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I like how everything around the Metaverse is basically like a "Silicon Valley" storyline.

I'm kind of sad they're now officially dumping it, it was always so much fun to see completely fake sponsored discussions on the Metaverse and Metaverse ads in podcasts, and book publications about it. There's something satisfying about watching that whole universe of cognitive dissonance and pretense. Like a sandbox demonstration of the fake hype this industry often indulges in.

Meta: Love the simplicity of the page, no bullshit.

Funny handwritten html artifact though:

    <title> <h1>Rob Pike's 5 Rules of Programming</h1> </title>

Brand fonts are typically a specific license by the original creator of the font, often together with some adjustments (e.g. big companies often need additions for global markets that were not in the smaller original font)

> in an unaired segment

checks out

Regarding quality, I have noticed a considerable decline in non-on-demand quality of paperback books in recent years as well. Paper is often really bad, printing quality even worse. Very often the text is grayish pixelated, I'm guessing this is because the publishers have stored some subpar digitized version of prior editions, which on reprints comes out like an ereader from 20 years ago.

I often specifically look up old or first print editions of books (paperback or hardcover) and then buy them used from Abebooks etc.

However, the quality of the on-demand books via Amazon is hit and miss. It's not universally bad. Sometimes it is very good paper and sharp print. Sometimes it is cheapish white copy paper. The covers are universally bad. In Berlin they apparently come from Poland.

I also got on demand books in similar qualities from other German book sellers (buecher.de for example). On their page at least it's somewhat recognizable that it will be on demand, because they have some details about the manufacturer (themselves in this case).

I'm not necessarily against those on demand books, but I would really like if Amazon and other sites would

- let me know when I have to expect those books

- customize the quality options (e.g. paper color)

One of the odd things about Hackers is how it created a cultural feedback loop. When it came out, the style it showed was pretty weird and kind of campy, but I think it got integrated into actual hacker culture over time (e.g. visible in hacker spaces, conferences, online culture etc), and because of that today the movie as a whole seems less weird than originally.

This experience of different devices competing for a BT headphone is really the most annoying aspect of BT to me. I pair my headphones regularly with my work laptop, my phone and my private laptop, and when working from home and walking around in my apartment, the headphones sometimes just randomly pick another device, even if the current device has audio going, and the other does nothing. Sometimes the Macbook does that when it's on standby, which is bizarre. I always wondered if that is an implementation bug on one of the sides. I fixed it by forcing the Macbook to shut off BT when going on standby.

This is very true. Especially for sport, they are just great. I always found wired headphones annoying when running, because I need to take care of the wire somehow. Wired-together bluetooth in-ears like the Bose SoundSport kind of fill that niche, as I don't need to worry about one of them falling out. Looks like they don't make them anymore.

[1] https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/conf/#opt-kitty.allow_hyperl...

fwiw, in kitty you can configure it [1] to confirm opening a link:

    allow_hyperlinks ask

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Sad state of HN in 2026.

Congratulations for not getting the point. Which was that for the scammer this is a business transaction, and if they can get an early signal that it is not going to work, they can cancel and get to the next one. So they optimize for any potential candidates to get off as early as possible if they figure it isn't going to happen.

It's actually a valuable signal to the phone scammer if you're mean, because that means they can stop wasting their own effort of scamming you, and call somebody else.

There was actually a one-time post in December as well http://blog.fefe.de/?mon=202512

I get the naming from the other thread, but is any of this particularly Microsoft-specific? Google creates a mess in search and their docs as well, slop code is one the main artifact of all these AI tools, and bloat, hallucinations and the sloppification of web content is a general problem.

Microstreisand?

This reads like a Jeopardy answer for "What is stoicism?"

"Not learning from history because the present is the present" is a pretty accurate description of the world in 2026, at least.

Finally someone brings this place the explicit toxicity it had been missing all those years. /s

I would be more worried charging that huge home built battery pack. I'm sure OP knows what he's doing, but I wouldn't want to bet my house on it.

fwiw, works fine in my Firefox in reader mode

Now we only need tiny drones that locate those glasses, grab them and drop them on the nearby street.

Looks like there is also a shorter essay version that came out before the book https://flugschriften.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/flugsch...

edit: The essay is from 2020

I wish I had that much typing to do that I could rationalize the expense of such a fancy keyboard :D

Also, unfortunately for the high price point it's too hard to actually try those out somewhere. Maybe works if you have friends, but I'm not going to spend hundreds on sth only to find out it doesn't work for me after half an hour. There's probably an option to send sth back, but even that is going to be a nightmare with small vendors.

Sneakers

Obsidian is very flexible, and what a lot of these "how I use Obsidian" tutorials miss is to give a reason why the person is actually using it the way they are using it. Seems like this guy is using it mostly to store meeting notes or journaling. Of the many influencery Obsidian tutorials on Youtube, 99% of them seem to be using it to keep notes for creating Obsidian tutorials.

Would be interesting to have differing perspectives from people with different problems and how they use it for those cases.

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> The tea drinking twin died first at the age of 83, long after the death of Gustav III, who was assassinated in 1792.

So

being King << drinking Tea < drinking Coffee

Maybe we should post when it's up