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But the New York Times on a phone is not particularly more or less addictive than the same content on a piece of paper. Nor does reading it on a phone cut anyone off from the rest of society any more than focusing on the printed paper or a book or a Walkman.

If the problem is games, social media, or porn, why don't we identify those as social problems and try to fix them? Rather than blaming the device.

Why is the exact device the problem?

20 years ago everyone on suburban trains would be looking at a newspaper, magazine or book throughout their journey. Then they would watch a couple of hours of TV at home. Why is 'looking at a phone' such a problem, when most of the looking replicates those activities, with much of the rest being basic utilities which didn't exist previously - consulting a map, ordering food or shopping, looking up timetables or schedules?

Can you provide a reproducible example of how sorting rows can lead to unrecoverable data loss?

Also, commas in quoted strings are quite mainstream csv, but csvs with quoted strings containing unescaped newlines are extremely baroque. Criticism of csv based on the assumption that strings will contain newlines is not realistic.

No I mean just consider the money spent on the annoying ones lost and buy another pair.

No one wants to do that but for a relatively low ticket item which one uses for hours every day it seems masochistic not to do so.

I know it's annoying to suggest that consumer preferences will fix stuff like this when clearly it comes from some corporate design culture that completely ignores consumer preference.

But in this case (a $50 device rather than a washing machine or something) why wouldn't you just get a different pair made by a different company?