This is a blast from the past! I remember being really young and buying a GPU based solely on what art was on the box (and yes, it was a scantily clad woman) and getting really, really luckily that it actually worked with my components but it was my intro to upgrading PCs!
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lethologica commented on Liquid Glass Is Cracked, and Usability Suffers in iOS 26 nngroup.com/articles/liqu... · Posted by u/uxjw
I suppose an upvote should be sufficient, but I am so unhappy with the new UI I am actually holding off switching to a new M4 MBP and sticking to my old M1 still on Sequoia 15.7.1. I also try to give these things time and I am usually ok with the changes eventually, but the new UI elements are so incredibly distracting it's actually affecting my ability to focus on what I'm actually doing.
I just bought a M4 MBA, my first since a 2014 MBP. I absolutely hated the 26 update on my phone and iPad but honestly don’t even notice it on my MacBook.
This. I had this long standing dispute that I just never had the energy to look up what needed to be done to resolve it. I just told it to ChatGPT and it generated everything -- including the emails I needed to send and who to send them to. Two weeks later and it was taken care of. I had sat on it for literally 3 months until then.
If I could have something that said, "Here are some things that it looks like you're procrastinating on -- do you want me to get started on them for you?" -- that would probably be crazy useful.
I have ADHD and it almost acts as a body double for me, which I find to be incredibly helpful to get things done.
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On iOS:
Highlight text, select convert, see conversion:
But the real solution is for Americans to stop using dumb units.
Holy crap, I never knew that was a thing. Thank you!
lethologica commented on Vibe coding has turned senior devs into 'AI babysitters' techcrunch.com/2025/09/14... · Posted by u/CharlesW
As an experienced dev who’s gotten his feet wet a little with AI, I feel like , and does anyone else feel this way, that I spend more time telling AI what to do than it would spend actually writing this all out myself?
Not a dev but I’ve had similar experiences testing AI to help me craft various documents.
I spend ages crafting the perfect prompt only to cross my fingers and hope that the output is what I want it to be when I could have just spent all that time actually crafting the document exactly as I want it to be in the first place. Often I then need to spend more time editing and tweaking the output from the AI anyway.
I’m honestly starting to feel a little crazy because I’m the only one at my workplace that sees it this way.
lethologica commented on ADHD drug treatment and risk of negative events and outcomes bmj.com/content/390/bmj-2... · Posted by u/bookofjoe
With continuous use or a one-time dose? What was the dosage?
A one time, 5g “heroic dose” did the trick for me. I’ve had a few more trips at that dose since that initial one but mostly because there’s a whole lot for me to explore in that space, rather than me trying to “cure” something.
It took me as a real surprise when, after that first trip, all my ADHD symptoms simply vanished, never to reappear.
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Psilocybin “fixed” my ADHD right up.
lethologica commented on Duolingo CEO tries to walk back AI-first comments, fails htxt.co.za/2025/05/duolin... · Posted by u/_p2zi
Agreed. Even Seedlang was of limited use to me past a certain point, I just think it did a much better job at the same niche as Duolingo.
For me as someone who has never taken actual German courses, the biggest thing that contributed to my fluency was just listening to podcasts in German non-stop. Didn't matter if I wasn't understanding anything for months and months at the start.
I think the listening played a huge role in familiarizing my brain with wide swathes of the language. It made it so that when I learned other things later on, instead of being actually 'new', it was things I recognized and already had a sort of 'feel' for by association, even if I didn't know what it actually meant.
It was really cool watching as I went through a bit of a 'phase-change' at one point where one week I felt like I wasn't understanding more than few words per sentence and not able to actually follow conversations without looking stuff up, and then the next week it suddenly 'melted' and I was able to bridge the meaning between words and was actually understanding and following entire conversations.
My German still isn't perfect, especially my grammar and I probably should take some courses for that though. But I am at least fluent which is great.
That's called Brain Soaking :)
This whole game is so stupid to me. It really feels like the employer is trying to screw over the potential employee before they’ve even joined.
My default answer to these questions is now “what’s your budget?” And if they return with a non answer, or try and push me to give a number without giving one themselves, I walk.
I can’t think of anywhere else where the seller (in this case the employer “selling” a position) of something hides the price and expects the buyer (the potential employee) to magically come up with number that meets their criteria.
What a dumb game we’ve developed for ourselves.
For a laugh I used grok to generate a 35,000-word slop novel, it took twenty prompts and a few hours, it even threw in a nice cover. From there it would have took me another 30 minutes to release it as an ebook on Amazon under a different pen-name. This is what I and the world of indie authors are up against. It is already hard for non-established authors, this may be the final nail in the coffin for most. My first book is now free, but good luck anyone ever finding it.
Get what you’re saying but hasn’t that always been the case without extensive marketing and promotion?
My understanding that writing and finishing the book is just the start. Then you need to sell the thing.