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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 …

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 de…

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…

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…

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 k…

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 h…

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 gras…

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 shade…

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 …

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 …

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 spec…

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 whe…

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 real…