hexatin

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by hexatin 2y ago
For iOS, Screenzen is an app that does this: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/screenzen-screen-time-control/...
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by hexatin 4y ago
At the risk of being trite, your comment did make me think of the line from the end of The Lorax: “Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, Nothing is going to get better. It's not.”
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by hexatin 4y ago
Any advice for finding quality Discord servers (things like ideal member count / “red flags” etc)? I feel like I have a lot of trouble finding servers that strike a good balance of being active but not impenetrable.
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by hexatin 4y ago
Forgive me if this is covered in his argument since I haven’t read it yet, but does he discuss why this same argument wouldn’t apply to biological brains?
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by hexatin 4y ago
Haha, I haven’t seen a callback to Unidan in a long while — I still think about this copypasta whenever I see people talking about crows online.
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by hexatin 4y ago
Hello! I suppose more than anything recently I’ve really been trying to improve and increase my social relationships, which I feel like I’ve left too long by the wayside. It has been an endlessly rewarding journey so far and I feel like I s
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by hexatin 4y ago
Gotcha, in that case I’m definitely with you there; I don’t agree with how the author tries to tie all these things together and blame them on the usual suspects of “screen time,” etc. without any real basis
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by hexatin 4y ago
Our voice communication software isn’t even near equivalent to in-person voice communication yet, and it is rather mature technology at this point. Consider how much easier an in-person conversation with multiple people interrupting each ot
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by hexatin 4y ago
I agree that the blogger doesn’t give anything close to a thoughtful or meaningful solution, but I don’t agree that it’s a pseudo-problem. Anecdotally, from every person I have spoken to around my age and above my age, it seems that somethi
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by hexatin 4y ago
It seems to be using the system setting, since on my phone it opened to dark mode by default.
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by hexatin 5y ago
The strength of light over a distance obeys an inverse square law[1], causing it to effectively lose power over long distances, since the same amount of energy is being spread over larger and larger spheres as it radiates out. For photons,
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by hexatin 5y ago
Valve seems to have an interesting solution of their own to this problem, which is just to not tell anyone that they’re working on a game until it’s basically done. This removes the pressure on them to meet a certain deadline, but it doesn’
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by hexatin 5y ago
On the other hand, though, how much more expensive might it be if only single-family homes were available?
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by hexatin 5y ago
I do personally. I use Fira with ligatures enabled in any editor I can, and I find that the ligatures help me to be able to quickly scan and understand code better than I could otherwise.
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by hexatin 5y ago
You might be thinking of https://12ft.io/ ?
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by hexatin 5y ago
> You can also have specialized "sleeper cars" that get you to your destination overnight, fresh and ready. Trains have had this capability for decades, and that is a very mature technology, with the upside of also carrying far