testtestabcdef's comments

>But I can’t look up in a book how precisely psychotherapy fixes depression.

Well, you can for CBT. CBT goes by the assumption that a lot of depression comes from negative thoughts and it tries to change the way you think and therefore the way you feel. And CBT is the most scientifically backed up form of psychotherapy. So it looks like that works.

Sure, we don't fully understand the brain yet, but we are making progress.

I tried that too, but it's just not practical. Even just going without gApps is difficult, but doable. Having some sort of encrypted messenger (like Signal) seems kinda necessary in times like these, especially to communicate with others who do not have the same mindset.

My solution is to have as few Apps as possible (I mainly use my smartphone just for texts and calls) and """just""" stop using it all the time, even just leave it at home on purpose sometimes. My screen time is well under 1h per day and that feels really good. I even resist having my mail accounts on my phone, which has two reasons: Not checking it all the time and a little bit security, since no one could access them if i'd lose my phone.

Oh, also one main factor for me was music. I am just very very sensitive to noises around me, especially when programming, so I need to have my NC headphones on while at work. Otherwise I'd go crazy.

Just a few more months then people will stop talking about it, as usual.

>And when every other aspect of your life is being increasingly optimized by and for others, it is a small revolutionary act to be inconvenient.

That hit me. People often ask me why I do things so "inconvenient". Why do I not order everything online? Why do I not regularly order Pizza, but literally go into the restaurant (alone)? In short: Why do I sometimes (not always) take the long, hard route? Why do I scroll through the Gigabytes of Music on my HDD, to search for little gems, then to just let spotify recommend me the next best thing?

I think the answer, for me, is to just live in that moment and enjoy it. People often complain that they don't have enough time, but there is plenty of time, you just have to use it. Yes it can be inconvenient, but it feels liberating for me, even if it's on a very very small scale. Be more inconvenient.

Because both were a lot faster than IE. Nowdays almost everyone uses Chrome, Safari or Edge. Because Firefox is rather slow given the current competitors, not because the others care more about privacy (Also because that's just what their devices come with)

That won't happen. "Normies" don't care. At all. They just want the fastest thing and are happy to watch ads popping up all 5 minutes all day.

I assume you don't have to click them anymore nowadays? Should be fairly simple to find a correlation between ads shown to users and products sold, no?? I guess tracking solves this case.

Also as others said, there are quite a few people who still click them or click the first ad-links in google searches

> and few distractions

I think there are not many people that have few distractions. It's a (very very hard) decision to force yourself getting rid of them or ignoring them. Distractions are everywhere. At some point you have to resist and move on.

I'd say that's what the README page is for that you can create and gets shown at the top of your profile. I summarized my most important projects, the languages I know and some other simple facts about me. Mainly because i have a lot of "trash" on my gitlab which is just for personal use (I am always unsure if i should keep that public anyways)

I always linked my gitlab profile in all my applications. If I had any code on it which might be relevant to the position I also mentioned it in my cover letter. Barely anyone ever mentioned my gitlab projects or ask things about it. Just this one guy, he was confused that my master thesis was stating I handed it in in 2021 and asked why i didn't have a job yet. Thanks to this man I found out there is a typo on the cover of my thesis, because i handed it in 2022.

It was kinda embarrassing, but I also felt joy that there are actually people out there who look at my stuff. The job didn't fit, but it was still a good experience.

So yeah: Investing a few minutes in writing up a personal readme which gets shown on my gitlab was worth it. I can recommend!

>Try using ChatGPT like you use Stack Overflow instead (i.e. the question is "How would I record an audio stream to disk in Python" rather than "write me an application / function which...").

That's my point though. I get, that it can produce quite good results, if you are specific enough. And for some applications it makes sense to take your time and describe that as much as possible.

Most of the time I just need some small snippet though and usually I can get that with just a few keywords in my favorite search engine, which is way faster. So the conclusion is: There is no one or the other. They should be used complementary, or atleast that's what I am doing (as in use the search engine for quick hints and chatGPT for some more verbose stuff 'write me a parser for this csv in awk'.)

It needs vim-motions tho

Yes, someone tested it on GPT-4 for me too and that actually gave a quite decent reply. Still, there are always some cases somewhere where it messes up.

I'll just keep an eye on AI progress, but will probably not make it my goto for some time. Maybe later (whenever that is)

I haven't. Because (free, as in free beer) chatGPT is extremely slow, I have to make a rather extensive proompt to get the result I want to, and then I still have to debug most code.

That's not very convenient, atleast for now. I got so used to search engines by now, that it only takes a few keywords to get the expected result. Be it a SO-answer or a documentation page. And as people have mentioned, chatGPT was learned on the stuff that's on the internet, so if there will never be any new stuff, because people just use AI, then it will not learn and won't answer your new questions. For some edge cases I might try AI here or there, but usually it's not for me.

Hell, there comes even an example to my mind. I recently just asked chatGPT what a single-issue 5 stage pipeline on a CPU actually means. I wanted to know if, especially, the "single-issue" meant that only one instruction is present in the pipeline at a time, or if a new one gets shifted in on every clock cycle (if there is no hazard). It just couldn't answer it straight-forward. It was also kinda hard to find the exact definition on the internet. I found it in a book from the 90s which was chilling in my book shelf (Computer architecture and parallel processing by Kai Hwang). Hint: Single-issue just means that only one instruction can be in one stage at a time, but still multiple get processed inside the pipeline. The keyword is 'underpipelined'

Interesting you mention this. I remember that the old Kaufland and Real where I usually went to, when I was still living at my mom's place, had them for a very long time.

But both stores have been rebuilt, so I guess they got rid of it.

That's crazy. I never would've thought that either. These small facts which you can barely read in "mainstream media" are what makes the LHC absolutely fascinating and impressive.

I was always like "Yeah that's just a small beam and the magnets are to navigate it in circles". In retrospect it does make sense now why people were concerned about the collision of such beams.

Most likely i just have different habits, but I never really understood how people can cope with such a massive amount of tabs. I genuinely enjoy closing my browser after each day (or maybe just before a break) and starting with a fresh session, no saved sessions for me. For me this has three main benefits

- Less RAM, obviously, while this is not very important it's just nice to have.

- My Attention is directed to the things that I actually need right in that moment

- Even though my booksmarks are more or less messy, I know where to place what, I know where I can find things I need and for the temporary stuff I just have one folder which I work through or sometimes just plainly delete.

I'd say my absolute maximum would be 50 tabs. I doubt, that I ever went above that.

The extension from the OP still sounds nice, even for my use case. Will look into that.

> The reason is because localization is expensive and tedious and discriminatory.

Just have both then? Text and Icon. Text in either the available localization, or in english if it's not there. KISS.