emberfiend

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by emberfiend 5mo ago
cool game, maybe consider removing the eternally looping animation in the header, it's pretty visually distracting
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by emberfiend 1y ago
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 the greatest collaborative human
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by emberfiend 1y ago
Yeah, a smartphone with no dopamine feeds installed on it seems like the sane middle path here.
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by emberfiend 2y ago
To your point, ads are brain malware.
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by emberfiend 2y ago
mad-max-tom-hardy-nuh-uh-thats-bait.webm
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by emberfiend 2y ago
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 devices which measure it fortunately but I've b
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by emberfiend 2y ago
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 goes really dim it does so with savage PWM.
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by emberfiend 2y ago
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.
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by emberfiend 2y ago
Majestic.
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by emberfiend 2y ago
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 stick to smaller subs), so if you don't put too m
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by emberfiend 2y ago
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 kick out of just being an implementer, following ro
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by emberfiend 2y ago
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 have to be figured out, but it's not impossibl
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by emberfiend 3y ago
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 grass.
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by emberfiend 3y ago
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").
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A Hyper-Dense City(judybackhouse.com)
3 points by emberfiend 3y ago|0 comments
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by emberfiend 3y ago
Do you blog anywhere? Your perspective feels very lucid
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by emberfiend 3y ago
This misses the "same computer" stipulation, no?
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by emberfiend 3y ago
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 shades in your model.
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by emberfiend 3y ago
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 their whole lives and other native speak
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by emberfiend 3y ago
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 the eyes. I hope it gets baked into OSes (or monitor ha
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by emberfiend 3y ago
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 specific keyboard and then tick off lan
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by emberfiend 3y ago
Voice notes, maybe? As long as the app also handles speech recognition and stores the plaintext alongside it.
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by emberfiend 4y ago
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 when I'm talking about technical subjects. When I'm d
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by emberfiend 4y ago
These are guidelines for medical practitioners, who are well-placed to educate their patients.
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by emberfiend 4y ago
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 realistic recovery outcomes. From the paper: >
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by emberfiend 4y ago
It's very bad form (and against the rules) to make chat the focus. You will eventually get reported if you do it a lot. A short chat at the end is fine. The session template is: brief greeting > outline what you're gonna do &gt
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by emberfiend 4y ago
100%. Another tool available is to generally move to lower-intensity dopamine producers. Long/slow/thoughtful videos over short/fast/bitesized videos, books over videos, old/clunky/slow games over new/poli
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by emberfiend 4y ago
The Atom XL fits the bill, doesn't it? Or do you want bleeding edge specs & chipset? I like the general idea and wish that there were more small phones available.
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by emberfiend 5y ago
Two different idioms, both fairly widely used (not sure about US vs non-US, but I've heard both as a non-American). 'Whistling in the wind' is about futility. A whistle is inaudible in the face of a massive elemental force li
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by emberfiend 6y ago
I summarized the EndMyopia/Todd Becker stuff at losetheglasses.org if anyone wants a short, readable version. The method continues to work for me, albeit slowly.

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