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butterguns··on Health advisory on social media use in adolescence
Rather than respond to you directly, I'll quote more from OP (a sly maneuver, I know):

> If that [Power of Habit book] was taught as a class in high school, it might eliminate long-term drug addiction.

No.

The book "Power of Habit", while incredibly valuable and informative, will not have this effect. If you believe otherwise, you have no understanding of the root causes of long-term addiction.

butterguns··on Health advisory on social media use in adolescence
> I read Power of Habit, so I can easily quit things

I mean no ill-intent, but this feels like an incredibly naive thing to say. The inference "I read X book, therefore I am immune to / protected from addiction".

butterguns··on Can AI-Generated Text Be Reliably Detected?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headline...
butterguns··on Keep your AI claims in check
In my experience, chatgpt is incredibly wordy / verbose. This doesn't read as chatgpt output at all.
butterguns··on CPSC calls for full recall of all Onewheel self-balancing electric skateboards
My first over-the-handlebars resulted in a fractured Greater Tuberosity. Pretty sure I reached my arm out to catch myself. Terrible decision.
butterguns··on CPSC calls for full recall of all Onewheel self-balancing electric skateboards
I know how to fall (intellectually). How do I translate that into the real world? I took a nasty fall on my MTB this summer, broke my shoulder. Everything was instinctual and a blur. Can we somehow retrain our innate responses?
butterguns··on CPSC calls for full recall of all Onewheel self-balancing electric skateboards
I rode a Boosted Board for the best part of 1 year on the streets of Brooklyn. I ended up selling it; although I absolutely loved the experience, I knew one day I would rip my face off if I encountered even a small pothole.
butterguns··on Google Adsense/Admob blocks you for life if you use it before you're 18
Presumably because the Date of Birth on the account is immutable, and the son's ID (even when he becomes 18) will never match it?
butterguns··on U.S. annual inflation rate drops to 8.5%
State of New Hampshire, 112% increase: https://www.puc.nh.gov/Regulatory/Orders/2022orders/Document...
butterguns··on Meld for Macs
Would love to know how it compares to Beyond Compare, which is the tool I've been using for the last decade on the Mac
butterguns··on Game Design Tips from Tom Hall (1994)
For me, I just felt that brought on a sense of monotony. The entire sequence could take a good couple of hours. Good game design drives you onwards because you're excited about what's coming next (the same rule applies with good novel writing). I would instead groan to myself and think "ugh, again?".

The story was the redeeming feature throughout this sequence however.

butterguns··on Game Design Tips from Tom Hall (1994)
"- Don't make the player go all the way to the end, then all the way to the beginning, then all the way to the end again."

I'm looking at you, Metal Gear Solid.