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Part of this is a cultural issue. I completely understand why people struggle with addiction, smoking, obesity, stress, depression, and so on. I don't blame the people, but the current culture of cheap and fast food, stress, overworking, lack of time and/or energy for cooking, family, hobbies, and taking care of health. Many of these preventable diseases could be addressed by cultural changes and government care, which could decrease the cost of medical/nursing care.

, in 2021 the mean duration in Germany was 1 769 hours and 1 923 hours in Italy.

That is strange, by this chart the Italy have 1694 and Germany 1340. In Poland it is still 1814 in 2024 hours. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_average_a...

My friends and I would love to have 4/5 or 3/5 of working days with 4/5 or 3/5 of salary, but sadly I don't know any companies that offer that. I understand that it may be hard with meeting culture, but we can make 1 or 2 days with no meetings. I don't want to go back to the stress and uncertainty of freelancing; I want a predictable, safe income with simply scaled-back hours/pay. My salary (and my friends') in IT is 2-3 times more than the average pay, and 60/80% is more than enough to live comfortably

That explains this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Seven_Year_Itch idiom/movie with Marilyn Monroe

On the other hand you can use virtualisation easily and way more cheaply

A year ago, I bought a brand-new EVGA hybrid-cooled 3090 Ti for 700 euros. I'm still astonished at how good of a decision it was, especially considering the scarcity of 24GB cards available for a similar price. For pure gaming, many cards perform better, but they mostly come with 12 to 16GB of VRAM.

Could you please explain more about the Ref[2], what does it mean beyond what is in article and how serious is it? "These findings suggest that breath-hold diving training over several years may cause mild, but persistent, short-term memory impairments"

Can you tell more about recreational nitrous oxide and when does the "damage occur"? Is there the same thing with wim hof? (like for example with oximeter 80 Sp02 or below?) I got in wimhof/oxide around 80 Sp02 the interesting thing is I got this feeling with fighting to hold my breath but below 90 I kinda needed to convince myself that I should breath in both cases,

Interesting, can you provide more sources, about the dictators and stoicism, also Marcus Aurelius was he a tyrant, mass murderer, and courtier?

I mean, not really you don't need user data; I was doing something related with LLM (simply asking it) and planning to use vector databases for various tasks, like semantic search, similarity matching, clustering, and topic modeling. Later pivoted to doing something for podcasts (analysing transcripts).

I dream of a good recommendation system because Goodreads is completely terrible. I just want to know two things: which books are similar and which books I would like, beyond typical recommendations. Something akin to what platforms like VOD, YouTube, and Netflix offer. For me, this is the most important killer feature.

"One-set routines can achieve roughly 60–70% of the muscle growth that higher-volume (3–5 set) routines produce".

Do you have any source for that? I know Mike Mentzer and heavy duty programs, but the devil is in the details.

Yep, in my game it tried always to "save" player it was impossible for LLM to jail or kill a player to end a game. I had to explicitly end it by game logic, not by LLM.

I mean this isn't it fun to generate ancient rome/alice in wonderland/medivial Poland kind of the world?

I have solved it in my two games by using two systems in my future game: 1. LLM "text" info ,about world, player, text descriptions of world/decisions and so one. 2. Typical D&D stuff with rolls, names, details, decisions that are simple logic.

I don't think you're going to find an LLM with a large enough context window to have a meaningfully involving story spanning multiple sessions

You don't need to provide every single previous information to llm, use LLM to summarise previous ones and it gets really compact. It works quite well.

I've created two AI LLM D&D-style games. The second one will soon be released as a D&D-style game with Visual Novel elements (AI-generated images_. Here's how I can address some common concerns from comments above:

    Lack of Human and Social Interactions: This is a significant drawback when you look it as the social thing, however, they require scheduling. For me I wanted to venture beyond the typical fantasy/sci-fi settings and good bored of those D&D/warhammer world.

    LLM Versatility: LLMs can take you on wild (now non-NSFW) adventures. I wanted to play a D&D-style game set in the Venetian Renaissance and GPT delivered with accurate locations, families, and artists. It can do the same with medieval settings from my country, ancient Rome, surrealist landscapes, and whatever your favorite books, movies, or games involve.

    Customization: Want a game master who replies in poetry, slang, in style of you favourite author? No problem.

    Context: This is a tough one, but there are two approaches:
        Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)
        Summarization, and then summarization of the summary. I've used this approach in my previous startup and in this game.

