I'm Dutch, but due to the large amount of English content I never really had an issue with English. While I struggled with German and Fr*nch, I never had to pay attention or study for English lessons. I just did what felt natural and ignored the homework etc. Not that I'm a great English speaker or anything, my vocabulary is sometimes a bit limited which makes me have to search for the right words to use. But when watching or reading I can follow pretty much anything. I also sometimes feel like I'm more resilient to accents than native English speakers, maybe because we get exposed to British and American English and therefore kinda learn a more generalized representation of the language? Idk, maybe that's not a thing
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When do I get my Arch socks? Also, I should try Nix based off this image (which is a trustworthy source of course).
Not sure tbh. I think I'm quite a bit above Dutch average, though definitely not amazing at it either. From these I'd know kitten, puppy, calf, foal, lamb, piglet, chick, cub and fawn. Though kitten, puppy, calf, and lamb are similar or equal to the Dutch word. No idea what "kit" is. But I wouldn't use some of these words myself because they're not really part of my normal speaking/writing vocabulary.
Really? That would surprise me a lot. Maybe it's a cultural difference, I'm not sure where you're from. I can't imagine that the majority of the people I know only brush once a day, I've never noticed anyone deviating from the normal morning/evening pattern. But I also haven't really paid much attention so maybe I just haven't noticed. How do people do that? I tend to notice quite quickly that I forgot toe brush because it feels yucky.
I've never even considered brushing my teeth under the shower? That seems unnecessary and impractical imo. I shower ever other day usually and I brush my teeth at least twice a day, but currently 4 times a day due to braces. I don't see how these 2 things align in terms of planning?
Uhmmm maybe it's because I'm not native English or just dumb, but this wording confused me greatly. I figured that young goat was the only interpretation that made sense since the image didn't show a human kid, but for non-native speakers like me it's a bit of a weird sentence.
When you don't care about the truth you don't have put so much energy into maintaining quality
Got me there
I think that when you "poison" your brain with easy dopamine like candy, fastfood, alcohol, drugs, endless scrolling, etc you will shift the internal goalpost of when something feels good. Compared to these easy sources of "joy", life just isn't that interesting. The scale changes to the point that normal things cannot longer provide enough jou to be worth it.
Personally I've been trying to constrain myself a bit on these easy sources of "empty happiness". Things that do give me joy without ruining my brain are, among others: running, music festivals, listening to nice music, looking back at something cool I made, making something cool, playing videogames, chilling with friends (though this usually involves alcohol). These things definitely don't reliably provide joy, Most of the times they're just "nice" but definitely not amazing. But every now and then I get hit with that dopamine rush and it's all worth it.
That's probably not too hard to detect based on IP. They only do it for some content though. The only content I watch that has this block is official Formula 1 content on YouTube. It's probably something that creators can enable when they want to region lock content or something
Up until now it was my student time, though I think this depends on personal circumstances and is different for everyone. Childhood was nice, but obviously limited in terms of freedom. Teens where decent, but not 100% great. Student life was easily the best for me, I'd constantly meet like-minded people, there were so many cheap or free activities, and people constantly said shit like "you guys are our future" etc. I also loved having well defined work and goals, limited scope, and lots of depth and interesting challenges. Now that I'm working it's usually very shallow work in terms of complexity, but with lots of communication and interdependencies. And it goes ever on because agile, no clear quartile or semester goals like university.
Now that I'm working I have the money, but I lost the easy access to like-minded people and fun activities. Organizing something with friends turned from "let's grab a drink this afternoon" into "let's align our agendas to find a free spot somewhere in 6 weeks". And programming turned from "here's a algorithm someone came up with that you can implement" to "the customer wants this button to do X, hi spend the next week implementing/testing/finding out its meant to work differently".
I'm a bit biased though, because I'm currently burnt out. Work life was decent for a bit, it just temporarily got worse and kinda pushed me over the edge. If anyone has tips I'd love to hear them :3
I mostly agree, though there is a biological clock to consider. Evening people can be evening people because of many reasons. It can be relative to the normal day schedule, defined by societal norms and the timezone, it can be relative to when other people are around, but it can also be relative to the natural clock which should be in sync with sunset/sunrise. This factor definitely matters, we just moved the clock one hour backwards here and it's completely fucking me up.
Do you think these massive companies will add even a single line of code for something and insignificant as this? Also that one string replace maymess with Icelandic text which actually uses it.
I think these 2 factors actually make it sort of useful. As long as not too many others do this exact thing, it makes the comments with the thorn in English enough of an anomaly to probably do more harm than good to the training of the LLM. And therefore the comments are not being used in any useful way for "AI" training.
There are some accessibility and readability concerns tho, and it's also a bit of a weird thing to do. But it might just kinda work
Then at least it's their own fault
Having a career. At home though, nothing :3
I bought an analog camera (Canon EOS 300) for like 15 euros at a thrift store a year ago and luckily it worked. It has kinda kick-started my interest in photography. Analog photography is quite expensive tho, so a better recommendation would be to buy a cheap used DSLR. Personally I bought a Canon EOS 40D at MBP for like 80 euros, but anything like it would probably be fine.
A camera from 2008 doesn't sound like something that would still be relevant today, but honestly it's a great device. It's kinda like an old manual car in camera form. If you know what you're doing you can absolutely take amazing photos with it. It has all the buttons and options you might need, just not the fancy new stuff like face tracking autofocus, sensor stabilisation, EVF, etc.
My dad (who is a more professional photographer) let me use his professional grade lenses on this thing and the results are absolutely stunning. But even something like Canons 50mm lens is very decent. Will it beat anything modern? Probably not. But you sure can learn and take stunning pictures with it. Since then I got a more modern camera as well, but honestly the 40D still keeps surprising me. It takes a bit more effort to get something good, but it is also super rewarding.
Okay but does that matter? I recently saw a video from Veratasium about teflon and there they mentioned that teflon is too large to be absorbed by the body, it just comes out on the other end. It's the smaller compounds used for producing teflon that are poisoning our water, bodies, and everything else with PFAS. Companies just dumping this poison into our water supply. If this is false I'm open to learn ofc.
I have the same. I've been considering using my "dumb" alarm clock as my primary alarm and moving my phone to the other side of my room or something and use it as a backup alarm. I usually spend that time scrolling around while lying in bed, might as well have slept longer. Sometimes I just keep on daydreaming which will not be solved by this fix tho.
Wtf. How did they not at the very least build in a reasonable safe state whenever the thing gets disconnected. Something like "keep current position, disable heating" or return to flat position.
But the more pressing question is: why does a bed have an internet connection? Who does this help? And why does it NEED an internet connection? Surely a few Back-up buttons for when the service eventually goes down isn't too much to ask? Who would buy such a thing?!
Oh really? I did have fun with the Outer Worlds. Nothing too amazing, but it was fun enough to keep me invested. Parvati was also a large reason for that, I loved her character.