Jrockwar

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 17 hours ago

In most of Europe, the prices of Model 3's match pretty well those of the Polestar 2. The difference in build quality between those two is night and day. The Tesla feels like a Chrysler/Dodge Neon in comparison, with leather being the only concession whatsoever to niceness.

The fact that in Europe somehow they're "premium" and not budget cars within their category blows my mind.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 18 hours ago

Also while they're repairable and they have that going for them, Google also promises 7 years of updates, so they're not even unique on that selling point.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

It's hip to like Kagi because it's not Google.

I think I stopped paying for Kagi at the third or fourth controversy I heard about, I can't remember which one. I wasn't exactly happy about the implication that paying for Kagi means giving money to the bigot founder of Brave.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Like the fediverse? Like SearxNG? Like Wikipedia?

I know you've said "almost", but there's a free search engine in there where you're not the product...

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Lol what's that back design...

👏DYNAMIC👏POWERFUL👏

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 week ago

I think maybe he's peeing on the bush?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago

Probably not. But that's what happens when you buy Things as a Service.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

The least unreliable LLM I've found by far is perplexity, in the Pro mode. (By the way, if you want to try it out, you get a few free uses a day).

The reason is because the Pro mode doesn't retrieve and spit out information from its internal memory bank, but instead, it uses that information to launch multiple search queries, then summarises the pages it finds, and then gives you that information.

Other LLMs try to answer "from memory" and then add some links at the bottom for fact checking but usually Perplexity's answers come straight from the web so they're usually quite good.

However, I still check (depending on how critical the task is) that the tidbit of information has one or two links next to it, that the links talk about the right thing, and I verify the data myself if it's actually critical that it gets it right. I use it as a beefier search engine, and it works great because it limits the possible hallucinations to the summarisation of pages. But it doesn't eliminate the possibility completely so you still need to do some checking.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 week ago

In reality you mean? Diversity, Equality and Inclusion.

In their minds, anything that isn't white, straight, cis.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I don't know why they keep insisting on live service with an upfront cost. The only way these games are successful is by having a fuckton of teenagers with no money to fill the lobbies and make it feel lively and worthwhile. The minute you add an initial cost, there's just not enough of a player base to support a game with microtransactions.

I'm not a business genius, but they don't have to learn from me. There is the very clear precedent of Kill the justice league that they're choosing to ignore!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It might be a different game, but I thought there would be flights too! Especially when they fight against the robot uprising of the year 2000.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

Coffee is a stimulant, which is known to help people with ADHD. In fact, ADHD drugs are also stimulants.

The productivity effect you describe is what many ADHD folks get with coffee. The brain finds it easier to focus under stimulants so you get more productive, and even relax a bit because of quieting your inner "running commentary" that keeps you jumping from one task to another.

However, that doesn't mean that ADHD makes you immune to caffeine or that stimulants can't have a stimulating effect on you. After 10 coffees, you'd feel jittery like the rest of mortals, and experience a caffeine crash afterwards, or find it harder to sleep at night - all of those are normal effects that caffeine has in the human body.

The other part to what you're describing is just normal caffeine tolerance. All drugs have this to some extent, but I find that it's rather easy to build tolerance to caffeine, and its effect feels smaller and smaller gradually over time. For me, the best way to avoid this is to limit my intake on weekends and/or not have 7 double espressos on workdays (which I've done way too many times and is not a good idea). If you don't have coffee for a month, the first one after that period will really have a strong effect.

I appreciate everyone's brain chemistry is slightly different, but for me, coffee doesn't make me very nervous or "buzz", but the biggest effect is that I focus better. If I start working in the morning and don't have a coffee, even if I feel awake, my brain will keep jumping from one task to another and struggle to maintain concentration and do anything useful. The first coffee makes that go away, it's like my brain "latches" onto tasks more easily. I can actually work on something for half an hour without going on a wild goose chase of "what is the best calendar app that also syncs notes to my phone" or whichever is the distraction of the day.

As a bit of an experiment, I would suggest for a few weeks you pay attention to these things to understand well the effect it has on you, and treat it (i.e. dose it) as a delicious medication. 😄

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