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I think what you're saying is both besides the point and incorrect. Firstly, not studying, ignoring safety rules, or half-assing a task at work are behaviors, they don't necessaril…

Maybe those are two sides of the same coin, question-askers are treated harshly because the priority of the site isn't to help them, the priority is to help the people who are sear…

Most false information was on the hardware description language VHDL that I'm currently learning.

In my experience asking questions to Claude, the amount of incorrect information it gives is on a completely different scale in comparison to traditional sources. And the informati…

This post reminds me of myself in the past. One thing I found very helpful was to regularly practice mindfulness meditation, as it reduces my desire for entertainment and generally…

You are correct that working on underlying issues is very important, but there is a huge practical value to blocking out distractions. First of all, it gets you started on scrollin…

I think you are making a very important point here, but unfortunately getting downvoted for stating it so cynically. A more productive way to phrase it would be that people's self-…

Thank you for the suggestions. Regarding NextDNS, can it be setup in a way that is difficult to disable? Or could I just disable the user application on my phone and use my unfilte…

Dear HN, I struggle a lot with scrolling too much on websites on my Android phone (especially reddit and YouTube). Despite the problems this causes me, making an effort to stop thr…

Could you give a description of how you block social media? All methods I found so far can be undone within seconds.

For mathematics, there are the Princeton Companion to Mathematics and the Princeton Companion to Applied Mathematics.

Yes, they were wrong. Many young kids who are bad at mental calculations are later competent at higher mathematics and able to use it. I don't understand what patterns and tricks y…

Home gyms are great. I also recommend adjustable dumbbells, they are very versatile.

Interesting, this sounds like my normal state. I cope by only eating tasty calorie-dense meals and snacks, never skipping meals or snacks, and weight lifting to increase my appetit…

Seeing this type of argument always bothers me. It's basically saying that, because people in the past were often overly critical of new technologies or trends, we can dismiss crit…

The distribution of the data is also the main problem with MBTI, AFAIK. Intra-/extraversion for example have a unimodal distribution with most people being somewhere in the middle.…

It may seem this way from an outsiders perspective, but I think the intersection between people who work on the development of state-of-the-art LLMs and people who get replaced is …

I don't understand why you would draw this conclusion. The deep search you describe is an algorithm that humans can understand perfectly fine. Humans just can't solve it in their h…

Maybe we should even generalize further to "mentally-passive sedentary activities".