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Re: How I regained concentration and focus

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Post by dehrmann »

121789 wrote: post #104

Does anyone know how to block websites at something like the router level? I find myself able to get around normal browser-level blockers fairly easily. I'd love to use some parental controls against myself from like 6-5pm on weekdays

If you have DoH enabled, it's hard. If you don't, with OpenWrt, it's easy enough to configure its DNS server to add IPs to ipsets after a lookup, then configure the firewall to drop those requests over a time window.

> I find myself able to get around normal browser-level blockers fairly easily.

You're still just 30 seconds away from disabling the rule.

Re: How I regained concentration and focus

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Post by lampshades »

AzureShill420 wrote: post #103
1-6 wrote: post #97

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I’m curious because I’ve had kids early. Will I ever be able to catch up with peers who’ve decided their focus would be on their job and forego having children later in life?

Do you feel like there is really anything to "catch up" on? I'm in my mid 30s with no kids - while I can see that my career happens to be more advanced than close friends who had kids early, the signal to noise ratio is pretty high. I'd think about it this way: enjoy the path you've set yourself on and savour the years where you have both your kids and your health. When they become less dependent on you, the option t…

Tip: don’t give advice to people with kids when you don’t have them yourself. We don’t want it because you all have zero idea what we go through.

Re: How I regained concentration and focus

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Post by woweoe »

lloydatkinson wrote: post #83
woweoe wrote: post #61

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Wikipedia is incredibly biased in terms of what news it cherry picks though. Just read through the debates of what gets proposed for inclusion, and then think about the stuff that's outright deleted.

Do you have some examples?

"Just read through the debates of what gets proposed for inclusion, and then think about the stuff that's outright deleted."

Re: How I regained concentration and focus

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Post by rr888 »

nop_slide wrote: post #110
121789 wrote: post #104

Does anyone know how to block websites at something like the router level? I find myself able to get around normal browser-level blockers fairly easily. I'd love to use some parental controls against myself from like 6-5pm on weekdays

Might be able to do that with a pi-hole

I did this, works great until you realize how easy it is to pause blocking.

Re: How I regained concentration and focus

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Post by cloudking »

121789 wrote: post #104

Does anyone know how to block websites at something like the router level? I find myself able to get around normal browser-level blockers fairly easily. I'd love to use some parental controls against myself from like 6-5pm on weekdays

Put Adguard Home on a Raspberry Pi, and point your router DNS to it. https://github.com/AdguardTeam/AdGuardHome

Re: How I regained concentration and focus

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Post by walleeee »

Scarblac wrote: post #6

I see that Rolf Dobelli has a book on avoiding news now. But he made his point crystal clear in an article he wrote in 2010 already, and put as a freely downloadable PDF on his website. I can't find it there now, but here's a link to that PDF on some other site: https://www.gwern.net/docs/culture/2010-dobelli.pdf

Gwern's site is a gold mine of various interesting tidbits

Re: How I regained concentration and focus

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Post by insightcheck »

rvba wrote: post #109
1-6 wrote: post #97

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I’m curious because I’ve had kids early. Will I ever be able to catch up with peers who’ve decided their focus would be on their job and forego having children later in life?

It depends. The "mid" positions often require a grind. For example to get a skill. The "top" positions often are a new set of hoops that you need to jump. First you need to actually get the position: what sometimes is about who you know, sometimes about what you do, sometimes sheer luck (e.g. those above you quit) or by just grinding and applying everywhere. Also at some point a new hoop are sales. Nobody cares that…

You can write a longform blog post and submit it to HN, I would read it. Ribbonfarm's "The Gervais Principle" (2009) [0] is a top example of a very long blog post split over multiple parts, yet insightful enough to be shared widely on HN and still provoke thought, long after a first read.

[0] https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2009/10/07/the-gervais-principle-...

Re: How I regained concentration and focus

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Post by kej »

anonporridge wrote: post #62
bananabiscuit wrote: post #34

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Unfortunately, it is a mistake to think that just because you are only presented with high quality facts (statements that are very likely to be true), that you are getting an objective view of the story. You would be surprised how unrepresentative a story can be made purely through omission or selective emphasis, and Wikipedia is very guilty especially of the latter. The talk pages are usually very revealing of what…

This is something a lot of people don't understand. It is impossible to have an objective and bias-free source of information, simply because the amount of information that exists is unimaginably enormous. It's impossible for any single human mind to absorb everything that's happening, so we have to rely on services whose job is filtering that information into a small set of important bits. By selectively choosing wh…

I liked the way Howard Zinn (who had his own rather strong biases, of course) made that point in the afterword to A People's History of the United States:

>But there is no such thing as a pure fact, innocent of interpretation. Behind every fact presented to the world—by a teacher, a writer, anyone—is a judgment. The judgment that has been made is that this fact is important, and that other facts, omitted, are not important.

Re: How I regained concentration and focus

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Post by ramblerman »

rr888 wrote: post #127

What I did is tell my boss about my difficulty and now they check in on me twice a day to look at my progress. I hate being micro managed, but really helped me to work on delivering.

I’m not sure if this was sarcasm, but if not …

It’s a dystopian nightmare, that you would voluntarily request this.

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