washmyelbows

proton too

its weirdly endearing in the age of LLMs to see a word like company misspelled in a blog post

I mean, the person is looking for a cleaner in their area. If all of the cleaning businesses in the area slash their marketing budget to 0, the author is not going to fail to find a cleaner. All the marketing budget is doing is funneling people who want cleaning to one cleaning company over another.

fantastic username

The article goes on to say the exact opposite of the headline. Bluesky users are celebrating the death of Charlie Kirk, it's simply not the majority of them

Not much yellow on the web

Couldn't agree more on many of these points. There is so much 'whatever' everywhere on the web that I legitimately don't understand people being interested in the platforms that suck everyone's time. Its frustrating as someone who used to enjoy the early web a lot and it's frustrating to see people that I have a lot of respect for buying into these awful systems with their time and attention. Worse still, I'm something of an outsider in many situations for opting out of them.

The author lost me a little on the AI rant. Yes, everything and everyone is shoving LLMs into places that I don't want it. Just today Bandcamp sent me an email about upcoming summer albums that was clearly in part written by AI. You can't get away from it, it's awful. That being said, the tooling for software development is so powerful that I feel like I'd be crazy not to use it. I save so so much time with banal programming tasks by just writing up a paragraph to cursor about what I want and how I want it done.

so I guess you just don't read ebooks?

wow - I've quickly found 2 songs that are better than anything I've discovered in weeks

There's also a ton of multi sale per person in overwatch. Especially before role queue existed, it was easier to just spend 10 bucks on a new account to learn a hero than to suffer ELO hell while doing it. People are so toxic in competitive shooters, and playing at the ELO of your best heroes while on a hero you don't even know the abilities of is very very unpleasant. I struggle to think of a person I played with that didn't have multiple accounts, some with as many as 5-10.

This is to say nothing of the rampant cheating in the game, which if a person ever gets banned for, there is nothing stopping them from just spending 10$ on a replacement account.

Agreed. It's so painless to use and yet the adoption is so bad

my favorite stout is 400 calories for 12oz

There's a lot of people downplaying the importance of genuine online comments but the reality is that (outside of the bubbles lives in by many HN users) millions upon millions of people are meaningfully participating and forming their viewpoints based on them.

I suspect even the 'well I never trust online comments!' crowd here is not as immune to propaganda as they'd like to believe themselves to be

there is a very large collection of old catalogs on archive.org for people interested in looking at old print advertisements

12ft.io seemed to stop being useful almost immediately after gaining any amount of popularity

Trees good, study finds

the post office scans the exterior, not the contents. That is a significant difference.

Are these types of restaurants actually going away or are crappy chains just going under because better alternatives are a dime a dozen?

The inability to get a TV/stream box without some kind of ads cooked in infuriates me to no end, and it just feels like it's getting worse

LCP markets itself as an open standard, but has made multiple platforms unusable for me as a kobo user. Aggressively seeking out content like this and trying to bully away fixes for the tiny portion of the market it is helping is reprehensible

I spent a good chunk of time at a small company trying to mitigate spam, it always felt like an uphill battle that google just did significantly better than I could. I'm not one to usually advocate outsourcing services that my department could provide, but it felt like the right call to outsource email so that it would be better for the users.

"Only about 10% of players ever gain more than 100 points, and only about 1% of players gain more than 200 rating points given years."

This seems like a wild claim. On chess.com I've gone from 500 to ~1050 in a handful of months without any real study, just some light YouTube watching. 500->800 felt like all it took was learning a few openings and not blundering pieces. 800-1050 felt like it came mostly from getting familiar with the common patterns from those openings that led to advantages/disadvantages. Most of my learning here came from reviewing my own games and trying to understand why my mistakes were mistakes.

I don't understand how people learn from slamming blitz/bullet games. The time constraints are too rushed to really think about what makes a move good or bad. I assumed it was a young person's thing, but the author said he plays these quick formats too.

same here!

If I could go back, I would've learned colemak for the keyboard shortcut reasons people have outlined in other comments, but I don't have it in me to learn another layout at this point.

yup. weekly trivia nights at the pub did it for us. most of us are drinkers, but for those that aren't there's still dinner, a fun activity and good company

is there energy loss with transferring power 2300 miles? how significant?

page 10 lists over 2 million in government grants

return to office

I'll be lucky if I can afford a single family home after 20 years of software engineering in the US. halfway there now, we'll see. Moving to a senior position has helped but I feel like a lot of people forget that the compensation in SV is not normal in other places.

isn't this kind of thing common in US politics? what makes this specifically actionable?