Are you saying there is a vacuum? Because vacuum usually get filled with crazy militants

In other words: enshitification ensues!

When every company at once throws it at you it seems like something different. Someone called it baffleware. It's all too much to track/account for/adjust to, so you just comply. Kind of like Trump and Project 2025, but it's being done on a corporate level on everything in our lives.

I did this once and one time was forced into doing it and it was a horrific nightmare. The lack of contra for my legs meant I was constantly slipping forward, it was tiring. The fact that this is an emergency seat made it worse - there was no handle for the hand because of some bullshit. The flight attendant policed every action I did from putting my jacket on to eating with the attachable tray. I will never do it again even if it means I fly for free.

One of the most relaxed flights I ever had I was window seat in the back row with a pleasant elderly couple. When everyone else was busy queuing to get off the plane they were sat knitting. I'd got into my novel and just sat enjoying it until they moved. Far less stressful than the usual madness.

I love my car. And yet I really want to see all the cars eradicated from existence. At least from the public space.

We already may have hit the point where easier it is to make software, harder it is to sell (or make money from it).

There is no way I can convince a user that my vibe coded version of Todolist is better than 100 other made this week

Industries have come and gone for centuries and it doesn't always go horribly wrong.

Can this be solved by a random clock? A clock which never tells you the real time - it adds randomly 1-10 mins every morning

My question is if people can't adapt to it, would it be a helpful technique?

It would be interesting to experiment with providing people only with a sundial. :)))))

Happy new year from the middle east! May 2026 be a year of peace and compassion <3

So, they limit the access to data on self hosted instances after upgrade? Sounds like a ransomware with extra steps.

Enshitification ensues.

Anecdotally I stumbled upon this phenomenon when trying to learn how to play the piano. I noticed that at the end of a session I make so many mistakes and feel like I didn't learn that much, but coming back to it after a day or two I really felt the difference.

Motor learning is quite different from the type of information the article talks about. I tried adding dance moves into Anki to do spaced repetition and it's extremely obvious that it's a great way to remember a move very badly but never getting good at it. Compare that to the geography deck where Anki is just perfectly suited for the task and smashes it.

Do you have more experiences with learning dance moves and spaced repetition you can share? That sounds interesting. (Also what dance is it?)

Spaced repetition works well for motor learning. You just have to keep hitting “Again” until you are actually good at it.

I don't think that's very useful. You're saying basically treating anything except mastery as "I forgot". That's too much practice. It also doesn't take into considering that you are better of doing your reps later in the day (ie close to your sleep cycle).

Sure, you can sort of use SRS here, but it's suboptimal and probably will leave too many cards in the top priority "learning" pile causing too much load, or you train incorrectly.

Still, I agree that this is MUCH better than NOT doing SRS if you don't have an alternate tool with a better algorithm.

Learning to play an instrument feels like magic.

You fail the whole day.

Don't have the feeling anything sticks.

Then, the next day it works right from the start.

No new insights, nothing, it just works.

I am coaching table-tennis, and sometimes I tell people that we only actually "learn" while we sleep. So, without sleeping, the brain doesn't have time to "save" the new information for future use.

Not sure if it's factually correct, but it seems about right, sleeping seems to be the magic sauce, and the time when all memories are written from RAM to disk.

I never played any instrument, but I had the exact same experience getting through difficult stages in videogames.

Yes, me too.

It seems to be a thing with practicing motion sequences.

I've noticed the same thing with rote memory tasks like lines of poetry, so I think it might be a more general thing involving the memory consolidation properties of sleep, maybe particularly focused on fluency/speed rather than mere ability to recall.

It's not about stupid people, there are stupid people everywhere, it's about the .1% elite controlling all the wealth and power, using flaws in the ways humans work (stupid or not every human has to have shelter and food to survive).