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[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

It gets better, but learning vocabulary at that level is going to feel very slow no matter what. I would recommend keeping a fairly low bar for just ignoring words and moving on, as keeping up the reading habit is by far the most useful. If reading feels tedious it's easy to lose interest.

One to two new words per page sounds high enough where you are bound to get repetition, so you may want to only look up words that seem either important for context or familiar (i.e. feels like something you've seen before) to get the most value. I combine that with spaced repetition (Anki) for words that I seem to look up often, but Anki has a bit of a learning curve so it may or may not suite you.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

This, and also working part time would become a lot more feasible. I would imagine there would be quite a bit of pressure to improve working conditions as well, which wouldn't exactly be a bad thing. A lot more hours would be spent on things people consider meaningful, and bullshit jobs would have to be compensated appropriately, which to me feels like a win for society collectively.

One caveat though is that for abolishing minimum wages to be safe the UBI has to be high enough to be actually livable, and would likely be a target of constant politicking. A model I've been thinking about would be to set the level of UBI as a percentage of GDP, distributed evenly across the population, which to me would feel fair but may have practical issues I don't see. It would create a sense of everyone benefiting from collective success, which appeals to me.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

If you are interested in a rather detailed analysis of Starlink in Ukraine, I highly recommend listening to episode 53 of the 'Geopolitics Decanted' podcast.

[–] [email protected] 185 points 10 months ago (5 children)

A corporation running a nuclear reactor to train AIs might just be the most cyberpunk news headline I've ever seen.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 11 months ago (3 children)

The six so-called “gatekeepers” are: Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, ByteDance, Meta and Microsoft.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

I run Pop_OS with a temperamental Nvidia GPU that is unstable at factory clock speeds, but solid when I reduce the power limit by 5-10%. The only recurring annoyance I have with pop is that the flatpak GreenWithEnvy breaks after every GPU driver update and requires a manual flatpak upgrade to fix.

Similarly for my work laptop also running pop on nvidia, the big frustration is again nvidia related. Battery life is poor since hybrid graphics doesn't work and external displays only work with the discrete graphics card.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

This APT has super cow powers

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

The link to the release page seems broken when opening from within Thunder (v0.2.1+8), it seems like it's getting url-encoded twice. Not sure if it's an issue with Thunder, Lemmy, or the link is just bad.

EDIT: Looks to be a Thunder issue, link is fine via web UI

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

That makes me think having something like "federated communities" could be neat, where a community on one instance could opt in to have content mirrored/visible from a community in another instance. In practice it would be something like subscribing to a community on one instance essentially being equivalent to subscribing to multiple communities on different instances, but if there is disagreement on e.g. moderation practices moderators might decide to "defederate" the communities.