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I’m in a similar situation. I’m just saying that I know a lot of people who work much harder than me, without anywhere near the same financial freedom. I think it’s good to meditat…

I’m making no comment about how things _should_ broadly be. Only that we should consciously appreciate how rare it is for quitting to be a practical, and non-ruinous, option.

What an utterly privileged life we lead when we can just decide to quit our jobs because things are getting too “absurd”.

I, like most people, always just click whatever option is larger and easier to click (or closest to my cursor at the time). It never seems to matter to my experience which I pick. …

It’s true. AI slop is not what will kill the fun Internet. It’s just the mechanisation of the forces that already killed it.

Is there anything out there that is the opposite of this? Like a directory of old things that are, against all odds, still alive

There is no realistic scenario where, no matter your extractions or bean selections, 6-10 shots of espresso a day is not an enormous amount of caffeine

Right there with you. Everyone else on HN is a genius so will love it, but for me this is just incoherent words.

Why not both! Delicious caffeinated in the morning, less-delicious-but-still-quite-nice decaf after 12:00. You don’t need to go entirely caffeine-free to enjoy most of the benefits…

The Purrrr app (which shows feeders like this) is really quite an experience. It’s just as hyperactive as a Temu or AliExpress, with as much dopamine hacking as a TikTok, but… for …

stop putting them in control of aircraft then

We have a TonieBox that has been much loved by one kid, and now another. And even though everything in my being is telling me to hack it to make it do cool things (mostly because o…

I also use a notebook and pen constantly as a software engineer - but never when I need any of the properties you just mentioned. It is absolutely the wrong tool for any long-term …

Sure, "toxic" is word that means bad things. But I don't think you read the article. It only talks about the levels in the soil. It says nothing about what impact this has on the f…

Oh I was just talking about the “transmitting to the server _at all_” part, but yeah some end-to-end encryption would be nice.

It has to, how would it deliver the password to the URL’s recipient otherwise? I suppose to keep it fully stateless you could encode the password in the URL itself somehow, but the…

When my career was just beginning (maybe choosing to freelance on day 1 was the mistake), if a client was even a couple of grand behind on invoices then I would have been toast fin…

“Paper Apps” seems like an overly snobby and infantilizing term for something we already had a term for: Puzzle Books / Notebooks.

How many early adopters of _any_ novel technology are male? Is it roughly 85% perhaps?

Isn’t this technically the original _Steam_ UI, not just Counter Strike?

This reminded me of a game but I couldn’t remember which one. I opened this comment thread hoping someone would know, and you delivered. Thank you!

To be clear, this is not Google getting it wrong. This is the AI-generated slop website getting it wrong, Google is just pulling an extract.

I have somewhere between 0 and ~60 years left to live. I don’t trust this service (or any service!) to remain active and live for even 5 of those years.

You're absolutely right, but the article we're talking about misses the point. It focusses on the sensational-sounding part of this, the implication that people will blindly take t…

Something I've wondered: how much has AI/ML _helped_ actors' careers by providing effective content recommendation algorithms, drawing more engaged eyeballs to their work?