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I own no iPads but all my screens are OLED and I would never buy anything else. The true black is an absolute killer feature. It makes the device just a glowing wonder at night, magical feeling, no way to overstate it.

OLED + dark mode after sundown are awesome. On Android we also get the extra dim mode which makes it perfect for lights-out.

Cross-sectional correlational studies cannot establish causation and it's entirely possible (frankly, likely) that more deprived kids spend more time in front of a screen because their environments are less stimulating/interesting/safe.

This is the same as quitting smoking or just not thinking about an elephant. You can almost never cease/stop doing something, yet you can almost always displace it with something else.

(Disclaimer 'altacc suggests: I do have kids.)

Is this really just a 24h cooldown once?

Mine drove a gas-guzzling GMC CCKW 353 truck, putting out up to a kilogram of CO2 per 1 km on inefficiently planned (but scenic) routes.

This is about a dead grandfather as he is decomposing in the ground. Not about his life which might have been more energy-intensive than that of many moderns.

You can collect a lot of great takes on love though.

Excellent points on the intrinsic motivations and qualities absolutely dominating any control system.

But also plenty of places are nothing like Heinlein's hometown so this is far from universal.

My dad always asked whether these calmer people live longer or just slower.

Speaking of treatment, do you also find LLMs awesome at getting you over the hump? For example, if I need to gather information across emails, chats, and documents for some form... odds are it will get done at the very last moment or later. But now that the clanker will do all that for me and put the first draft for fixes, I do it at the earliest possible moment.

Sure but concepts that resonate with actual human experience get repeated/amplified. Manuscripts don't burn and all that.

You can just install Claude Code on the server and drive it from Claude Desktop via remote control. That way you can control Claude Code on mutiple servers straight from your Claude Desktop, Mobile or Web, and stay fully within Anthropic tools.

Everything works: you get the native view of subagents, you can upload files and images, fork threads, etc.

The massive upside is that the actual work happens on the server so you can close your laptop and it will continue plus it will not fry your thighs. The advantage over sessions (which I haven't tried but theoretically sound) is that you can configure Claude's environment on the server however you like. Give it any tools you need, ssh access to other machines, sudo, whatever.

The only downside is that every new project requires a setup step on the server (to add the systemd service) where you will develop it since Claude can only handle one server per directory. Claude will handle this step however if you give it ssh access to your server.

The machines show up nicely in Claude Desktop/Mobile/Web, and repos/projects are in a dropdown. Unless you work on very many projects at the same time, this setup is golden.

Maybe it's different in India but I am from Poland and my parents had to stand in long lines to obtain... toilet paper thanks to the wonders of central planning. Meanwhile, I get goods from the Internet. Ordered before 8 pm on Friday, they will be here Saturday. Never have I seen a non-capitalist country I would like to inhabit.

Meanwhile people who used to build some useless social media stuff are making high-tech weapons which stop Russia in Ukraine despite it being like four times smaller. Kinda nice when you're next in line.

Now, on top of all that, capitalism is giving me a magical silicon assistant that codes and drives all these wonders of the Internet previously developed. And yeah, they're made by cultists from Anthropic and OpenAI psychopaths. Yet through the market competition, they fight each other over who can cater to me more. Dance monkey, here's a $100 bill.

So far, capitalism just can't stop winning.

I think it's almost always the latter with a mere sprinkling of the former.

Not because there aren't many honest people driven by what's best for their craft or profession, there are, but these are not the kinds of people who find being a political party's talking head on a morning show, or even reviewing their political program and schmoozing with the apparatchiks, gratifying.

I am a non-American from Poland and have no trouble understanding lobbying along with the distinction between lobbying and outright bribery or more systemic corruption.

Also, a lot of lobbying happens without money changing hands. Politicians need professional bodies and local communites for a variety of reasons. From staging campaign stops through having experts to maintain a semblance of merit all the way to filling goverment positions and actually exercising power once they win elections. Thus these various groups gain influence.