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Adraghast··on New MacBook Air with M2
Do you mean common noun instead of pronoun?
Adraghast··on Goodbye, Feedly
I don’t think it’s entitled at all to expect things to not suck regardless of whether they’re free or require payment. Truly good products make you want to pay to receive a carrot, bad ones to avoid a stick. The only carrots Feedly has to offer are all moldy and gross, so they’ve resorted to more and more sticks.

The author also did exactly what you want by switching to NetNewsWire, so I don’t know what you’re complaining about other than that they made a blog post explaining that decision.

Adraghast··on Goodbye, Feedly
> It's not surprising that the experience isn't friction-free: it's not meant to be.

This is an argument for the intentional creation of bad software.

Adraghast··on The Pentagon uses a secret program to wage proxy wars
Providing arms, intelligence, and other forms of support is done in the public eye, yes. They’re more likely referring to the possible deployment of SOF personnel to Ukraine.
Adraghast··on As weed gets more potent, teens are getting sick
I would pay very good money to watch you spend a Valentine’s Day working at a restaurant.
Adraghast··on Ask HN: Does anybody still use bookmarking services?
I’ve been using Raindrop.io for this. (Not affiliated.)
Adraghast··on Tell HN: Microsoft limits GitHub accounts of Russian citizens anywhere
Seeing ignorant comments like this, it’s not hard to understand why so much of the world is sick of Western hubris.
Adraghast··on Tesla sends untrained employees to work on cars as service becomes problematic
Yep. I was an early adopter, but now when people ask if I’d recommend buying a Model 3 my answer has changed to that I probably wouldn’t in 2022, mostly due to shoddy build quality and subpar service experiences.
Adraghast··on Skip the exit interview when you leave your job
Can it? I would think you’d want to let people vent so they don’t leave. If they’ve already decided to leave, why not let them vent on their own time?
Adraghast··on Photos of chickens, taken by chickens
I take selfies every time I pass by a CCTV camera apparently.
Adraghast··on Explosion at US natural gas plant raises risk of shortages in Europe
Would you be in favor of charging infrastructure being run as a public utility?
Adraghast··on Taiwan to Deploy ‘Bee Eye’ Radars Near Chinese Mainland
> Not really, if Putin had quickly succeeded I have not doubt that WWIII would have started with a failed attempt to take Taiwan followed by WWIII.

What qualifications allow you to make claims with such confidence?

Adraghast··on El Ajedrecista
> That golden age of science is something we should behold in reverence and vigilance.

Explain why in a way that non-nerds would care about.

Adraghast··on EU reaches deal to make USB-C a common charger for most electronic devices
No worries, there are also millions of iPhones with Lightning ports for them to be used with. (:
Adraghast··on Ask HN: Non-violent video games with great stories?
Not particularly fun as a game, but it’s the best narrative in the medium by a large margin.
Adraghast··on Amazon and the dystopian future of book censorship
You decided to self-publish and got what you wanted. If you wanted a real person to take the time to sort it out with you, you should have found a real publisher willing to take you on.
Adraghast··on SPACs are warning they may go bust
Egregious amounts of cash were being pumped into the economy long before 2020.
Adraghast··on Please don’t let anyone Americanise it (1992)
Mine is extremely good at telling me the time. I just look at my wrist and there it is. Maybe you're using it incorrectly?
Adraghast··on Please don’t let anyone Americanise it (1992)
Digital time is inherently superior. Analog time requires the extra cognitive step of translating to the numbers being represented. Digital time skips that process and shows you the numbers directly.
Adraghast··on Many popular websites see what you type before you hit submit
Make me. (-:
Adraghast··on Many popular websites see what you type before you hit submit
Some of the replies you're getting are comical.

"Obviously we don't mean having a lawyer on retainer. That'd be unreasonable. We're talking about the lawyer with whom you maintain a working relationship should you need one. You know, kind of like your accountant!"

Adraghast··on The White House’s weirdly hip record collection
> Furthermore, this makes you highly suspeptible to manipulation and abuse by less successful would-be authoratarians.

I'm dying to know how. Please tell me how I can attain an incorruptible mind such as yours.

Adraghast··on Goldman Sachs shrinking its SPAC business amid regulatory crackdown
That tip would be the nearly 400 pages of proposed regulations the SEC dropped in March:

https://www.sec.gov/rules/proposed/2022/33-11048.pdf

Adraghast··on Apple is discontinuing the iPod
What exactly are you asking for the Watch to do? I load mine with music to play while my phone is in a gym locker all the time. Do you just want to be able to get files onto it without needing an iPhone? There are "millions upon millions" of people clamoring for that feature?
Adraghast··on Exgrasia: RPG-style sandbox game where every tile is a player-made contract
"See, look! An application for blockchain! I told you it's not just for speculative assets!"
Adraghast··on The White House’s weirdly hip record collection
I don't think they're basically robots. I think they're basically reptiles.

> Are you gonna suggest next that they also don't care about the taste of food?

Seems plausible to me.

Adraghast··on The White House’s weirdly hip record collection
I actually added "most" specifically because of Carter and Clinton!

> Presidents are people

Citation needed. :)

Adraghast··on Ask HN: How many computers you got?
2021 MacBook Pro.

I don't understand y'all.

Adraghast··on The White House’s weirdly hip record collection
My first thought was that it's hard to imagine most US presidents deriving joy from music (anyone who thinks Obama actually listens to the music on those annual lists his interns compile is naive). So it made perfect sense that once these records got to the White House they barely made it out of the crates before being shipped off to some warehouse.
Adraghast··on Coinbase stock lost over 75% value
The purpose of interest rate hikes is to dampen demand. The less demand there is for goods and services, the less need there is for workers to provide them.
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