I have set myself a daily dose of daylight exposure, either by going out or looking through windows. I feel my sleep has improved since I started a week ago. Although I don't want to jump to conclusions early. So maybe nature, or daylight, or good weather, or all of them - does it to me.
I write this comment while sitting in a local garden to start my day.
> With all of the modernization and streamlining that has happened in other parts of our lives, apartment hunting remains unstructured, messy, frustrating, stressful.
If multiple candidates compete over the same apt, no searching method in the world will resolve the issue. Either you have high supply of apts, or a super intelligent city software that matches people to available apartments based on their socioeconomic and professional profiles.
I have galaxy s7. I don't get why I cannot remove apps like "Samsung Health", "Samsung Internet", "Samsung Members", etc. I constantly pushed with updates on these, and all I can do is flaging the updates as inappropriate.
Taking cars out of some urban areas is such an upgrade. Once in a while I revisit a street in a city I didn't visit for long, where the road has been appropriated for pedestrians and sitting area. Just like that, the street transforms – from a passage through which to go – to become the go-to attraction.
Before talking about what amounts are good or bad, the cultural phenomenon of drinking has always been mysterious to me. Alcohol feels overrated. It seems like no more than symbolic association with social life, or celebration. I love socializing and celebrating, but when I want to seize the moment, I want sharp senses - not the opposite. Also, I find it not tasty honestly.
I trust people to like having me as their company even when not participating in drinking.
I think the more significant I/O trend would be ai guessing your intentions. The program will know the user so well it will be effectively mind reading.
If improving DDG - or any privacy respecting search engine - would require extra funding, I just want to say I would be happy to pay subscription fees for a good service.
The long 2020 lock-downs taught me the importance of having a regular amount of social interactions, even at workplace. I have fairly limited social life. I actually reached a state where I felt my brain doesn't fire, like a car barely starting. Now I value any social life much more. I see it as nutrition.
Good point. I was thinking the concept of "beauty" is comprised of both pure aesthetics (cleanness, composition, ratios, etc), and symbolism. For example, some heavy metal music might be perceived as "unaesthetic" or unpleasant, yet it carries deep meaning for someone who's best friends hear that music. Or went to a festival and met wonderful people there. All this meaning gives it "symbolic beauty".
Other than "old" engineers which could obviously be valuable - I think having everyone finding their place in society is a great vision to have. Makes me happier seeing old, or even disabled people fulfill themselves
Human beings are so bad at responding to intangible threats. The worried minority have no choice but to take the unpleasant role of waking up the others
2 years ago I bought AC for my bedroom. Before then, I didn't have AC in bedroom. It is now utterly impossible to live without it. Since beginning of July, we have a high of ~33c, low of ~25c, with ~75% humidity every single day until today. This is insane. It was never been like this
Yes, most people are aware of it. But the common comment I get from people is that it's not going to disrupt our lives very soon. And I bet the disruption will come much faster than they think
My anxiety about global warming is more intense than ever lately. I feel like most people around me don't realize it. It's a lonely feeling. And I feel uncomfortable bringing it up and ruining others' mood. My fear is that it happens much faster than everyone think it is
Does music helps you concentrate when you need to think hard on a problem? For example, trying to visualize the workings of an algorithm, or other complicated concept?
I personally like music in background maybe for monotonic or dull kind of work
I don't believe Music really aids concentration. Maybe it encourages the worker to stay in the office and work, because it makes the environment more enjoyable overall, and at the cost of less concentration - in my opinion. It is like adding sugar to swallow a bitter medicine
I love Music and art, while I realize it doesn't contribute anything practical to my life. Rather, it is the very thing I live for.
Web searching is one of the most important skills for everyone. The world today seems to me like a place with abundance of tools. More tools than one can imagine. Seems like the frontier separating one from solving any problem, is search. Search for the right tools that surely exist. So tool-searching tool would be a heck of a tool