[-] deeroh 5 points 1 year ago

Couldn't agree more. I grew up poor, and I've been lucky to find a well-paying job in my adult life. It makes me feel so good to be able to do the things for people that I couldn't do when I was younger. I love that quote too - that's totally true for me. I think I get more satisfaction out of being able to offer something than the person actually receiving the thing.

[-] deeroh 25 points 1 year ago

As a datapoint from the other side, my company (big tech) is holding the party line no matter what. Lower level engineer or director - if you don't come in the requisite number of days a week, you're out. It's a bafflingly short-sighted move, but company culture is more important than anything apparently.

[-] deeroh 7 points 1 year ago

I don't have an issue with AI-generated art as a concept. An artist friend of mine did a series of AI art that was really moving, and it wouldn't have been possible to do without AI. He was upfront about the use of AI and even incorporated it into the art itself.

My issue is masquerading AI-generated art as human-created. If I pay $60 for a book of art, I'm not just paying for the art. I'm paying for the time it took the artist to create these works, for the creativity they've cultivated over the years, and for ongoing support for them to be able to create more works like this in the future. We can debate how you value the worth of a good (ie if you have two identical dishes, one cooked carefully by a trained chef and another made by a machine, which is worth more?), but to me, it's not simply about the outcome.

[-] deeroh 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Paying $60 for a book whose art was generated using some text prompts, especially when I expected it to be human-made, feels like a slap in the face.

(And definitely, but I would argue that a human drawing on a screen with a brush tool is different than using a generative AI network to produce entire images via text)

[-] deeroh 13 points 1 year ago

I've been trying to follow, but clearly I missed it - anyone know if there's an iOS client in the works, or will this be Android only?

[-] deeroh 5 points 1 year ago

It's one of the few games I've sunk triple-digit hours into. Such a good game.

[-] deeroh 19 points 1 year ago

Sekiro (RPG).

It's not necessarily representative of RPGs as a whole, but man, I have never played a game that felt so polished. The combat is immaculate, the levels are beautiful, and more subtly, the power scaling is really well tuned. Because it's not open world, they were able to hand tune the enemies' difficulty more closely to match your own progression, and for me, it resulted in fights that always felt challenging but fair.

[-] deeroh 14 points 1 year ago

Language learning is a long, long process, and it's important to make sure your habits are sustainable. It doesn't really matter what's optimal if you get demotivated and stop learning, so above all, you should do whatever keeps up your learning process. Don't force yourself to speak the flashcards aloud if that will discourage you from the whole thing.

That, and don't worry about optimal. There are no bad habits that can't be unlearned (and the value you'd get out of speaking would far outweigh any effort you need to invest in the future if you want to improve your accent). Speaking would be great, but as long as you're learning grammar and vocabulary, you're on track.

[-] deeroh 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The /r/LearnJapanese subreddit wiki is still the best place to find this kind of information, unfortunately. Maybe we start to populate our own to rely less on Reddit, but for now, I would start there (main wiki page), with a specific answer to your question being on the resources page.

For a personal answer, I've relied heavily on Anki (flashcard software) with a Core 2000 deck (e.g. https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/2141233552). There are lots of variants of the deck if you search for anki core 2000 deck, but they're all vocabulary lists sorted by how common they are in everyday language. Super useful.

[-] deeroh 5 points 1 year ago

Personally, I haven't brought myself to start using it yet, because I like having everything visible all in one place. I've thought about making a view for my most highly variable categories (e.g. my going out money, not my fixed monthly bills), but I can mostly accomplish the same thing by just putting those categories at the top.

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submitted 1 year ago by deeroh to c/ynab@lemmy.world

I just noticed the other day that focused views is supported now on mobile too. Is anybody using it or have any views they really like?

[-] deeroh 7 points 1 year ago

Genuine question, because the Lemmy app I'm using right now (Thunder) doesn't show instances next to user names, and I haven't generally been paying attention to which instances host which communities. What about kbin makes it attractive to inquisitive people?

[-] deeroh 11 points 1 year ago

FWIW I feel like this is less of a workaround and more of just intended fediverse behavior.

I did something similar (ish). Originally created an account on lemmy.world, realized it was too crowded, then created an account on a smaller instance and migrated my subscriptions over.

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