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It’s not only feedback, having arbitrary checkpoints like exams is an important motivator, and it also creates a whole culture around it that makes the learning experience into a s…

If meditation and workout look like a protection against ruminating, they might be functioning as avoidance. If a nap helps, maybe fix your sleep first (good sleep is super importa…

https://www.trustroots.org/ for the more alternative folks

I would happily make a career switch if I had the feeling my work in a school would be useful and doable. Where I live, I tried it and it was neither of the two. After having exper…

It’s a good reminder of the fact that capitalist companies aren’t democratic places, despite how much time and energy is spent there by workers.

It doesn’t seem that recent to me, at least been like that for six months.

2022 Dacia Sandero is a great car. Analog buttons, good build quality, well designed. And it’s cheap.

Seeing the number of poor people in the world, I don't understand what makes you believe you couldn't be one of them. Their kids also need to eat, learn and grow.

My personal experience says yes. I doubled my usage of personal servers because it's so easy to self-host when I have an LLM holding my hand.

I watched a friend generate a 10 pages report based on multiple documents, including scientific papers, and it was almost flawless. It would have taken me days. A milder version of…

typst templates would be a great addition to these.

You may be overestimating technical abilities of 99% of the people. I tried to convert some to pandoc and failed miserably. Personally I love it, markdown is becoming more and more…

Why PNG? Isn’t an image format more expensive to process?

They mainly created extra value for shareholders

In a capitalist system, the owners don’t owe you anything but your salary. And if they fire you, they no longer owe you a salary.

The average work time in European societies is probably that. The majority of citizens don’t work (too young, studying, sick, unemployed, retired). But it’s changing fast, the rich…

Yes, the hardest problem for me is the social aspect of opting out of consumerism. It makes most people feel really uncomfortable, like being sober in a group of social alcoholics.…

Aeron

There's something visually appealing about full-height windows, but they're not worth it in the long run. You get used to them fast, they're less energy efficient, they're more exp…

Why should we care about them? They probably don’t care about blue collar workers

It’s good and cheap, but don’t talk about politics to it or it might trigger some sort of censorship rule. You can see it think, then suddenly erase everything and suggest to switc…

I hope we get similar momentum for all cheap Android phones!

I genuinely wonder if there would be any end user against banning these algorithms. I’d love rss style content providers back. Just let me freely subscribe to accounts.

What you call "conscious attention" seems to be a sort of cognitive process. What the article calls unconscious state is a state. The idea is that in some states, some processes (l…

I'm tempted to say it's fair game, since complexity has often had the advantageous side effect for governing bodies to make legitimate complaints impossible to voice for normal cit…