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Re:Using a mild Twitter addiction to get things done on Monday January 03, 2022 @08:28AM (#29780559)
Agree with the other commenters - it's not sad to admit to designing your environment in a way that is conducive to good habits. I use something similar to the timer container method as well. Our brains are plastic, and there will only be more evidence showing how phones have significantly altered them.
Re:A Tumblr developer on the App Store approval process on Monday December 27, 2021 @12:22PM (#29704441)
I don't disagree. I won't pretend to know how I would act if limiting porn consumption was actually implemented. But ignoring the thousands of people who self-report an ironically similar addictive experience you just described, but for porn, is dismissive and self-centered.
Re:A Tumblr developer on the App Store approval process on Monday December 27, 2021 @09:55AM (#29702932)
I don't appreciate the insinuation. The level of severity should not gate how people feel about this specific issue.
Re:A Tumblr developer on the App Store approval process on Monday December 27, 2021 @08:49AM (#29702489)
I didn't say ban. Unless you're for kids drinking at age 9 we're on the same page. And it's more than a few people at this point.
Re:A Tumblr developer on the App Store approval process on Monday December 27, 2021 @08:07AM (#29702175)
Not sure if you were saying this ironically, but I firmly believe limiting the consumption of porn would be a net positive. The negative effects are at best overlooked, but normally twisted, and the average age of first experience with porn keeps dropping.
Re:An interview that disappeared – FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 on Thursday December 23, 2021 @07:58AM (#29661395)
It still seems wild to me that, after discovering most of the judges who voted for Qatar to host the World Cup were bribed, everything proceeded as planned. Sepp Blatter was objectively corrupt, and Infantino is no better.
Re:The pandemic has deepened an epidemic of loneliness on Tuesday December 07, 2021 @10:20AM (#29473338)
I often come back to this quote by Vivek Murthy, former and current Surgeon General of the United States: "During my years caring for patients, the most common pathology I saw was not heart disease or diabetes; it was loneliness."[0] Always strikes me that the issue was so noticeable even four years ago.

[0]: https://www.vivekmurthy.com/post/2017/10/10/work-and-the-lon...

Re:The new chief chaplain at Harvard is an atheist on Sunday August 29, 2021 @09:45AM (#28346634)
Whichever makes you feel like a good human and live an ethical life.
Re:Waymo starts offering autonomous rides in San Francisco on Tuesday August 24, 2021 @12:38PM (#28291241)
I love how they still buckle the seat belt across the empty front seat.
Re:Apps Getting Worse on Sunday August 08, 2021 @07:41PM (#28111237)
It's already been happening I think. One of the core members of the team who built the music recommendation features left a few years ago https://notes.variogr.am/2016/11/16/leaving-spotify-the-echo...
> We have never bullied, oppressed, or subjugated the people of any other country, and we never will

I'd ask a Uyghur but they're in Lake Laogai

Re:New Machine Learning Gems for Ruby on Sunday June 20, 2021 @09:50AM (#27569935)
"Matz is nice and so we are nice"
This just sounds like webauthn with extra steps
Re:Microsoft and Oracle link up their clouds on Wednesday June 05, 2019 @01:26PM (#20106839)
Only in US East region. Oracle knows their main target is DC government
Re:Why I Quit Tech and Became a Therapist on Monday March 11, 2019 @11:35AM (#19359714)
Someone who isn't me had a similar experience. The psychedelics just acted as a catalyst to act on things they already knew needed to change.