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by npunt 3y ago
Agree, to have agency in the digital world requires us having control over our initiative. There's both behavioral and technical ways to do this today: 1. Look only at certain times each day (see habit chaining, e.g. 'look at emai
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by npunt 3y ago
This article is literally titled "Critical Ignoring as a Core Competence". The first strategy recommended in the abstract is "self-nudging, in which one ignores temptations by removing them from one’s digital environments.&qu
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by npunt 3y ago
Apologies for prior terse response, I wasn't talking about a personal experience, just the almost-goes-without-saying truism that japanese brands are the most reliable and have dominated pretty much every car reliability rating since t
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by npunt 3y ago
> A really curious thing about muds is more people seem to want to make new ones than play them. I think it makes a lot of sense that the remaining MUD players are those that have the most complete affinity for the system. While MUDs dra
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by npunt 3y ago
> lest you think the Japanese manufacturers are better They are
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by npunt 3y ago
Yep, as much as we want hardware and software to be conformant to whatever standards exist, in practice an important part of the job of a production OS is to work around the myriad quirks of hw/sw users will likely encounter. Standards
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by npunt 3y ago
You might be interested in this web rendering proxy [1] which turns webpages into imagemapped GIFs for use on old systems [1] https://github.com/tenox7/wrp
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by npunt 3y ago
Health services also log you out after ~15min. Kaiser, One Medical, Epic Mychart, etc. Very annoying
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by npunt 3y ago
Yeah Sascha (Sonic Mayhem) says digital may come: “I think digital outlets will follow. Not 100% tho.” https://twitter.com/sonicmayhem/status/1689688600362037249
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by npunt 3y ago
Same. I think it's pretty normal to want to go back and visit the physical locations of our youth to relive the memories, but if the environments we grew up in were digital we lack a tangible memory to return to, so a substitute is hol
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by npunt 3y ago
no I didn't see that in there, I just agree that robots.txt makes sense for web crawlers but not archival purposes
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by npunt 3y ago
Oh thank you for the update, that's great news! Agree with their position 100%.
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by npunt 3y ago
I adore archive.org. I'm worried though it is becoming somewhat of a load bearing element of civilization, given the importance of shared and accurate history. We need redundancy. ~~I'm also worried about the deletion of old pages
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by npunt 3y ago
Interesting that users must opt out every time, that seems like something a service could exploit. Imagine a service that has a rotating TOS that updates every week/month with some meaningless change and in each transactional and marke
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by npunt 3y ago
I take 300mcg time release and it gives me more vivid dreams. Stuff is powerful
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by npunt 3y ago
Cars are often in tunnels, could be dangerous there? For comparison purposes, note that indoors CO2 will go from 400 -> 1000ppm+ rather quickly if its not ventilated According to this source [1], CO2 went from 400 -> 3000ppm inside a
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by npunt 3y ago
It was probably put there for weight distribution as Porsche would be more likely to optimize for that despite the user inconvenience it may cause
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by npunt 3y ago
Fourth for an Obsidian plugin, its the perfect environment to get a lot of people to be able to try it out
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by npunt 3y ago
Agree for sure, really love seeing the evidence and discussion in realtime as it shows us a better way to do worldwide science collaboration than traditional publishing. Really speaks to a need for a new medium specific to science's un
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by npunt 3y ago
> What are good investments? Open-ended research grants to anyone with moderate training in experimental science to just throw shit against the wall and try every last possible combination of something, without concern for 'publish
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by npunt 3y ago
On youtube (paid): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8L8YIS2DCVU
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by npunt 3y ago
What are ways to mitigate solar storm risk like the one mentioned in the article? Should we do critical data cold storage in salt mines? This is one of those potentially catastrophic events I've heard little real solutions or mitigatio
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by npunt 3y ago
Yeah definitely! I don't trust that my writing energy nor my memory will continue into the future, so I have a few tactics I use: If an idea flashes into my head, I quickly write it shorthand anywhere . See my other comment ( https:&#
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by npunt 3y ago
Yep, Obsidian is the best! Two patterns I use a lot to help with this small brain buffer problem are collections & streams. Collections (sometimes called 'Maps of Content') are sets of internal & external links or resource
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by npunt 3y ago
This idea of a 'small brain buffer' is why I love writing small atomic notes in wikis [1]. It lets me break problems down into simple pieces that I can later assemble upward in abstraction, rather than try to hold complex ideas in
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by npunt 3y ago
Vaccines for herpesviruses are not easy to make because the virus can evade the immune system by laying dormant in nerves, among other things. It's just a tough family of viruses to pin down. There's a phase 1 EBV vaccine [1] but
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by npunt 3y ago
One thing I've personally found is, if I look closely, my small decisions often have big ramifications due to the chain of events or habits they kick off. For example, the choice to open that one app leads to 30 minutes of scrolling le
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by npunt 3y ago
https://nickpunt.com occasional product & design stuff
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by npunt 3y ago
Yes indeed, I was just being a bit cheeky given GP's other discussion of the definition of 'opinion' :)
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Fall of Civilizations podcast is good https://fallofcivilizationspodcast.com

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