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Started as a testing account and now I find it hard to actually throw it away.
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throwaway689236··on Monads are like burritos (2009)
Yeah, seems like a lot of articles are written just to have a catchy title.
throwaway689236··on Notion Calendar
Is there a calendar that can show the whole year and mark days with different colors if there are all-day events? For some reason calendar apps don't treat year view as something important which is crazy to me. I like to have an overview when planning vacations and stuff like that.
throwaway689236··on We have used too many levels of abstractions
They serve a purpose.
throwaway689236··on Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses
Same could be said about headphones, yet here we are.
throwaway689236··on Game developers turning off all IronSource and Unity Ads monetization
Heartstone is Unity, Witcher card game by CDPR may be as well.
throwaway689236··on Ask HN: I’m an FCC Commissioner proposing regulation of IoT security updates
> Voluntary certification, please. Second this, otherwise it'll just put smaller companies without enough resources at disadvantage.
throwaway689236··on We’re all just temporarily abled
I'm using Earasers, it actually makes music sound better and I don't have any ringing in my ears after the concert.
throwaway689236··on Show HN: Non.io, a Reddit-like platform Ive been working on for the last 4 years
As an option, to rank items, you can use the amount of money that the item has earned instead of just the number of upvotes. You can even replace upvotes number in the UI as well. This way frequent meme-upvoters will have less sway over more picky users. It'd be easier to register astroturfing accounts and to promote something to the top, though.
throwaway689236··on Memory Allocation
Agreed, I wish I had more thing like this growing up.
throwaway689236··on Wearing an eye mask during sleep improves episodic learning and alertness
I was a restless sleeper until I've learnt to sleep on my back. Try it for a week, it really is a superior position to sleep in.
throwaway689236··on Ask HN: What is stressing you out, what do you do to stay sane?
I lift. Running is even better, if it's your jam.
throwaway689236··on Guidelines for Brutalist Web Design (2018)
I think that they should change the font, other than that it would be ideal.
throwaway689236··on Composable Moderation
I guess you could create a global set of labels specifically for that and make the client apply rules corresponding with the local laws.
throwaway689236··on Mastodon is doomed?
Nostr solves this problem, your identity is defined by a private+public key pair, you own your account and history instead of the node admin.
throwaway689236··on GUI development with Rust and GTK 4
> At least with obj-c these errors will only pop up at runtime

But it's not a good thing. There's still an error, you're just increasing the chance to miss it.

throwaway689236··on Ask HN: What key feature(s) is missing from Mastadon?
That you don't own your identity and history, it can be deleted on a whim of a local instance administrator. Basically that it's not Nostr, but Nostr even less popular than Mastodon.
throwaway689236··on Almost three quarters of the golden age of Hollywood has been lost
It's hard not to recall Gabe Newell's "Piracy is almost always a service problem and not a pricing problem". Steam and Spotify offer a really good service, and a lot of people find it not worth it to pirate stuff.
throwaway689236··on Almost three quarters of the golden age of Hollywood has been lost
Intellectual property is not really a property, it's a limited time monopoly preference. If you have a chair as your property, it doesn't magically become public property in N years, it's yours forever. Because it's a real property, unlike IP.

More than that, IP is anti-property in nature, because it restricts you from using your real property, you can't use your printing press to print a book that you like.

I know that there's an argument to be made about authors wanting to eat, but that's a separate issue, it doesn't change the fact that IP is logically inconsistent and the "property" part is misleading.

throwaway689236··on What do you eat for productivity?
Eating on the same schedule, keeping the same portions and eating 4 times a day helps me. If I miss my window, I can feel my brain shutting down. Also I can't function on low carbs diet, so there's plenty of carbs in mine, but I try to exclude all things with high GI. I also eat plenty of protein rich products, but I don't think it affects my brain in any way. Works pretty good so far for me.
throwaway689236··on Dancing Plague of 1518
Reminds of a certain Buffy episode https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Once_More,_with_Feeling_(Buffy...
throwaway689236··on Thinking hard makes the brain tired
It's even worse when it happens when you go to bed.
throwaway689236··on Apple halted M2 chip production in January amid 'plummeting' Mac sales
Prices are high, but it's so hard to find something better than M macs right now, so until there's a competition, I'll be considering macs.
throwaway689236··on Google Drive does a surprise rollout of file limits, locking out some users
I even exclude them from my TimeMachine backup, they're pinned.
throwaway689236··on There's something off about LED bulbs
> will soon be, thanks to a federal ban, the only kind you can buy

I don't take issue with LED bulbs, but I would rather have a choice nonetheless.

throwaway689236··on Windows Sandbox
Sandboxie is great, didn't know there was a fork.
throwaway689236··on Twitter's Recommendation Algorithm
It's better than nothing.
throwaway689236··on Managers, stop distracting employees
The bigger the company, the less effective it is.
throwaway689236··on Launch HN: Vocode (YC W23) – Library for voice conversation with LLMs
Yes, that was a great idea on OP's part.
throwaway689236··on Alexa, what is my wifi password?
Indeed, comparing 14 old myself to OP makes me feel embarrassed.
throwaway689236··on Show HN: StratusGFX, my open-source real-time 3D rendering engine
Impressive! Images AND video is also an option.
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