I actually like the font even though my eyes hate it. Its a short read so no biggie. Maybe remove the transparency for a sharper look and make the spacing of the 3 fonts slightly closer to each other.
I'm not addicted to the internet or my smartphone. I'm addicted to information
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Re: I'm not addicted to the internet or my smartphone. I'm addicted to information
#52Maybe try to avoid making a statement using a font which literally hurts my eyes, and possibly the eyes of many others. That's messed up.
Also information addiction should be a human "feature" I suppose, shouldn't it?
Knowledge for the sake of knowledge and so forth.
The font is actually cool but it belongs in games like Alien Isolation (and possibly others) it's just not good for blogging methinks.
Re: I'm not addicted to the internet or my smartphone. I'm addicted to information
#53My grandma always had the morning paper delivered. When I stayed with her during the summer I’d start in the top left corner of the first page and read all the way to the bottom right corner of the last and everything in between. What a 10 year old kid got out of the grain report? I’m not sure. But I was amped up on her homemade cinnamon rolls and multiple glasses of orange juice. It was wonderful. These days I’m mor…
I remember reading the newspaper in the break room and at lunch. About 2013 or so. That's all their was. Well, for me, because I was a late smartphone adopter. I kind of lump in "internet" (late 90s) with "internet in everyone's pockets at all times". But there was a fairly large gap there. Especially when you consider the limits of 3 and even 4g.
I’ve been considering subscribing to some high quality signal / low to no ad type written publications. Asterisk, IEEE spectrum, NOEMA. Make getting mail fun again.
Re: I'm not addicted to the internet or my smartphone. I'm addicted to information
#54I noticed this about myself about 25 years ago... before the internet really took off on the dopamine rollercoatser it is now.
Re: I'm not addicted to the internet or my smartphone. I'm addicted to information
#55This is like saying, "I'm not addicted to smoking, I'm addicted to the happiness cigarettes give me." Addiction is a harmful dependency you pursue to achieve some desired outcome. The harmful dependency is the endless browsing, scrolling, and searching you engage in to obtain it, all the time wasted doing it and doing it in a way that consumes a significant amount of time that could be spent acquiring that same infor…
Re: I'm not addicted to the internet or my smartphone. I'm addicted to information
#56I feel you. I had to brave through the font that you're using but I feel you. Maybe try to avoid making a statement using a font which literally hurts my eyes, and possibly the eyes of many others. That's messed up. Also information addiction should be a human "feature" I suppose, shouldn't it? Knowledge for the sake of knowledge and so forth. The font is actually cool but it belongs in games like Alien Isolation (an…
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
(reader mode works perfectly well on this site afaict)
Re: I'm not addicted to the internet or my smartphone. I'm addicted to information
#57I feel you. I had to brave through the font that you're using but I feel you. Maybe try to avoid making a statement using a font which literally hurts my eyes, and possibly the eyes of many others. That's messed up. Also information addiction should be a human "feature" I suppose, shouldn't it? Knowledge for the sake of knowledge and so forth. The font is actually cool but it belongs in games like Alien Isolation (an…
> Please don't complain about tangential annoyances—e.g. article or website formats, name collisions, or back-button breakage. They're too common to be interesting. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html (reader mode works perfectly well on this site afaict)
Re: I'm not addicted to the internet or my smartphone. I'm addicted to information
#58I feel you. I had to brave through the font that you're using but I feel you. Maybe try to avoid making a statement using a font which literally hurts my eyes, and possibly the eyes of many others. That's messed up. Also information addiction should be a human "feature" I suppose, shouldn't it? Knowledge for the sake of knowledge and so forth. The font is actually cool but it belongs in games like Alien Isolation (an…
Re: I'm not addicted to the internet or my smartphone. I'm addicted to information
#59I feel you. I had to brave through the font that you're using but I feel you. Maybe try to avoid making a statement using a font which literally hurts my eyes, and possibly the eyes of many others. That's messed up. Also information addiction should be a human "feature" I suppose, shouldn't it? Knowledge for the sake of knowledge and so forth. The font is actually cool but it belongs in games like Alien Isolation (an…
> Please don't complain about tangential annoyances—e.g. article or website formats, name collisions, or back-button breakage. They're too common to be interesting. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html (reader mode works perfectly well on this site afaict)
Re: I'm not addicted to the internet or my smartphone. I'm addicted to information
#60I feel you. I had to brave through the font that you're using but I feel you. Maybe try to avoid making a statement using a font which literally hurts my eyes, and possibly the eyes of many others. That's messed up. Also information addiction should be a human "feature" I suppose, shouldn't it? Knowledge for the sake of knowledge and so forth. The font is actually cool but it belongs in games like Alien Isolation (an…
> Please don't complain about tangential annoyances—e.g. article or website formats, name collisions, or back-button breakage. They're too common to be interesting. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html (reader mode works perfectly well on this site afaict)