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devonnull··on The HN UI is terrible
>I am wondering if YC would be happy if all of their startups produced sites that took this approach

I don't think YC would give a flyin' whatever ...

devonnull··on Qantas Sold Tickets for Already Canceled Flights, Watchdog Group Says
Another reason for that koala to hate Qantas?
devonnull··on Pointless Sites
The web definitely needs more whimsy like this!
devonnull··on [dead]
C'mon, don't leave us hanging!
devonnull··on Ask HN: Do you do something else while you work?
I listen to Soma.fm -- changing stations every hour or so. At lunch or when taking a break, I scan the news or read a longer article. Sometimes, I spend 10 minutes fiddling with ChatGPT just for the hell of it.
devonnull··on Ask HN: What VPN service are you currently using?
Like a couple of other commenters, I use Proton VPN. I have an unlimited Proton account, so I decided to take advantage of that.
devonnull··on PSA: Load docs for use offline w/ devdocs.io *before* your flight
It's as good a time as any?
devonnull··on Ask HN: Is This a Viable Meta-Killer?
All the best with that ...
devonnull··on Buyers of Bored Ape NFTs sue after digital apes turn out to be bad investment
Digital apes a bad investment? Who'd have thought ...
devonnull··on The brothels of Paris closed down to mourn Victor Hugo's death
That kind of loyalty to a customer is hard to find these days.
devonnull··on Show HN: Can you go an hour without touching your phone?
In short, yes. Mainly because I keep it out of easy reach most of the time. I can still get to it, but I have to make a bit of effort to do that. Then, of course, there are those few hours that I sleep each night ... :-)
devonnull··on Ask HN: Best tool to proof-read technical documentation?
A good human proofreader? :-) Though I do second the suggestion about Vale.
devonnull··on [dead]
I doubt if any random Apple employee on HN can just make that happen ...
devonnull··on Thunderbird’s “Export” feature just corrupted my OS
Did you report this to MZLA or Ubuntu? Or just post this here?

And I have to agree with another commenter: this doesn't sound like an application bug. Something else seems to be at play.

devonnull··on Why don't more people use desktop Linux? I have a theory you might not like
The problem in the writer's eyes? The "lack of a representative version of Linux"
devonnull··on Ask HN: How to Document APIs
Here's a good tutorial: https://idratherbewriting.com/learnapidoc/
devonnull··on Thunk Notes
Looks a lot like an online version of Logseq, but a bit more stripped down. Only available on the web or on MacOS
devonnull··on Bye, Gemini
The author of that post makes a good point: using Gemini offers no advantage over how I already use the Web. I think that goes for more than a few people, and not just the author.

Admittedly, I've never dived deeply into Geminispace, but it's never held my interest. Like the author of that post, I can get all of what I need online with my web browser and RSS feed reader.

But, hey, if you enjoy using Gemini (as a reader or a creator or both), then stick with it!

devonnull··on Why “anomie” is eroding the soul of our society
Huge swaths of that essay could have been written by my father ... Seriously, though, what's wrong with being an individual? With asserting that individuality in your own way? And how does that erode the soul of our society?
devonnull··on Ask HN: As a developer, do you write 10k-20k lines of code a day?
Maybe you could write 10K or 20K lines of code a day. But would those lines of code be any good? I very much doubt it.

If you're going for quality, the number will be less. Much, much less. Maybe 100 to 150 lines of code. On a good day.

Just because a chatbot says it's possible doesn't mean it's possible.

devonnull··on Ask HN: What are you using after Twitter?
Nothing. Quit Twitter in 2016, and haven't looked back or at any alternatives. I wasn't getting anything out of social media and, even after looking at alternatives, I was just put off by the sameness of it all.
devonnull··on Ask HN: Refurbished Devices
My last couple or three devices -- phone, tablet, laptop -- have been refurbished and there's nothing cheap about them. As you pointed out, aside from a small drop in the capacity of the battery for each one, and maybe some barely noticeable wear, they've been fine.

As for them being unsanitary, it doesn't take long to clean and sanitize a device. It's not expensive, either. To be honest, I thoroughly cleaned the three devices I mentioned after they arrived.

devonnull··on RIP Bram Moolenaar (by me, vi/Vim user for decades)
I'm not a big vi/Vim user, but I admired Moolenaar for his work on the editor and for his advocacy of ICCF Holland. Definitely a big loss.
devonnull··on Useful, open-source and planet-friendly phone [French]
That's an interesting little project. It's (more than) a bit beyond my skills to try, but it's great to see someone doing something like this. Even if it's to scratch their own itch.
devonnull··on The Glass Teat
It's been years since I last read The Glass Teat books. Even though the references are dated, the core arguments of the book still held up. I wouldn't be surprised if that's still the case.
devonnull··on Sorry, Elon: Our smartphones are already ‘everything apps’
Because it's OK if their guy does it. According to them, he's working on the side of the angels and to better humanity. Whatever that means.
devonnull··on (When) Photocopiers Terrified the Publishing World
As someone (not me!) said, what's new is old again.
devonnull··on Sorry, Elon: Our smartphones are already ‘everything apps’
And you're not putting all the functions that everything app can perform under one company's umbrella. That centralizes too much control into one set of hands. And I wouldn't trust Musk (or anyone, really) with that kind of control.
devonnull··on Bookmarks and saves have become like snooze buttons
Or those who stuff everything into a read-it-later app or so-called second brain tool in the hope that they'll get to all (or just some) of it "one day". That day rarely, if ever, comes.
devonnull··on I Spent Last Year Training with Steven Kotler–Here’s What Happened Next
This reads more like an advertorial than anything else.
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