> If I can get distracted from my real world tasks anytime, anywhere, the immediate incentives to work on real things disappear. Effectively, one can get stuck in a local minimum.

> I don't know how to solve it, ...

> but personally I've chosen to block as many feeds/algorithms as I can, ...

I think you solved it :) (at least, for yourself)

There are many things "out there" that are addictive and distracting and thus unhealthy, but we all have to find some way to overcome

Thanks for your positive response. It's true, we all need to help each other in finding community and human connection again amidst the waterfall of "content".

It's taken a few years to get to this point, but seeing the effects and regrets from over consumption of feeds made me take action.

Depends on your use case. White lithium is better for metal on metal and silicone works better for plastic and rubber applications

> Sure, write some SQL from time to time, but the majority of the time just use the ORM

So add another layer that has to be maintained/debugged when you don't have to?

Actually, especially for smaller breweries, carbon filtration is extremely common. It still removes chloramines, pesticides, and other off-flavor compounds, and is much cheaper than an RO system. It's true that it won't change the hardness of the water, but if you have naturally soft water you can just add minerals, if needed for the style

Activated carbon will remove the larger chain PFAs, but is not as effective as removing the smaller ones. From the paper:

> Conventional water treatment employed at municipal drinking water treatment plants have been shown to be nearly ineffective at removing PFAS. This can leave the burden and cost of implementing more sophisticated water treatments to brewers unless public water suppliers implement tertiary treatment to remove PFAS from finished water prior to distribution. Anion exchange and activated carbon treatments have been shown to more effectively remove longer-chain PFAS and PFSAs but were less effective in removing PFCAS and the alternative shorter-chain PFAS and PFECAs. Reverse osmosis treatment showed significant removal of PFAS of different chain lengths in drinking water, but can be prohibitive due to high operational costs and energy usage. In areas with known contamination, beers from macro- breweries were less likely to have detectable PFAS than craft beers brewed at a smaller scale, potentially due to more effective and expensive filtration of tap water at larger breweries.

Because then parents couldn't just shove a screen in front of their child's face and then proceed to ignore them anymore. Half-kidding, but there are real liability concerns. How much supervision is reasonable? My parents definitely didn't police my every moment on the internet. Actually, quite the opposite

Everyone knows that hackers exist and exploit security lapses. Everyone. You might not know the details and such, but you should responsible enough to at least ask if you are taking people's money. I just don't think the ignorance card is plausible here

> They are already suppressing left-leaning speech by defunding CPB, and ahve openly said their reasons for doing so for are politically motivated

No longer subsidizing left leaning speech != suppressing left leaning speech

big brain dev say, "me add complexity. no problem."

grug whisper: “problem come later.”

grug see lone dev make clever code.

grug light torch for future archaeologist.

read this report:

"The White House Covid Censorship Machine"

https://www.congress.gov/118/meeting/house/115561/documents/...