    Characters: I utilised the randomness of different character styles. You might meet smart/beautiful/evil/good characters with predefined styles, and the LLM quite effectively supports roleplay.

    Lack of Continuity: The biggest downside is the lack of continuity. Even if I generate a world and scenario, after a few rooms, it doesn't come together like a game would, where previous events feed into current ones, even when I provide again LLM with previous details. I kinda lack big picture design of story. I am working on that

The issue for me is privacy, practically all AV are root level spyware, you don't know what are they sending or how, EULA are nightmarish. They can send logs, files to outside server because so, the code is not available or even opt out of diagnostics. They monitor browser data and send it to outside servers.

I mean I can't say all of them do it, but most of them and those I have checked out. Examples: https://www.tomsguide.com/news/avast-avg-data-collection

For paid one lets look for EULA (that one mentioned above with VB100 100% Detection ) eset

https://help.eset.com/eav/18/en-US/eula.html >b) Forwarding of infiltrations and information to the Provider. The Software contains functions which collect samples of computer viruses and other malicious computer programs and suspicious, problematic, potentially unwanted or potentially unsafe objects such as files, URLs, IP packets and ethernet frames ("Infiltrations") and then send them to the Provider, including but not limited to information about the installation process, the Computer and/or the platform on which the Software is installed and, information about the operations and functionality of the Software ("Information"). The Information and Infiltrations may contain data (including randomly or accidentally obtained personal data) about the End User or other users of the Computer on which the Software is installed, and files affected by Infiltrations with associated metadata ... >For the purpose of this Agreement, it is necessary to collect, process and store data enabling the Provider to identify You in compliance with Privacy Policy

In smaller companies you can negotiate it as my friend did.

There is some stigma around "diy sabbaticals" (leaving job without new one), my fiance and family was quite surprised and frustrated for proposing to leave a "high paying job where I don't have a lot of work/stress" without new one in toughy developer market with lot of layoffs.

Yes, but I think this and (un)paid sabbaticals may attract a elite talent that is in short supply (at least in the US). But then again this is my speculation.

I agree, but the charities programs I applied only need the marketing/seo or wordpress guy. Most charities don't have a need for the programmers.

I don't mean state intervention as most programmers are quite privileged, but a company that creates something like skunk works for people for burned out people

They can pay because they had make a mistake or don't have a knowledge. For example I was working with a team of 6 creating a project for a bank that was discontinued after 3 months, without any reason and code was simply deleted.

I wish there was a job for burnout people something like:

1. meaningful

2. high impact

3. high authonomy

4. safe (low pressure, stress, etc.)

5. creative

And counterbalance it with lowpay to please market dynamic, something like a work for people with disabilities or requiring special assistance (which is done quite good in EU). I did try open source/own project, but the pay isn't guaranteed and I would like to pay the medical insurance/state pension and some basic (minimum wage) income to simply have peace of mind.

Tinnitus can also be caused by tumour (Vestibular schwannoma https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vestibular_schwannoma). I sometimes hear high pitched sound (like hiss) in my left ear and have hearing loss of higher frequencies. I was luckily that it was discovered at MRI with contrast. You can treat it with gamma knife ( Radiosurgery ), but sadly in my case it quite near the nerve, so I can't do it, but lucky it is too small for surgery and isn't malignant. So currently I have to simply go to MRI yearly and observe.

(After party i got quite sick with bacterial infection, and that caused me to go few doctors, one I think sixth doctor audiologist recommended to me MRI, as this is quite rare)

At EU there is a tax issue so you pay money + 23% VAT.

It isn't consider a gift as you a gaining something (access to page) so you need to pay tax on that.

This is one thing that bothers me with patronite and other platforms. I wish I could simply send a gift (without acces to anything) and not to pay another tax on already taxed money.

In some techno clubs they put a sticker to your camera lens, so you know that you aren't recorded

Do you have a link to that?

Can you recommend something similar to tao the ching? I don't mean anything like tao of pooh/new age stuff/alan watts, but similar in the spirit of tao.

I started with text file, which is often the best way for me for any management thing as JIRA/tools get too complex and I often miss things in UI Text file was also great as it was straight in my IDE and I could move it to done at the bottom of the page. Now I migrated to Asana/kanban, becouse text file got to big, but only after half of year of development.

Make Something People Will Pay For.