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by nicbou 1y ago
I also find that the act of writing regularly highlights some patterns, and some unaddressed emotions. You might find yourself writing about the same thing for a few days and notice how it affects your feelings. You may also notice reluctan
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by nicbou 1y ago
We're raised to be productive little machines. There comes a point in most people's careers where they ask themselves "is this it?" We're in a crowd of relatively wealthy people who actually gets to act on those que
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by nicbou 1y ago
This is not a WordPress website
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Near zero. Everything is under source control.
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by nicbou 1y ago
I'm not too worried about such bad actors. The website is pragmatic and apolitical, and it's mostly invisible to the German-speaking crowd. The biggest risks are more technical: automated spam, and possibly the low signal/noi
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Ask HN: Should I add comments to my website?
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by nicbou 1y ago
If you make enough money, it frees you to do other things - impactful things. For example, if you make twice as much as you need, you can work half as much. That leaves a lot of time for projects you care about. The problem, I think, is tha
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by nicbou 1y ago
My Pixel 5 made me switch to iOS after a software update made it unusable. A year later, the iPhone mostly gets out of my way. However the keyboard and browser options are artificially limited. I can't easily set my own search engine o
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by nicbou 1y ago
Besides all the tracking and well... convincing people to buy things.
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by nicbou 1y ago
They're also shooting themselves in the foot by halving the traffic to the websites that provide the training data.
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by nicbou 1y ago
I wish I started with something like that. At the time my website was just a blog, but I've added tools and forms over the years. I had to create an ad hoc design language and set of components for it. Pico would have been far more eff
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by nicbou 1y ago
What was the content about? You describe my blog, and another guy who built the exact same blog to a point it felt uncanny.
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by nicbou 1y ago
I considered all the options back in 2021 and went with the iPad Mini. My reasons: much better software for sketching, not bound to a single ereader app, multiple ways to send stuff around, perfect size. Many years later, I would still choo
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by nicbou 1y ago
Why would the human report back to the AI?
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by nicbou 1y ago
> for some reason, it's not portable across arbitrary boundaries The reason being that you can't be held accountable across borders. I may have good credit in Canada, but my German landlord can't sue me there if I fall beh
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by nicbou 1y ago
I meant cooperatives and other structures at a lower scale. Stalinism was not the only attempts at collectivisation.
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by nicbou 1y ago
This has been attempted multiple times and the results were disastrous.
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by nicbou 1y ago
Where will the experience come from?
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by nicbou 1y ago
I'm designing for the average user, not the average Hacker News commenter. This is why the website is beloved by its users.
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by nicbou 1y ago
In my case, to know that everyone is seeing the same website, optimised for legibility, and with every UI label fitting in its alloted space.
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by nicbou 1y ago
Sometimes countries get involved in military conflicts so that they can test their hardware and learn important lessons for the next big war. They are building the leadership, logistics and institutional knowledge for when it's really
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by nicbou 1y ago
My personal decision? Not very impactful now that I live in Europe, but it means I will not set foot on US soil, that I divest from US-based services, and that I don't buy American. I don't care how effective it is, because there
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by nicbou 1y ago
As a Canadian it started the moment they threatened to invade their long-term ally.
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by nicbou 1y ago
In 2020 I bought a "disposable" Renault Kangoo to schlepp things around and go on road trips. It broke beyond repair last week and I started looking for a replacement. Even a 3 year old Dacia Dokker - basically the same exact car
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by nicbou 1y ago
In the last 20 years. It's not surprising given all the new forms of entertainment we have.
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I wouldn't say so. I grew up without ABS but I trust it over my slow lizard brain. I just don't like being tricked into listening to a machine talking through a human. It's the same feeling as trusting a brand and learning it
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BER has a regular supermarket before security. It's amazing to grab a regular-priced pastry or snack before or after flying.
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by nicbou 1y ago
I think it's fair to use AI as an editor, to get feedback about how your ideas are packaged. It's also fair to use it as a clever dictionary, to find the right expressions, or to use correct grammar and spelling. (This post could
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It could be that some tasks require you to hold a lot of context in your head. Interruptions clear that context and it must be rebuilt. Or you could be tired. It’s crazy how ineffective one gets with a little less sleep.
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by nicbou 1y ago
That's a wicked cool visualisation. I love it! I have underengineered a similar problem with Owntracks, a Python receiver logging the location to a daily GPX file, and a static site generator generating daily map pages out of that data

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