emberfiend

cool game, maybe consider removing the eternally looping animation in the header, it's pretty visually distracting

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Guy_Macon/Wikipedia_has_C...

Long-time WP contributor and apologist here. I still think Wikipedia does more good than bad (for all its sins), is the greatest collaborative human work of our time, and there is some merit to the idea of having a giant pile of money to be able to fight government-scale battles like this one. But the story of the bureaucrats settling in and leeching donations at scale is basically accurate.

Yeah, a smartphone with no dopamine feeds installed on it seems like the sane middle path here.

To your point, ads are brain malware.

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The brand I found when I did the research was LightDims. They seem to come in pretty large sheets. Haven't actually ordered any though.

Yeah, I'm also PWM sensitive. You can buy devices which measure it fortunately but I've been making do with a phone camera on a high/brief shutter speed.

Yeah, I'm at the point where I'm looking at manually positioning/removing one of those full-screen dimming filters so I can use my monitor past 7pm. And 90% of the time if a screen goes really dim it does so with savage PWM.

Yeah. I mean I agree with the rant but the guy seems so unhappy. I hope he finds a way to spend less time using computers.

Majestic.

Reddit already has this feature, although it might be underused. Set up a multireddit. Everything you want and nothing you don't. They are also not bottomless (well, more so if you stick to smaller subs), so if you don't put too many subs in your multi you can also hard-limit your feed time. They're great.

I think a lot about this in the context of video game minmaxers/netdeckers who just copy a researched, optimal behaviour. It's completely alien to me but some people really get a kick out of just being an implementer, following rote instructions exactly to the letter.

Yes, we are discussing a hypothetical, from a few parents up: "set a property tax that would hurt if the buildings became vacant"

The definition of vacant is something that would have to be figured out, but it's not impossible. For example, you could do a generous 6-12 months of the year occupation without taxation, and then a sliding scale from there. (So you pay 0% of the new tax at 12 months yearly occupation, 0% at 6 months, 50% at 3 months, and 100% at 0 months.)

Well said. I think misanthropy and pessimism are endemic with people who spend 14 hours a day talking to computers and don't have healthy social lives or many reasons to touch grass.

satisfice isn't a word fyi

I think you might be conflating "satisfy" (as in "that satisfies my needs") with "suffice" (as in "that's good enough, it suffices for my purposes").

Do you blog anywhere? Your perspective feels very lucid

This misses the "same computer" stipulation, no?

Native, high-level speaker here: "comprised of" is not wrong. You're entitled to your tastes of course, but you'll have a richer understanding of the world if you include the shades in your model.

Your example doesn't map, though. There is no ambiguity when I say "curry is comprised of beans and carrots". It's just a way of using the word that some native speakers have used their whole lives and other native speakers find jarring.

I also made a time-of-day brightness adjuster! I had a much cruder solution, just an autohotkey script that drags sliders around in nvidia control panel, but it's such a relief on the eyes. I hope it gets baked into OSes (or monitor hardware?) at some point, matching monitor luminosity to what the sun is doing seems pretty obvious.

What do you mean when you say "Google's keyboard"? I use Gboard and frequently swipe sentences which mix Spanish and English just fine. You enable "Multilingual typing" on the specific keyboard and then tick off languages from other installed keyboards to enable them. Maybe you haven't tried gboard for a long time?

Voice notes, maybe? As long as the app also handles speech recognition and stores the plaintext alongside it.

This feels somewhat close to how human minds work, to me, maybe? I know my diction gets super stilted, I compose complex predicates, and I use longer words with more adjectives when I'm talking about technical subjects. When I'm discussing music, memey news, or making simple jokes I get much more fluent, casual, and I use simpler constructions. When I'm discussing a competitive game I'm likely to be a bit snarkier, because I'm competitive and that part of my personality is attached to the domain and the relevant language. And so on.

These are guidelines for medical practitioners, who are well-placed to educate their patients.

They certainly worded it poorly, but what they meant was "voodoo doesn't work". As in, educate your patient about their wacky home remedies, and try to get them to engage with realistic recovery outcomes.

From the paper:

E for educate

Therapists should educate patients on the benefits of an active approach to recovery. Passive modalities, such as electrotherapy, manual therapy or acupuncture, early after injury have insignificant effects on pain and function compared with an active approach, and may even be counterproductive in the long term. Indeed, nurturing an external locus of control or the ‘need to be fixed’ can lead to therapy- dependent behaviour. Better education on the condition and load management will help avoid overtreatment. This in turn reduces the likelihood of unnecessary injections or surgery, and supports a reduction in the cost of healthcare (eg, due to disability compensation associated with low back pain). In an era of hi- tech therapeutic options, we strongly advocate for setting realistic expectations with patients about recovery times instead of chasing the ‘magic cure’ approach.

It's very bad form (and against the rules) to make chat the focus. You will eventually get reported if you do it a lot. A short chat at the end is fine.

The session template is: brief greeting > outline what you're gonna do > wish the other person well > mute mics and get stuff done for the bulk of the session > end of session chime sounds > share how well you did (and here you can chat for 2-4 mins if both parties are keen)

100%. Another tool available is to generally move to lower-intensity dopamine producers. Long/slow/thoughtful videos over short/fast/bitesized videos, books over videos, old/clunky/slow games over new/polished/fast games, board games over computer games, and so on.

The Atom XL fits the bill, doesn't it? Or do you want bleeding edge specs & chipset?

I like the general idea and wish that there were more small phones available.

Two different idioms, both fairly widely used (not sure about US vs non-US, but I've heard both as a non-American).

'Whistling in the wind' is about futility. A whistle is inaudible in the face of a massive elemental force like wind. "The lone excavator pushed on the hull of the colossal container ship, but it was whistling in the wind."

'Whistling in the dark' is about presenting a brave face in an intimidating situation: a nonchalant whistle in fear-inducing darkness. "They confidently claimed the ship would be moved in two days, I knew they were whistling in the dark."

If you care about understanding people and being understood, simply looking up idioms is way more effective than trying to construct meaning from physical principles. Just a thought :)

I summarized the EndMyopia/Todd Becker stuff at losetheglasses.org if anyone wants a short, readable version. The method continues to work for me, albeit slowly.

If you ever figure out why people do this or what their thinking is, let me know, but yeah this actually happens. I have a common name but a long and uncommon surname, and I have name.surname@gmail.com.

This GP from New Zealand signs up for EVERYTHING under my gmail account. A handful of it spam, but mostly important stuff - notifications for financial transactions make up most of the mails I receive.

I have called his offices repeatedly to try to discuss it with him, and even have a reasonable rapport with his secretary, but he never wants to take my calls.

I really cannot figure out why he does it.