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On a side note, they also sponsor projects to help with and care for feral cats and stray dogs in Mexico.
There might be some decent people with good intentions at those companies, but it all seems like some white vest marketing to me.
And any pet owner will confirm that veterinarians make good money. So for MARS to get into that market seems like a smart move.
Will check it out again.
Which is something I would like to avoid on things like birth certificates and such.
Obsidian has that. And is more extendable. That is why I switched.
For me, writing a note on multiple devices is the key feature.
I disagree. It is just that these now need a conscious decision from us. My thoughts are still private until I choose to publish them. My conversations are only interrupted if I allow them to be. We make eye contact when we decide to. The intimate moments with my partner are there when we create them.
True, it’s easy to loose that and growing up today, you need someone to show you that it can be done. Which is why I agree that we stand to loose that, but we are not there yet.
I find it difficult to put this in a precise statement.
At the same time, for me, kids and a partner who wouldn’t take my BS, where the push for me to get my stuff together. Otherwise I might have been one of those cardiacs arrest cases due to drug overuse.
That’s why I’m happily living with a family.
So, after getting sober at the end of my twenties, cleaning up things in my thirties (getting stable employment as a self taught, career changing web dev) and stopping to be a product of circumstances (thanks therapy) and my kids being old enough to have deeper conversations with (they are in the middle of their school age) I am now looking forward to actively design and realize the life I am living.
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I mean one thing is taking nude selfies and then posting them on my IG or whatever and the other is random stranger snapping pictures from far away. How would the latter turn up when someone is looking for me? Face recognition? Possible, but I don’t think we’re there yet, or?
The stress and FOMO of my twenties was gone. A certain Danny Glover quote regularly comes to mind.
Things and thoughts in my head are for the most part sorted out and now it’s time to play.
Sure, it’s different with certain responsibilities, but in the end you are yourself either way. The main point of your post, as I understood and agree with is true with it without kids. Because, as you said, success is measured in effort, not in lines of code or numbers on your watch.
We should be competing WITH each other, not AGAINST.
Now, I’m done with my thirties and the platinum age of my forties is dawning. Can’t wait.
It’s true that a product is never finished, there is always something else to add or take away. A project should have a definition of done, there should be a clearly defined point at which the project is finished. Some measurable points that once you reach them, you can say it’s over.
If you want to be a top notch programmer/artist/craftsman, you need to put in the hours.
I had to come to terms with this when I realized that I was not going to be a famous musician, because I didn’t put in the hours.
Now that I have kids, my priorities shifted and I want to put in the hours with my kids. Which means, I won’t put them into anything else. And I am mostly fine with that.
If someone else chooses differently, that’s their choice to make. With the accompanying consequences.
If you want to put in 60-80 hours a week into your work, that means that you won’t spend those 60-80 hours with your kids.
You might end up in history books, but that might mean you didn’t celebrate your kids scoring their first goal along the way.
Take your pick.
I know this is coming across very harsh and your reality most likely falls somewhere on the spectrum, but I am serious. Your time with your child is not coming back. Every day is a day with something they do for the first time and with some they do for the last time. I hope you take naps with them. It’s the one thing I miss the most.
Remember, nobody ever said on their death bed: I wish I had worked more.
Work will still be there when your kid grows up. And they will, faster then you’ll want them to.
I cope with this by shifting my priorities. I’m a husband first, father second and then some other things, one of them being an employee.
My private time is spend with private things and I have an employer who understands learning is part of the job description, so I am learning on company time.
And I work in a company that is living a culture of “together” instead of some kind of competition.
I have a clear defined career path within my company that I can advance at my own pace.
Of course, since I am not coding 12 hours a day, I don’t expect to ever win a coding Oscar. Good thing, there is none.
But I agree with the sentiment of creating urgency in sizable chunks. Good read, thanks.
Decide what kind of life you want to live, then find a job that supports that.
It’s not as sophisticated as you described, yet, but close.
In addition I can imagine that it is a matter of the training set. As of now, the AIs seem like jack-of-all-trades, so they know a bit of a lot of different styles and topics. But with Stable Diffusion being able to run locally, you could specialize it by training it with high detail on, let’s say, landscape photography. So then one might be able to direct the AI more precisely.
This whole debate reminds me of the early aughts, when digital music was said to kill all music. I predict a similar development here too.
Human graphic artists will adapt and the next generation will incorporate AI generated images into their tool kit.
It is about how to structure a unit about any given topic:
1. Presentation/ Introduction to the topic with examples 2. Explanation 3. Verification that topic was understood in theory 4. Practice with isolated exercises 5. Transfer new knowledge to personal context
So lectures, articles and such can serve as an introduction to a topic. Step 3 is difficult when learning on your own. I would suggest the Feynman method here. If you can explain it, you understood.
Then look for exercises. Tutorials are great here. Try to solve it on your own, then look at the (possible) solution.
Then lastly, go and using it in your own context, outside of a tutorial, will solidify your knowledge.
They give you the seeds, that are used to populate the images, so you can fine tweak an image by adjusting slight details in a prompt. It is really awesome.