cowbolt

It's called nonviolent communication. There are quite a few books on it but I can recommend "Say What You Mean: A Mindful Approach to Nonviolent Communication".

Seems you can't go anywhere these days without walking into an argument between a descriptivist and a prescriptivist.

It's interesting how easy it is to spot LLM-written text after you familiarize yourself with its general writing style (at least for the GPT-based models).

Imagine the literary possibilities when it can write 100%! Rowling's original work was an amusing, if rather derivative children's book. But Llama's version of the Philosophers stone will be something else entirely. Just think of the rather heavy-handed Cerberus reference in the original work. Instead of a rote reference to Greek mythology used as a simple trope, it will be filled with a subtext that only an LLM can produce.

Right now they're working on recreating the famous sequence with the troll in the dungeon. It might cost them another few billion in training, but the end results will speak for themselves.

The weather in Norway has always been warmer than its latitude would imply (compared to ex. Anchorage) due to the Gulf stream.

I'm in a similar situation to you. In my experience there are a lot of people these days who get the sense that they're falling behind despite feeling like they've done everything right. Tech in particular has been seen as "the right choice" for a while now, and it can be hard to come to terms with the arbitrary injustice of a market downswing, especially when it most severely affects new graduates. You follow the advice people give you, see the job offers and salaries your older peers are getting, and when it's your turn things are suddenly completely different. It's cruel!

I don't have any advice when it comes to realizing your dreams of a high-paying, high-status job, but I've dealt with a similar cynicism and volunteer work has been a great help. It's very, very easy to get caught up in the narrative of your own life, especially when you're surrounded by peers and family that subscribe to a similar narrative. Making a change in the lives of people who are struggling is a great way to feel good about yourself, and the perspective you'll get from talking to and understanding people in different circumstances to your own is very grounding and humanizing.

Norway and Denmark have national card schemes (BankAxept and Dankort) which are used for virtually all PoS transactions. They cost a fraction of the transaction costs that Visa and Mastercard charge. These arose by banks agreeing to a standardized solution.

Was there ever any attempt to do something similar in the US?

Maybe a bit pedantic, but Norway (founding member of NATO) shares a border with Russia, although the invasion concern is less pressing.

My understanding is that increasing the interest rate causes capital to be more likely to seek low-risk guaranteed returns. The effect of this is to disincentivize investments and economic activity in general, as capital is more likely to be "parked" in risk-free debt, rather than seeking other ways of reaching high yield. The unintuitive aspect of it is how inflation could reach 2% when capital has a guaranteed, risk-free way of generating 5%+ yield. But I suppose that could be explained by examining the growing economic inequality of the past 30+ years.

Clearly, but that doesn't mean it's a nice way to treat people.

>To clarify, I'm only talking about code in the same project that everyone has access to. I'm not talking about defining an API for other people to use that don't have access to the code, like when you make a library.

If you can see the use in access modifiers for libraries then it's not so hard to make the leap to its general usefulness. Defining objects with clear and simple APIs is extremely valuable when working on complex software projects. As the code base inevitably grows to a point where no one knows every part of it, you want developers to be able to contribute without having intimate knowledge of everything. The value proposition is the same as for third-party libraries.

FYI: Successful is written without two L's. Looks like a useful tool though :)