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deckplecksetter··on Grokipedia Stopped Reviewing Edits in April. It Didn't Tell Anyone
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deckplecksetter··on Ask HN: Favorite text heavy blogs that are a joy to read?
I like the design of https://dbushell.com/blog/

Though mainly I just like the general 50s aesthetics of it, rather than specific UI elements.

deckplecksetter··on I let AI build a tool to help me figure out what was waking me up at night
I'm curious about this too. This is the first time I've heard of Garmin being a bad company.
deckplecksetter··on Wired headphone sales are exploding
For me, using Bluetooth headphones with my (Samsung) phone is smooth and trouble-free. The experience is miles better than wired headphones, and I would never go back. Meanwhile, connecting to my TV with Bluetooth is an exercise in pure frustration.

So it seems to me like the problem isn't Bluetooth, it's shitty implementations of it.

And it's not just cheap devices. My TV is a fancy LG OLED. For the price I paid it should handle Bluetooth just fine.

It's a real shame. When Bluetooth works, it's awesome, but a lot of people have had their opinions tainted by bad devices.

deckplecksetter··on My lobster lost $450k this weekend
I wish more people had watched Mrs. Davis, it was excellent.
deckplecksetter··on Windows 11 growth slows as millions stick with Windows 10
I wish I'd stuck with 10. I upgraded to 11 and it's just a slower, shittier version of 10.
deckplecksetter··on Known Anomalies in Unicode Character Names
We can find all the problems in Unicode by making a list of all the non-problematic characters and then circling the ones that aren't on the list.
deckplecksetter··on Firefox tab groups are here
Amazing news. This was the one thing keeping me from switching from Chrome to Firefox.
deckplecksetter··on Jeep owners fed up with in-car pop-up ads
Is there some kind of database for stuff like this, where people can report abusive products? That would be a great way to avoid such things while also naming and shaming companies who do it.
deckplecksetter··on What causes migraines? Study of 'brain blackout' offers clues
It was similar for me. I'd get migraines a few times a year. I couldn't find any food correlation, but it seemed to often happen the day after doing strenuous activity, sweating a lot and drinking a lot of water. I started to suspect it was related to lack of electrolytes, so I began taking electrolyte solution after running or any other sweaty activity. In the few years since then, the migraines have been much less frequent, and about half as intense.
deckplecksetter··on Moonwalkers: Shoes that make you walk faster (pre-order)
I did that once. I wanted to go for a run, and I also wanted to buy some soup spoons from Ikea. So I ran to Ikea (about 4km away), and had to walk through the store all smelly and sweaty. It felt inconsiderate to the people around me. Then I ran home holding the spoons. Running while holding things is awkward. So there's two reasons. I haven't done that sort of thing since.
deckplecksetter··on It's Not All In Your Head
This was funny, a few paragraphs in:

"For Freud, this was just another confirmation of his theories. He wrote in a letter to Fliess:

THIS IS THE FIRST OF YOUR THREE FREE ARTICLES FOR THE MONTH."

deckplecksetter··on Show HN: Remake – Build web apps with HTML
This looks interesting, I might give it a try over the weekend.
deckplecksetter··on What is Chia cryptocurrency and why is it bad news for hard drives?
If only someone could invent a cryptocurrency that incentivises something good instead of something harmful.
deckplecksetter··on Based Cooking
Ingredient from the curry recipe:

> More spinach than you think you need

What? Just tell me how much goddamn spinach to use.

deckplecksetter··on Show HN: A cool Drag-and-Drop implementation for Svelte
Not sure how similar it is, but react-beautiful-dnd is pretty nice. https://github.com/atlassian/react-beautiful-dnd
deckplecksetter··on Show HN: Ugliest.app – Ugly but good app platform
I love the simplicity of this. If it had a proper editor, I could totally see using this for small prototype webapps.
deckplecksetter··on How Did Software Get So Reliable Without Proof? (1996) [pdf]
It's used to some extent in the aviation industry for flight-critical software. So maybe huge in some contexts.
deckplecksetter··on Ask HN: As a Facebook or Google engineer, do you consider your company evil?
It's not that it's evil to make money. It's that the most effective ways to make lots of money tend to be unethical, so a company whose sole mandate is to make as much money as possible will tend towards evil acts.