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Ask HN: Things that suck?
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#92Learning. Why does it take so long?! Specifically, language learning. I wish I could plug a USB drive into my skull and download the ability to speak a new language.
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#93Maybe a HN company can fix home automation. Home automation seems to be like personal computers around 1980: you can do it but it's expensive, you don't get a lot of functionality, and you have to do a lot of hacking yourself. Some specific pain points: walking outside and pushing little buttons to adjust the irrigation timer. Walking outside to turn on the hot tub. Manually putting a light on a timer when traveling.…
You can now use https://news.ycombinator.com/active to get around the penalty thing.
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#94The way the internet is addictive. I still haven't found the discipline to stop wasting time.
I've found this plugin showing your exact age to be pretty helpful. Shows up on the new tab page https://github.com/maccman/motivation
That is way too many significant digits. Also no instructions on how to install it.
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#95All things that require getting other people to simultaneously change to a new standard. E.g. things with lock-in or network effects. They are almost always suboptimal in some significant way, but no one can do anything about it. This seems to be the root of a lot of the problems posted here.
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#96Refrigerator shelves
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#97The failure of Democracy to scale.
More specifically, the failure of people who would have common cause within some topic to actually come together over that cause and effect a change. Instead, people seemingly fall victim to 'wedge issues', reactionary prejudices, and etc.
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#98Temperature: I can't stand more than 25 °C (well, I can, but I don't like it). Big software: I missed the old times where you just needed a text editor and a terminal in order to "create" computer programs. Nowadays it seems that you need IDEs (specially in mobile development), frameworks, unit testing frameworks, CI servers; and you have all types of "mini software programs" you have to use just because your team sa…
You can buy pre-loaded credit cards at gas stations in the US, although I'm not sure how they work for online orders.
Just fine, I've used temp cards several times for that exact use-case.
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#99Driving. I want to be able to look out the windows or work or whatever I want to do. Power. I'm so tired of my devices running out of juice. Road trips and festivals etc become much less fun when I have to continually worry about how to charge my phone or laptop. Craigslist: They shut down services like padmapper but continue to give us a totally shit interface to work with. Finding a place to live, in particular, is…
+1 to driving. It feels like such a waste of potentially productive time. You can't even use it to think out complex problems, because you have to pay attention to, yknow, driving.
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#100Earlier quoted context omitted.
I've found this plugin showing your exact age to be pretty helpful. Shows up on the new tab page https://github.com/maccman/motivation
That is way too many significant digits. Also no instructions on how to install it.
It's just a plugin, go the chrome app store