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Charlie_26··on 25 years of studying the brain: Avoid these 4 habits that destroy our memory
How wide a timeframe determines multitasking? To me it is watching a YouTube video when you should be coding and possibly shitposting on Teams all at once. The code is never good, and you have a nagging feeling that you should turn the video off. It maybe works for more repetitive things like tweaking large xml files with repeating patterns.

On the other hand, consider a coder who also is trying to make it with a music career. Setting time aside to practice and reach out to open mic nights or other opportunities can’t be multitasking can it?

But as soon as ADHD comes into play, you’re looking at music opportunities when you should be refactoring some badly written class. Right back into multitasking.

Charlie_26··on How I got scammed on Facebook Marketplace (2023)
So for eBay, am I safest using PayPal? Or a Credit card?
Charlie_26··on I used to not worry about climate change. Now I do [video]
> So, I've learned to take this in stride, like with gun ownership: most gun deaths in the US are suicide. As more and more gun owners shoot themselves, this is the only mitigation to this crisis.

I’m sure you’re being facetious, but don’t the suicidal people buy guns? It’s not that gun owners are suicidal

Charlie_26··on GTA 5 actor goes nuclear on AI company that made a voice chatbot of him
And another thing > no AI is going to replace your Daniel Day Lewises. Your Tilda Swintons. These people are real human beings who are perfect on screen without AI adjustment.

I’m a good actor too btw.

Charlie_26··on GTA 5 actor goes nuclear on AI company that made a voice chatbot of him
I so want you to be right, but do you know what ‘enshitification‘ is?
Charlie_26··on GTA 5 actor goes nuclear on AI company that made a voice chatbot of him
It’s all about brands and recognisability
Charlie_26··on GTA 5 actor goes nuclear on AI company that made a voice chatbot of him
Messaged you on IG!
Charlie_26··on GTA 5 actor goes nuclear on AI company that made a voice chatbot of him
Nice to meet you. We need to make an AI agent that gets us all the work. I’ll send you a message.
Charlie_26··on GTA 5 actor goes nuclear on AI company that made a voice chatbot of him
I don’t believe it’s the inevitable yet. What if it’s shit and you don’t want to see hundreds of AI extras? Never mind an AI Tom Cruise (who won’t be getting any academy awards if he’s entirely computer generated).
Charlie_26··on GTA 5 actor goes nuclear on AI company that made a voice chatbot of him
I’m an actor and a software developer. And AI replacing us (the nobodies, the extras, ie not Tom Cruise) scares the shit out of me. Long live the theatre I guess.
Charlie_26··on GTA 5 actor goes nuclear on AI company that made a voice chatbot of him
I’m guessing you’re not an actor?
Charlie_26··on Several piracy-related arrests spark fears of high-level crackdown
Watch Wolfhall if you haven’t
Charlie_26··on Why Git Is Hard
I feel sort of in the same boat, at least from reading this blogpost. Though it might be time for me to master fetch rather than pull. What I wonder is how anyone (read: most people) get by with using GUIs for Git that tend to abstract some of these fundamentals away
Charlie_26··on Kelly Rowland couldn't have used the =HYPERLINK() function to message Nelly
Did many people at the time clock this? I think we forget that spreadsheet applications weren't always so commonplace outside of the people in your household that worked with a computer.
Charlie_26··on France passes bill to allow police remotely activate phone camera, microphone
Not getting that sentiment from a slogan that says all cops are bastards. If “policing is fundamentally broken” is the statement then use that
Charlie_26··on Tell HN: Nearly all of Evernote’s remaining staff has been laid off
Do any permit a transfer-in from Evernote?
Charlie_26··on Vincent van Gogh's paintings and drawings
Cool, now that they’re digitised we can cover them in soup
Charlie_26··on The world’s oldest ultramarathon runner is racing against death
Well shit, can he run fast without the scythe?
Charlie_26··on Show HN: The Fuck Cards – make a card for a friend or enemy
Okay I get it now
Charlie_26··on Facing brutal climate math, US bets billions on direct air capture
What is Charm?
Charlie_26··on Show HN: The Fuck Cards – make a card for a friend or enemy
I don’t understand the concept and the music embarrassed me at work
Charlie_26··on Crab crisis in Bering Sea a sign of ‘borealization’
I don’t eat fish. It does work.
Charlie_26··on Google’s fully homomorphic encryption compiler – a primer
I may have misread the title and thought that was one bigoted compiler
Charlie_26··on QuestPDF: Modern .NET library for PDF document generation
I’m planning on using Forms9Patch to get this working for a Xamarin project.
Charlie_26··on Ask HN: Do you read news daily?
Reading the headlines of my favourite newspaper’s front page website gives me anxiety. However, taking the time to read the paper, stories I’m interested in, paragraph by paragraph, is a rare and satisfying treat, where I leave feeling much more informed.
Charlie_26··on Google refuses to reinstate account after man took medical images of son’s groin
No way in hell I’m clicking that lmfao
Charlie_26··on Google refuses to reinstate account after man took medical images of son’s groin
https://photoprism.app/. I don’t work for these guys. I heard good things
Charlie_26··on Google refuses to reinstate account after man took medical images of son’s groin
Surely a GDPR violation at the very least
Charlie_26··on Google gives Europe a ‘reject all’ button for tracking cookies
And does it actually reject them? And is it available on the Android app?
Charlie_26··on Uranus should be NASA’s top planetary target – report
NASA, you'd be welcome any time
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