They/Them, agender-leaning scalie.

ADHD software developer with far too many hobbies/trades: AI, gamedev, webdev, programming language design, audio/video/data compression, software 3D, mass spectrometry, genomics.

Learning German (B2), Chinese (HSK 3-4ish), French (A2).

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Cake day: June 18th, 2023
  • Newtra@pawb.socialtoADHD@lemmy.world•What are your best AD(H)D hacks/copes/tricks?English
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    1 year ago

    Replace mindless entertainment with enriching entertainment. E.g. YouTube video essays, lectures, history podcasts, DuoLingo, Anki, Brilliant, artsy/niche movies/games, etc. Always be learning something, even if you’ll never need it. Try to limit yourself to memorable, unique, or mind-opening content.

    It’s no fix, but it trains your brain to be able to wait just a little longer for its dopamine. Also you get to feel like you’re sort-of achieving something, not just losing time every time your impulsive brain takes over.

    I’m intermediate level in 3 languages, know a shit ton of science, and have played thousands of unique indie games. Is any of this useful? lol no. But do I feel accomplished and in control of some big parts of my life? Hell yes.

  • Newtra@pawb.socialtoTechnology@beehaw.org•PRQL — a simple, powerful, pipelined SQL replacement
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    1 year ago

    ooo, I love this. It reminds me of how nice C#'s LINQ is…

    “Pipeline style” DB queries have some interesting advantages as well:

    • It’s straightforward to write efficient queries for DBs that don’t include a query optimizer stares at Datomic
    • You can split the pipeline into server-side and client-side steps when working with less capable DBs stares at most of NoSQL
    • It would be much easier to transition from a pipeline API to a non-text-based API so that our ORMs/query builders can directly talk to DBs without the overhead of generating and parsing SQL.
  • Newtra@pawb.socialtoTechnology@beehaw.org•what AI tool do you mostly use Bard or ChatGPTEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I still use Google for ~95% of my queries because I like real sources, comprehensive documentation, and not having to read a wall of text when a one-line answer would have sufficed.

    ChatGPT is a good replacement for Quora/Stack Exchange for explaining general knowledge stuff like other languages’ grammar and simple science, as well as finding authors/books/movies from descriptions when you’ve forgotten their names.

    Bard is… kinda dumb. I gave it a few chances, but it was nothing compared to ChatGPT’s free tier.