Shugarl

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by Shugarl 10mo ago
I think the one problem about this train of thoughts is that it makes people overly willing to accept any kind of solution, as fast as possible, because what could be more important than protecting our children. It makes people completely
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by Shugarl 2y ago
I also have ADHD : 1) Anki is a life saver for interviews: in the short term, it helps me memorize and review stuff about the company in advance. In the long term, it helps me memorize IT related stuff, and even leet code exercise. This max
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by Shugarl 2y ago
Reading though your link, something felt... Wrong ? That's not even remotely close to be a study, that's an opinion piece that threw everything at the wall, relied mostly on self-report studies, it used figures to show how sex-rel
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by Shugarl 2y ago
Steam and Spotify proves that people are completely down to pay for creative content. I also regularly buy ebooks.
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by Shugarl 2y ago
> Pirate streaming sites aren’t exactly known for their quality, consistency, reliability, and ease of use. The great ones, that gets a lot of word of mouth recommandations, are definitely better in my experience.
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by Shugarl 2y ago
> web dev jobs going the way of the horse-drawn wagon Could you elaborate please ?
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by Shugarl 2y ago
What are your thoughts on this method so far ?
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by Shugarl 3y ago
> First, "slow-thinking" is really just a different way of expressing your thinking and you should begin by leaning into it rather than leaning away. Take time, allow yourself to pause to collect your thoughts. People often int
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by Shugarl 3y ago
What I do in those cases of to arbitrarily pick an order to do those things. (Likeliness to become urgent in the future, difficulty, unpleasantness, etc...) If I can't, I just pick a random order
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by Shugarl 3y ago
I've tried learning strategies rather than tactics, but it's significantly harder both to learn and to use. I've learned a lot about imbalances for example, but all of this knowledge goes out of the window whenever I start pl
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by Shugarl 3y ago
But things are a little trickier if they start targeting your employer
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by Shugarl 3y ago
That's debatable. The hardest thing about learning a new concept/idea is to get started. GPT lowers the barrier of entry, and you can use the knowledge you got to tackle other learning tools and fix the parts GPT got wrong.
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by Shugarl 3y ago
> but would you, the learner, be able to do re-enact the narrative better or even on the same level than the original author who posessed the knowledge on the topic? Maybe. The author needs to write in a way that makes the book digestibl
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by Shugarl 3y ago
I personally tend to think better when I'm away from the computer. Coding on the IDE helps me to experiment and quickly put something together that works. But thinking while writing things down or while walking is a slower process, so
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by Shugarl 3y ago
Who's the bunny character?
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by Shugarl 3y ago
Why ?
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by Shugarl 3y ago
Isn't that a false dichotomy? I think there's more possibilities than either walking out of the theater in the middle of your son's first movie and tell to the press how he's still far from being ready to make films, or
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by Shugarl 3y ago
I've only skimmed it, but doesn't the article you linked indicate that it is only true for severe/ life-threatening cases of COVID-19?
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by Shugarl 3y ago
GP didn't suggest to reject reality out of concern for others. He said we should make sure to be 100% certain of what the facts are before asserting what reality is to the public, especially when it comes to sensitive subjects. The al
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by Shugarl 3y ago
> Make people less fat by moving where the produce is in the store It doesn't? Not even a little bit ? Genuine question. One of the example of data exploitation I was given in university is that retail companies look for patterns in
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by Shugarl 3y ago
I'm replying a bit late, but : I just use a "Spin the wheel" kind of app.
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by Shugarl 3y ago
> Willpower needed to make decisions is a limited resource. The solution I found for that is to just let the tool I'm using make the choice for me. Then if I don't want to do what's been selected, I just ask for another pr
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by Shugarl 3y ago
I used habitica for years, and it's better than your average todo list apps, but it's like adding a whole layer of things to take into consideration on top of the things that needs to be done
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by Shugarl 3y ago
Where do you find the time to read past entries ? Writing them is so much time consuming
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by Shugarl 3y ago
I actually just "ignore" phone notifications. At any given moment, there's a dozen of them on my phone, and if a new one pop-up, I just let it stay there with the rest.
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by Shugarl 3y ago
Personal satisfaction. "Ooga booga, number get bigger" kind of thing
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by Shugarl 3y ago
I think you're right, but you're missing the point : There's nothing easy or instantaneous about knowing whether or not a fact is genuine. People can lie, can lie by omission, can try to influence your opinion by choosing car
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by Shugarl 4y ago
Well, I think there's a difference between something being answerable by ChatGPT, and someone being able to take that answer, understand it, and use it to deliver value. Moreover, while ChatGPT is really good, it can make mistakes, and
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by Shugarl 4y ago
To be honest, I highly doubt many people actually care about a worker's death, period. They'll be "shocked", then move on to the next bad news
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by Shugarl 4y ago
Thank you, as a data engineer, that's exactly how I feel about the various concept surrounding data engineering. Or at the very least, the way they're being explained.

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