pololeono

relevant -> https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2009/10/07/the-gervais-principle-...

I encountered a Pips puzzle in NYT once which didnt have a unique solution. This was very confusing as I was expecting these puzzles are curated and the designers would use tools to design unique and interesting puzzles.

Yes, go to rome. I will be impressed when we have self driving cars in rome.

I don't know, I could imagine that this changes when AI becomes more sensible than the average internet advice.

Also I would like to see some evidence how dangerous the experiment with the AI inspired Fusor actually was. I recently read here "hiking in jeans" is dangerous.

House on Fire: The Fight to Eradicate Smallpox

In House on Fire, William H. Foege describes his own experiences in public health and details the remarkable program that involved people from countries around the world in pursuit of a single objective―eliminating smallpox forever.

It is all about aesthetics. Humanity is also part of nature.

Search for good games in the vast pile trash mobile games: Gorogoa comes to mind

Start developping apps for your phone

Start modding the hardware of your phone (e.g. build a custom case)

Read books (modern phones with bigger screens are surprisingly comfortable for reading)

Research all the birthdays of your friends and safe them in the contact information. Your phone will remind you to send them a message on their birthday;)

This manifestation of the threes trope below everything 2048 related reminds me of a comment I recently read below a Stephen Wolfram related post:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41406645

All: please don't repeat the usual Wolfram trope. (If you don't know what I mean by that, a decade's worth of explanation can be found via https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que....) The issue is not that it's wrong, it's that it's extremely repetitive and we want fresh discussion on HN, preferably about the specific content of an article.

I have some expirience implementing an extreme dumb phone: I did it on a samsung smartphone using "Google family link" which is the parental control feature of android. You need a second ios or android device (yes the family link app to control your "children" also exists for IOS). This device you store in an inaccessible location and you tie it to an account of which you dont remember the password (just write a long sequence of random characters on a sheet of paper and store it in the same inaccessible place)

Then you set everything up: You install the desired apps on the main phone. You prevent installation of additional apps through parent phone. You blacklist all addictive websites.

(You can also block all preinstalled apps, in my case I had to block the browser app from Samsung, because the family link app does not restrict this browser it can only restrict chrome)

I ended up with a very watertight dumb phone. One goal was also to prevent any access to porn through the phone. This is also a process, because sometimes you find new ways to access such content despite the google family filters. Then you just blacklist those additional ways.

What I still have:

WhatsApp (people suggest sometimes to just use a feature phone or light phone, but this is not an option because at least in europe you need whats app, else you are excluded from social life)

Spotify

Phone

SMS

Chrome (blocked: news, porn, online shops)

App for Public Transportation

Maps

Notes

Camera

Banking

I can also recommend the "Olauncher" launcher.