cowbolt

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by cowbolt 7mo ago
It's called nonviolent communication. There are quite a few books on it but I can recommend "Say What You Mean: A Mindful Approach to Nonviolent Communication".
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by cowbolt 11mo ago
Seems you can't go anywhere these days without walking into an argument between a descriptivist and a prescriptivist.
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by cowbolt 1y ago
It's interesting how easy it is to spot LLM-written text after you familiarize yourself with its general writing style (at least for the GPT-based models).
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by cowbolt 1y ago
Imagine the literary possibilities when it can write 100%! Rowling's original work was an amusing, if rather derivative children's book. But Llama's version of the Philosophers stone will be something else entirely. Just thin
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by cowbolt 2y ago
Azerbaijan is an ally of Turkey, whereas Armenia has historically been more aligned with Russia. As a result, the west (NATO) is fairly lenient with Azerbaijan when it comes to conflicts between the two countries, or is at least hesitant to
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by cowbolt 3y ago
The weather in Norway has always been warmer than its latitude would imply (compared to ex. Anchorage) due to the Gulf stream.
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by cowbolt 3y ago
I'm in a similar situation to you. In my experience there are a lot of people these days who get the sense that they're falling behind despite feeling like they've done everything right. Tech in particular has been seen as &q
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by cowbolt 3y ago
Norway and Denmark have national card schemes (BankAxept and Dankort) which are used for virtually all PoS transactions. They cost a fraction of the transaction costs that Visa and Mastercard charge. These arose by banks agreeing to a stand
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by cowbolt 3y ago
Maybe a bit pedantic, but Norway (founding member of NATO) shares a border with Russia, although the invasion concern is less pressing.
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by cowbolt 3y ago
My understanding is that increasing the interest rate causes capital to be more likely to seek low-risk guaranteed returns. The effect of this is to disincentivize investments and economic activity in general, as capital is more likely to b
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by cowbolt 4y ago
Clearly, but that doesn't mean it's a nice way to treat people.
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by cowbolt 4y ago
>To clarify, I'm only talking about code in the same project that everyone has access to. I'm not talking about defining an API for other people to use that don't have access to the code, like when you make a library. If y
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by cowbolt 4y ago
FYI: Successful is written without two L's. Looks like a useful tool though :)
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The Library of Babel(urbigenous.net)
2 points by cowbolt 6y ago|1 comments