comment #36861071

    It needs vim-motions tho

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    Comment #36859282

    Yes, someone tested it on GPT-4 for me too and that actually gave a quite decent reply. Still, there are always some cases somewhere where it messes up. I'll just keep an eye on AI…

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    Comment #36858459

    I haven't. Because (free, as in free beer) chatGPT is extremely slow, I have to make a rather extensive proompt to get the result I want to, and then I still have to debug most cod…

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    Comment #36858392

    Interesting you mention this. I remember that the old Kaufland and Real where I usually went to, when I was still living at my mom's place, had them for a very long time. But both …

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    Comment #36812252

    That's crazy. I never would've thought that either. These small facts which you can barely read in "mainstream media" are what makes the LHC absolutely fascinating and impressive. …

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    Comment #36798783

    Most likely i just have different habits, but I never really understood how people can cope with such a massive amount of tabs. I genuinely enjoy closing my browser after each day …

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    Comment #36770043

    > The reason is because localization is expensive and tedious and discriminatory. Just have both then? Text and Icon. Text in either the available localization, or in english if it…