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by dgimla20 1y ago
I'm surprised Googles ad business stays afloat. It seems every video I watch on YouTube is preceded with a Grammarly advert, a service I have no use for and will not subscribe to/pay for in the future. I feel like Google should be
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by dgimla20 1y ago
Bloody hell. That name takes me back. I got started on web with Piczo (albeit moved on very quickly).
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by dgimla20 1y ago
I remember using Pocket briefly and wondering what the purpose of it was when you could just save bookmarks in any stock web browser.
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by dgimla20 1y ago
Any geography buffs able to explain why the greenspace in Northern Africa seems to ebb and flow across this time period? That looks quite interesting but I can't seem to find anything about it.
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by dgimla20 1y ago
This is a good technique but I fear YouTube will always try to sway us away from our interests, and towards what they are soft-promoting. I've always wanted a YouTube which is basically just a searchbar, with results and just the video
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by dgimla20 1y ago
I guess societal collapse was a bit melodramatic of me. I guess I just wanted to vent a bit. It's just sad that we live with such a hijacking force in our pockets and that seems to be having an adverse effect on the way people handle t
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by dgimla20 1y ago
I really think society is sleepwalking into a ton of problems with mass media consumption (mostly by the phone, and of which Instagram is one component). We are not supposed to be filling every gap in our lives with videos, games, music, an
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by dgimla20 1y ago
I read and write from a desktop PC at work. Echo the other person who replied. I can't stand virtual keyboards for writing anything as long as ... about this comment.
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by dgimla20 1y ago
> I too want to get paid 500k to sit on a bean bag, drink lattes, have office affairs, work a 3 hours day Unfortunately this was most of the lot that Google and others cut loose in the last layoffs. There was a few TikTok montages of &qu
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by dgimla20 1y ago
Is this just one of the top dogs at Stripe bigging up their own company? Surely it's common public opinion that most social initiatives and stances major companies take are entirely about publicity and reflect whatever they think the b
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by dgimla20 1y ago
Thanks for writing this. It's refreshing to see there's a bunch of us in the same boat. I think you've hit the nail on the head about the two worlds. My phone sits in my pocket most of the day and just comes out when I need i
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by dgimla20 1y ago
I must be going through some mental changes nowadays. I just want my computers and software to get their job done and go back to the real world as soon as possible. I feel sad about all the time I lost staring at screens growing up. I wonde
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by dgimla20 1y ago
Material Design v1 cracked it. It was simple to implement, simple to understand and simple to use. Minimal overheads with a clear content-first approach. "It's time to move beyond “clean” and “boring” designs to create interfaces
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by dgimla20 1y ago
There's more interesting things to a person than their drinking preferences.
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by dgimla20 1y ago
Why keep pursuing it if you don't like it in general? I don't like coffee. I've tried most of the variations over the years, and don't like any of them. So I don't drink it. The top comment and tons of others are pe
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by dgimla20 1y ago
I'm surprised you are the only person saying this. I don't like coffee, and I'm not going to keep drinking coffee until I like it (or become hooked on caffeine). It seems odd that so many people's first impression is to
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by dgimla20 1y ago
Yet another frontend for ChatGPT. You can do all of this on ChatGPT.
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by dgimla20 1y ago
It's a cool looking site, but these terminal style sites (seen a few of them from web developers and software types) look terrible on phones and tablets (keyboard constantly present), which is well over 60% of web traffic now. You have
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by dgimla20 1y ago
A lot of the time, you aren't even learning how to translate the sentence. It's more like you've recognised basic sentence structure (in your own language) and managed to make a sentence from: plants for week walk My every un
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by dgimla20 1y ago
The process of making decks and the SRS features Anki provides are some of the most effective ways to learn language (particularly vocab) behind learning (grammar) from books and language exchange with a teacher/native speaker. Duoling
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by dgimla20 1y ago
It's selling a lifestyle change, and one which is "easy" and fun. Once you're hooked in, they gamify everything to make you feel like you're doing well. There's the leaderboards, the daily streaks, the ba-ding
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by dgimla20 1y ago
Duolingo is an awful language learning tool (primary tool or only tool). Here is a Duolingo game. Translate the following into English: jvgug5 g54g 4g g45g ! g54 43 43r pgd0f Here are the words you need to drag and drop into order: fish to
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by dgimla20 1y ago
Why bother reinventing it? The only social apps that have ever been needed are basic chat apps (group or private) and tools for meeting up in real life (such as group chats). Everything else has always only ever been fluff.
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by dgimla20 1y ago
I'm not sure if I am or not. If it's not too much of a write-up, how might I be able to check? Is this something that can be changed in phone settings? Thanks for letting me know. I wasn't aware of this otherwise.
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by dgimla20 1y ago
I don't know why but that video on the homepage (third media item from top) split me up for how rude/brash it came across. The mans thrusting his palm out in front of the colleague, slapping the top of his alarm clock, the woman&#
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by dgimla20 1y ago
See Catching Features (first released around 2006) for the orienteering version of this. It still has weekly competitions with up to 100 or so regulars playing. As another commenter suggested, orienteering is great as a sport/running v
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by dgimla20 1y ago
Orienteering is a fantastic sport. I've been doing it my entire life. The orienteers I've known have been some of the brightest and fittest people I've ever met (going to Cambridge, Oxford), doing all sorts of interesting thi
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by dgimla20 1y ago
I set up a basic SQL table where I record the time spent on my phone (and other devices) based on the screen time data from StayFree (Android), and a little private webpage with a line chart and average statistics. It's pretty manual (
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by dgimla20 2y ago
This has confused me. I have the Oura with all of the features unlocked without subscription. I don't pay anything. I bought the ring a few years ago. Maybe they provided lifetime membership to older customers?
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by dgimla20 2y ago
I really hope the killer-app of genAI is not takeaway food prediction, nor porn.

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