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  • What the fuck is that supposed to mean. This is just plain racism, unless we're missing some very important context. But I doubt it, because he's said stuff like this before according to the article.

  • I usually use wireless headphones nowadays, but there are still plenty of instances where I'm happy to have the headphone jack. Random parties where someone needs to play music via the aux cable, going somewhere with only some small wired headphones in my pocket because I dont have space, etc. For me it's still quite important that my next phone has one.

  • Tea doesn't really seem to affect me, maybe makes me slightly more alert. The same goes for most other caffeine drinks. However coffee really messes me up. One or two cups of coffee make me feel stressed and worn out the entire day. It makes my throat hurt, and makes my body feel drained and weak. Some of these effects persist even with caffeine free coffee, so it's probably not the caffeine.

  • Hmmm nope. That sounds like hell indeed

  • Firefox. I used to be an avid Chrome user, but the domination of Chromium-based browsers (Chrome, Edge, Brave, Opera, Vivaldi, etc) is scary. It essentially gives Google control over what happens on the internet. So I switched to Firefox and it's been a great browser ever since

  • Time might not totally be money, but they're definitely in a balance. I'm currently working 40 hours a week, but considering working less. That'd also lower my wage though, obviously. Beyond that I also notice that I tend to be much more likely to spend more money to safe time (i.e. paying the bicycle shop to fix my bike tire instead of fixing it myself). More and more I'm noticing that up to some limit time is money and money is time. And so I'm going to have to put a value on my (free) time.

  • People here are taking this way too seriously lol. I love Python, and I never really had any issues with the indentation being used instead of curly braces or something. This is just a silly meme, not a personal attack

  • I don't. My mind always wanders into all kinds of stories the moment it's slightly disengaged with whatever is happening around me. Whenever I'm cooking, travelling, showering, or whatever my mind always has the urge to come up with stories. When I want to sleep, I just lie down and let it take off wherever it wants to go. Usually it slowly devolves into chaos over the course of 5-30 minutes until I'm asleep. The trick is to not question whatever it comes up with too much, but instead to just let it go.

    There are these nights where my thoughts do keep me awake though. Usually when I'm emotional about something. Idk what to do in that case. Usually I either just try to distract myself until the emotion dies down a bit, but I have no good remedy.

  • Okay but what do you propose? Have everyone who wants to live in the west come over here and get citizenship? I wish that everyone would have the same level of prosperity as we have here, but that'll have to happen by making them richer, not by letting everyone move into the green area.

  • Running. My brain struggles to start with anything that requires a lot of actions to get started. Going to the gym, for instance, requires me to grab my stuff, bike to the gym, change clothes, and then keep switching exercises. Any of these actions require me to get over a mental "bridge", and can thus cause me to stop.

    With running I change clothes, put on shoes, and just start running. I can be outside very quickly, before my brain realizes what's really going on. And once I'm going it seem to cost me more mental energy to stop than to keep going. So for my brain it's perfect. Barely any setup and almost no "bridges" to cross.

  • Yeppers. It triggers the brain to feel the big happy. Usually I'm not too happy when I try to start moving or when I'm just moving. But once I'm running I'll usually have some point between 0-3km where it starts feeling good. And from there on out it keeps feeling good even if I'm tired.

  • Yeah this. Max is insane right now, which I can definitely appreciate in a way. Behind him it feels like there's complete chaos. It varies every week which teams/drivers are competing for podiums. It's so enjoyable to see the race behind Max unfold. Everyone seems to be able to get into the points, although Alfa Romeo, Haas, Alpha Tauri and Sargeant generally struggle a bit.

  • Me when playing Satisfactory. Although I'd rather have a bit of a flatter area

  • I've only played Mario Kart on the DS, but I played it a ton. I almost always picked Dry Bones. Something about him in the generic cart just felt right in terms of handling etc.

  • I had 10-ish beers yesterday and I can tell you now: no amount of anything would have granted me the ability to run at this point in time. I actually did consider it yesterday, but that was a completely unrealistic idea. More water earlier on the evening would've helped tho.

  • You're allowed to post later, though this will be visible with your post. Tbh I like it until now. It's a good way to engage with my friends now that I only see them a few times a month. The friends I have on BeReal are generally respecting the rule that you either post at the moment BeReal asks you to or at the nearest moment where it's okay to so. I won't post at work, at the toilet, or in the shower or something. But I will do so after those moments of I'm doing something mundane like washing the dishes or cycling home. You'll generally just get a sense of what your friends' life's like like normally, as well as the fun things they do like traveling or visiting some event.

  • But it's true. These AI models are not some big database where every piece of information is stored and can just be removed whenever you desire.

    Imagine you almost got hit by a car while crossing the road as a child. That memory influenced your decisions from there on out, you learnt to always look before crossing, and over time your brain literally got wired differently because of that incident. Suddenly 20 years later the law requires you to remove that memory from your brain because apparently it was private data. How do you do that? It's not a single data point that just hangs around in your brain. Even if you could remove that memory, it still has compound effects on who you are and what you do. There is no removing that memory in such a way that all its effects on your brain are completely gone. It's exactly the same for these AI models. The way this one private data point affected the model parameters cannot be reverted unless you retrain the entire thing.

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  • Seems to happen to me every now and then. I've had a couple of moments where I was really on the edge of dreaming and could pretty much fully think about what was going on. But I still had to go with the flow a little bit because otherwise I'd slowly snap out of it. I'm curious if the tendency to end up in lucid dreams also makes me vulnerable to sleep paralysis. I've had it a few times, mostly when lying on my back, and it's very scary

  • I got a Dopper watter bottle at work 2 years ago, which I'm still using. It mostly metal, apart from the removable top part and the lid. Before that I had a plastic Dopper, but I like the metal one more. Before that I used to just re-use whatever soda bottle I could get my hands on, which was apparently a bad idea because they're not made for continuous re-use.

    I haven't used any other bottle, but I have no issue with the Dopper bottles. They're quite strong, haven't leaked so far, can hold enough water (for me) and fit in my bags.