The long-term solution to the never ending distractions is going to be more tech, not less. We are seeing the start of it with Apple building out the focus modes on iOS, but there's lots of ground to cover. Imagine that all the productivity apps, i.e. slack and email, leverage AI to help prioritize and schedule what you need to respond to. For example, you could imagine your inbox giving you one notification after two hours with a prioritized list of emails to respond to. At the end of the week, if you haven't responded or read emails that fit a certain pattern, it will suggest filtering these emails to another folder.
This is a little more complex with social media, where the goal is to drive engagement time as much as possible. Not really sure what would fix this, other than users manually setting up their own screen time limits. Legislation might be able to accomplish something, but that feels very heavy handed and would likely have poor execution considering how out of touch politicians are. Perhaps Apple could build in some OS features that would identify social media addiction and gently nudge users to take breaks.
The dumb phone idea is interesting and highlights how much of a current issue this is, but doesn't feel like a realistic solution for the broader public
Although true, I have found it to be frustrating in practice compared to the simplicity of running a standard API locally. I have even seen some people rig their lambdas to accept a boolean param which changes it to a standard server to get around this.
I think lambdas are great but the current tooling needs to advance a bit more for adoption to really take off imo
I guess I should have been more specific, how about 95%+ of the population? I just more often than not hear this line of thinking from people who definitely could look better but choose not to put in the effort to do so. In general I do agree its a problem, but its one people have actual agency over.
Yeah of course those things are out of control. My point is that the things you can control have a huge impact. Maybe you can never be a 10/10 because of some specific flaw, but you could likely be at least an 8. Also flaws tend to be seen more as quirks in more "attractive" people.
Although this is a real phenomenon, individuals do possess the ability to improve their looks. With maybe a couple exceptions, nearly everyone can become very attractive if they take care of themselves, dress well, and lead a healthy lifestyle.
Really cool idea! I've tried the zoom breakout rooms, and they get the job done for my use case, but its a bit clunky and doesn't seem to support shuffling of groups at a regular interval
Yeah there are definitely a number of limitations if you are using just alpaca (which I limited myself to for this), which is why this project is intended for just a few basic use cases.
Heard about alpaca a while back, so I made this as a small fun side project. The main features are buying, selling, and viewing stocks. In the future I may add additional features if I find something I want to add (or others want to add).
It's pretty simple, it uses alpaca as the brokerage account and will support buying, selling, and viewing stocks. Any other features I'll add later based on feedback/my own experience.
Not quite ready to put out the repo link publicly but you can email me at andrewnegri1 [at] gmail [dot] com and I can send it to you
Been working on a CLI tool for stock trading since I tried to look for one and it doesn't seem to exist. Was also a fun excuse to get more experience with Go and try out the Cobra library.
Besides that, lots of more involved cooking and baking projects to fill the time. I'll come out of this ready to be a stay at home dad!
If you're getting bored, maybe some gamification would do the trick. This game can be done fairly quickly, but covers the fundamentals of flexbox very well (https://flexboxfroggy.com/)
This is a little more complex with social media, where the goal is to drive engagement time as much as possible. Not really sure what would fix this, other than users manually setting up their own screen time limits. Legislation might be able to accomplish something, but that feels very heavy handed and would likely have poor execution considering how out of touch politicians are. Perhaps Apple could build in some OS features that would identify social media addiction and gently nudge users to take breaks.
The dumb phone idea is interesting and highlights how much of a current issue this is, but doesn't feel like a realistic solution for the broader public