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'Hacker News'? I thought it was 'Twitter News' these days.

Meanwhile other users have the opposite complaint: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33648369

It's an optimization problem that never reaches anyone's optimum!

Question: why not write custom code to ping yourself at email when someone @dang?

Just curious because I would have figured it would do something given how often everyone uses it.

I don't know. Maybe because it's better for it to require a bit of activation energy.

Right, I'm talking about over a timespan of like 10 years.