Now I'm planning to read V for Vendetta, The Killing Joke, Batman: Year One, and some more. I've finally come around to comics as an art form, and I couldn't be happier!

For instance - I use uBlock Origin (with some great filter lists by yokoffing on github), Buster and Imagus on desktop; HyperWeb on iOS, and NextDNS on every device I have. I also have a couple of site-specific extensions for RYM, Letterboxd, X/Twitter et al.

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TL;DR - the book explains how humans are predictably irrational and how seeming cognitive ease in decisioning is simply laziness in action since the brain will substitute a tough decision for a similar but easy one! It has made me reflect upon why I think the way I do, helped me to remove most bias from my actions, and also has a great suggestion that you should ask others to check you if you sound stupid, which is not great for your ego but is necessary nonetheless.

I don't know if anyone even uses content-generating AIs like this for writing - but I'd be glad to change my mind by seeing some hard numbers. I mean, except for incomprehensible content-generated articles that pop up on searches only because of PageRank's flaws.

This is just ridiculous. If you're annoyed by the ads, get a subscription then.

I prefer to use the third option as few as possible, but I find myself having to use it more and more often as the years go by - geolocked content, huge swathes of content being removed on the whims of providers (The Office comes to mind), and 'originals' that are beyond even the so-bad-it's-good category that cannot even begin to fill the void left by the good content leaving.

I cannot ever see myself subscribing to a plethora of services - the best case is subscribing to a service when it's absolutely necessary (HBO/Hotstar) and then unsubscribing when you're done, which is not at all conducive to fulfilling long-term revenue plans of such services.

So what is the endgame of such services? Is it simply to build a huge catalog of content that you'll mindlessly devour whenever you're bored? Or something else?

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The best autocompletion I've seen is on Wikipedia - no frills, and extremely accurate. If only all services were like this.

And it's amazing to see Spotify grow so quickly. Almost all of the people I know (I'm guilty of the same) used a US free-tier account, and sideloaded modded applications to listen to Spotify. I used to think that was piracy as usual, but now all of us are on 1-year subscriptions. The price sensitivity ($9.99/month in US vs $1.68/month in India) does obviously make a difference.

[1] - http://briandeer.com/mmr/lancet-paper.htm

[2] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lancet_MMR_autism_fraud

[3] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Wakefield#Epidemics,_ef...

Nowadays after I finish the book, I try to review the books I've read on Instagram in the form of a post or a story - some people go to the extent of unfollowing me (seeing it as a stupid use case for the service), but some people I know IRL have also started reading the same books I finish.

Not every distraction is a force for evil.

Programming exercises involve a single line or two, and that too in Octave - which was all the rage back when the course was launched, but it's not so useful now.

Instead, start with this - https://www.fast.ai

It emphasizes practicality to the extreme - you are only taught theory/domain knowledge when needed. The instructor's amazing, the massive scale of knowledge imparted boggles the mind, and you feel like you've accomplished something when you're finished with it.

Best of all, it's free. And you can start Deep Learning there too when you're done with ML, if you feel the need (or interest).

I've been grappling with social media addiction for a long, long time (I'm 22) - whether it be checking old chats on WhatsApp/Telegram/FB Messenger, infinite scrolling on Reddit, deleting my Insta account and creating one again (just 6 months later), or becoming needlessly aggravated by political hysteria on Facebook (especially after reading about Indian and US politics).

I'm sick and tired of it. Even if there's no new content to browse, I read old content, because at this point, my fingers reach subconsciously for these apps.

How do I battle this? Even though I want to sleep before 12 am, I rarely do so before 3 am, because I cannot sleep without two hours of mindlessly scrolling through anything. My average daily sleep over 4 years has reduced from 8-9 hours to 5-6 hours.

Social media has also killed my originality - where as previously, I used to hold opinions of my own, now I just love reading reactionary, "clickhole" like content (where you don't need to consciously think to hold/make an opinion), and my social feeds reflect that.

I consciously realize that it is slowly killing me from inside, and I'm still hesitant about withdrawal, but I now realize there's a safe social media limit, which I crossed a long time back. I want to return to at least that stage.

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Although the user is definitely compromising on security, the speed of face unlock is such that it is near-instantaneous. Double tap the display, and you don't even have to blink - the phone unlocks.

It may be a gimmick in the early days of Android (think Nougat or even Oreo), but it's definitely not a gimmick now, for me at least. It's fast enough to have proved its worth.