lrvick

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by lrvick 1y ago
> Telling parents who ask about FaceTime between friends that tablets are evil seems as effective as telling random smokers on the street that it’s going to kill them. I would just simply say it is against our lifestyle and suggest alter
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by lrvick 1y ago
Everything I "give up" gives me so much more back. Now on the outside looking in, it feels like everyone criticizing me for not letting robots lift weights for me at the gym, because everyone else does it that way. I choose what t
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by lrvick 1y ago
Who cares what others expect? Say it is your religion, or digital dietary preference. When they see you working circles around everyone else because your brain can finally focus, they will generally back off.
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by lrvick 1y ago
I had this lifestyle when I worked from an office, and at home, in both individual contributor and leadership engineering roles. I also travel quite a bit. Just set expectations with others and it works just fine either way. Only thing in t
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by lrvick 1y ago
You asked for a study supporting our over-use of phones in general is a net negative. I gave a specific example that is well studied that could allow us to make pretty good guesses about other apps that do our thinking for us, which could e
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by lrvick 1y ago
I personally just look up directions online before I leave and take a few notes. Usually commits it to memory. Regularly relying on a GPS in general provably makes your brain weaker: https://newatlas.com/gps-spatial-directio
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by lrvick 1y ago
If you have an unusual lifestyle choice, you simply need to communicate that to all involved. Any that do not respect it, you can seek out alternatives for. One clinic denied me for not having a Google or Apple account, so I took my busines
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by lrvick 1y ago
ALL studies I have seen seem to support the idea that constant connectivity leads to worse mental health outcomes on average. To get to specific proof though, clinically in the way we could with other addictions like smoking, we would need
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by lrvick 1y ago
This is just one study, that echos dozens and dozens of other studies all pointing at the same things: being reachable and able to reach everything and everyone everywhere all at once is making us all sadder and less productive, and kids ar
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by lrvick 1y ago
I think it is totally related. The more information you give surveillance capitalists about what you buy at the drug store, or liqueur store, or movie theater, when you leave home, etc. the more power you give them to manipulate you and kee
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by lrvick 1y ago
> Somewhat privacy. When you take cash out of an ATM, surely the serial numbers will be recorded as being dispensed to you. For large bills that is true to some extent, but having worked closely with secret service in the past at multipl
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by lrvick 1y ago
I have an active social life, spent years as a sysadmin, co-run two tech companies, have a family, all without a phone. This is not some crazy sci-fi lifestyle experiment I am running for the first time. I just live mostly like all industri
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by lrvick 1y ago
I am near a landline 90% of the time, am reachable by internet during working hours on weekdays, and go to my desk to check emails and chats multiple times a day on weekends. It turns out you do not need to be reachable or online every seco
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by lrvick 1y ago
I live in silicon valley, have an active social life, travel frequently, have a family I spend time with every day, and am co-running two tech companies. People did all of these things before smartphones and all those methods still work jus
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by lrvick 1y ago
Smoking is dropping like a brick as a result of science, education, and social pressure. Just takes a while.
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by lrvick 1y ago
To be clear on my views. 1. I am entirely convinced minors should not have smartphones and every study supports this being a net negative. 2. I feel most adults are better off without them too, but it is an adult choice. For most I suggest
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by lrvick 1y ago
If you wanted to be vegan as a personal choice and everyone in your life wanted you to eat meat anyway, who cares? No one gets to decide your lifestyle but you. Make them adapt. You can get landlines (via a VOIP conversion box or otherwise)
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by lrvick 1y ago
I use cash all the time all over the world. I do sometimes have to walk out of a restaurant that refuses cash to find one that accepts it, but that sort of thing is memorable and often changes behavior in those businesses. Companies hate lo
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by lrvick 1y ago
When you use tap to pay, you are sending information about your purchases and location to dozens of ad tech companies, and are still participating in the very surveillance capitalism that makes everyone stupider for money. I also pay with c
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by lrvick 1y ago
Many parents used to drink while pregnant and put whiskey in the baby bottle to make kid shut up. We should make decisions based on research, not by emulating other badly informed parents, even if they are the majority.
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by lrvick 1y ago
You can do wifi calling in airplane mode. Left ours in this mode by default for months at first and then realized we could just cancel the cell phone plan entirely to save money. Wifi is everywhere when you need it.
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by lrvick 1y ago
I started by deleting an app a month until my phone was so boring I kept forgetting it at home, and ultimately abandoned it entirely. It took a couple years to recalibrate my dopamine reward system gradually until I could enjoy just existin
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by lrvick 1y ago
Since giving up my cell phone entirely over 5 years ago, my productivity, memory, and overall happiness are at the highest levels they have ever been, in my late 30s. I no longer apologize to anyone for this lifestyle choice anymore since t
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by lrvick 1y ago
I did not package Zig myself. Does that blob make it into final artifacts? If so that is a bug we should swiftly correct.
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by lrvick 1y ago
Get yourself off the toxic platforms first, then immediate family and friends. It is a bit like denormalizing smoking. It is a long game and a lot of education work but it is working.
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by lrvick 1y ago
Not anymore. Real pain in the ass to bootstrap but thanks to mrustc combined with our work in stagex we have an easy to audit path now in a 100% bootstrapped distro. Unfortunately due to no first party support or interest from the Rust team
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by lrvick 1y ago
Efforts pop up every once in a while, usually with no results. As I said elsewhere, if they actually pull it off this time then my tone changes to one of willingness from my team and I to put in the work to use these efforts to support dete
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by lrvick 1y ago
From 180 bytes of human readable machine code all the way up. https://codeberg.org/stagex/stagex/src/branch/main/packages/...
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by lrvick 1y ago
Technically it is raw x86 machine code in hexadecimal, a scheme called "hex0"
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by lrvick 1y ago
Building GHC regardless of using hadrian or make still requires an existing GHC binary. That is the core trust problem. GHC has a recursive dependency on itself with no way to go back before that loop.

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