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Your comment is shockingly low in the rankings. Anyone who upvoted the parent is being absolutely ravished by confirmation bias. Yes the US has big problems, but that doesn't mean …

There's a cool site I like: news.ycombinator.com

Ok, so if you want to read https://www.bitsaboutmoney.com/ , which is now publishing less than once a month, you prefer to refresh the website once a week hoping there's an article…

This is like saying that because some (or many) people are bad at taking notes and highlighting, taking notes and highlighting is a bad idea. It's a skill like anything else. You g…

The purpose of the fake birthday is not to protect random website credentials. It's to prevent someone with that data from walking into my bank and impersonating me. I started givi…

Alternatively, you can easily add the bloat, discover if it has real value, and then strip it without the bad feeling of having sunk countless hours creating it. Vibe coding is exc…

You can also reduce team size by employing insane, life-destroying crunch time.

The no hassle returns from Amazon mitigate everything. I recently bought direct from someone and had to return because they didn't send the advertised item. I had to pay return shi…

You are not wrong, but I just don't have time. My choices are pay someone or throw my hands up. I have been paying backblaze. But I recently had a drive die, and discovered the bac…

You can get by just fine in the US without a credit card too. At least if you have a debit card (which can pretend to be a credit card in most situations). We were actually unscore…

They said go every day, not do intense workouts every day. Plenty of things you can do at a gym that don't require recovery days. Being there so much should confer some social bene…

I envy your life of peaceful routine. For me every evening is a trip into the unknown. Sure some things repeat on the same days. But there is always something new. This week the on…

Posting like this is an anti-pattern. "Everyone wants what I want, and if you don't build it my way you are stupid." Props to teams that can find some value in feedback like this, …

I read the bug as notepad can launch unsafe links by delegating them to the OS to open.

I think we overestimate the amount of reading, writing, and thinking that occurred before LLMs.

It's hard for me to imagine anyone balking at this feature. My core note taking workflow frequently involves: 1. Note about blah 2. Paste link to blah 3. Open that link later when …

If we use our tungsten to make quality Big Mining Drills ( https://wiki.factorio.com/Big_mining_drill ), we can improve the efficiency of known resource patches.

Accessibility is for all user experiences, not just websites. WCAG is still a good resource for native apps even where some specifics do not 100% apply. If Qwasm is referring to Qu…

It's good to know that "Linux is only free if your time is worthless" still holds true after all these years. From the way many talk, I honestly thought it might have changed.

Article points are mostly all valid, don't give your loyalty in return for abuse, etc. etc. But I've been at my employer 11 years now and I have greatly prospered. They took care o…

If you never pick up a pen to sign a birthday card, thank you note, or wedding album, that's a symptom you are too isolated!

A common mistake in accessibility is to assume accessibility is mostly for users who are blind. I've rarely seen the opposite approach, calling something accessible that is very mu…

Copyright, and patents, are not based on moral principles. It's a temporary government license meant to encourage innovation and hustle. Whether it works or not, I don't know. But …

When you achieve expertise you know when to break the rules. Until then it is wise to avoid premature optimization. In many cases understandable code is far more important. I was w…