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Jemm··on Young people are flocking to astrology
I know the person who wrote the astrology forecasts for a major publication. She would boast about how she made it all up.
Jemm··on Ask HN: Looking for a Firefox compatible extension for voice controlled actions
Same.
Jemm··on How many of you have memorialized an IP address?
I still own a class C from the 90s when we ran an ISP on Windows NT and can recite the base address still.
Jemm··on Launch HN: Twenty.com (YC S23) – Open-source CRM
Customer relationship management (CRM)
Jemm··on Laws of UX
Noticing that most websites are designed for mobile now and barely work on desktop especially if zoomed in or using accessibility features.

Sticky headers take up half the page.

Margins are too wide for the browser

Images are way too big compared to text size

Images don't fit on the page no matter what zoom level you use.

Jemm··on Charger outages leave northern Ontario EV drivers stranded
Ontario, where most of the millions of immigrants wind up. Zero money spent building infrastructure, most of the province is uninhabitable or even reachable by anything other than sea planes or ski planes.
Jemm··on Jony Ive designs $60k turntable for Scottish hi-fi pioneers
As long as he stays away from any product I might ever have to use.
Jemm··on Time appeared to move 5 times more slowly in first billion years after Big Bang
Still holding on to the Big Bang like it was fact. Fun
Jemm··on Ask HN: Why did Elon Musk buy Twitter, really?
I think he started buying it for Trump but then when Trump said he wouldn't join, Musk tried very hard to get out of the deal.
Jemm··on Canadian judge says thumbs-up emoji amounts to contract acceptance
What a crazy country.
Jemm··on North America is TOO Expensive and it’s unsustainable [video]
Canadian here. If I have $800,000 saved, and earn $150,000 a year I still could not buy a house in Toronto even with a maxed out mortgage. Pretty messed up situation.
Jemm··on The world needs more battery metals. Time to mine the seabed
Or we could control the population and stop rapping our ecosystem.
Jemm··on Ask HN: Twitter is up for auction, what do you bid?
144 characters.
Jemm··on For the sixth year, Algeria blocks internet to prevent cheating during exams
How does this stop cheating? I can still think of a dozen ways to get a network wirelessly.
Jemm··on Ontario looks to build first full-scale nuclear power plant in decades
Population growth in Ontario has greatly exceeded infrastructure. But that is likely not the reason for this plant. The Premier of Ontario, Doug Ford, wants to attract business, so plenty of reliable cheap electricity and fresh water are the selling point that is supposed to outweigh the high cost of living and lack of skilled workers.
Jemm··on News is bad for you – and giving up reading it will make you happier (2013)
Maybe people shouldn't be happily ignorant. Maybe people should become upset and perhaps then they will work towards change.
Jemm··on SQLite-based databases on the Postgres protocol? Yes we can
Linked article has out of date code.
Jemm··on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (July 2023)
Location: Canada

  Remote: Yes (Only)
  Willing to relocate: No
  Technologies: JS/Typescript, C, C#, Pascal, Fortran, Perl, PHP, React, Next.js, HTML.  Fullstack, UI, Image/video editing
  Résumé/CV: https://profile.indeed.com/p/abbyj-wvhtgh9
  Email:abbyjonsin@gmail.com
40 years of experience and loving every minute of it.

Looking for shorter contracts on interesting projects.

Jemm··on Canada’s new tech talent strategy
Canada is crumbing and desperately trying to solve the problem with immigration.

Do yourself a favour and don't fall for it.

Jemm··on Ask HN: When Americans say Canadians are polite, is that meant as a compliment?
Canadian politeness is often just a cover for fear of conflict and fear of getting involved.
Jemm··on Body Problem (TV Series)
No mention that the show was done in China already and that they did an amazing job.
Jemm··on VisionOS developer docs and Vision Pro SDK
Apple had the opportunity to make Vision OS more accessible. Instead they chose default gestures that require two hands.
Jemm··on Ask HN: Ive broken my wrist. What tools can be explored to continue programming?
Voice recognition has come a long way, as well as eye tracking. Give it a try, you might be surprised how well it works.
Jemm··on Ask HN: How would you overcome the chicken/egg problem when making a dating app?
Like all apps, marketing, seeding, fake profiles, fake reviews and SEO.
Jemm··on The hustle never ends and I'm so over it
Take the resources wasted on managing agile and put those resources in to actual work. Shocking how the job now gets done and workers are motivated.
Jemm··on WSL 1.3.10 Brings Experimental Memory Reclaim, Updated DXCore and Linux Kernel
I am confused. wsl --version gives "WSL version: 1.3.11.0"
Jemm··on Reddit CEO Triples Down, Insults, Whines
The Internet was a place where people shared knowledge. Now it is a giant ad for shopping.

People were given the sum of human knowledge and instead of becoming more self sufficient they have become more reliant. Take for instance repair cafes, whose goal isn't to repair stuff for people but to teach people that things can be repaired which if you think about it for a bit is mind boggling.

Instead of taking advantage of knowledge and experience humanity has doubled down on denial, hatred, superstition and outright craziness. Witness the response to COVID and current political polarization happening everywhere.

Instead of sharing information, now a search of the Internet find SEO gibberish, scams, fake reviews and all manner of horrors that we never expected possible in the 80s and 90s from the Internet.

Jemm··on Fark redesign is now live (2007)
Oh man, this makes me miss Odd Todd.
Jemm··on Apple Vision Pro: The MVP for AR
Can we at least let Apple ship the damn thing before going full on fan boy.
Jemm··on Hate baggage fees? Wear a fishing vest on the plane
This mentality is not helping. Corporations will continue to act badly if there are no consequences.
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