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New comment by 0_gravitas in "Sheets Spreadsheets in Your Terminal"

0_gravitas — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 17:07:05 +0000

Oh man, I played with teapot once a long while ago, but couldn't figure out how to parse values from XDR files in $LANG, or export some given sheet into CSV or other format- which sadly put a stop to my experimentation. Super interesting otherwise, and wish it had more eyes.

New comment by 0_gravitas in "I am definitely missing the pre-AI writing era"

0_gravitas — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 15:34:45 +0000

Does learning/using new words make you a worse writer?

The handful of times I've used a thesaurus is usually 'for aesthetics', in that the word/phrase I have in mind clashes with the flow of the text. I know what I want to say, and I know how I can say it, but I _also_ know that I can jostle the wording around so that the rhythm doesn't deteriorate.

New comment by 0_gravitas in "The Post-American Internet"

0_gravitas — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 15:04:53 +0000

It's not a democracy (by definition)

New comment by 0_gravitas in "All Delisted Steam Games"

0_gravitas — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 23:17:15 +0000

Why even leave this comment?

New comment by 0_gravitas in "Inverse Parentheses"

0_gravitas — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 21:38:59 +0000

Disclaimer: I used the /royal/ LISP--as in the 'lisp family'- my introduction, and language of choice, has been Clojure (who's qualification as a Lisp is technically contended by certain fundamentalists), but it is still quite paren-based either-way.

And I do, I bounced off it the first time long ago, and really took to it the second go around, its been my daily driver at home and work for some years now- it brings me great joy.

New comment by 0_gravitas in "Inverse Parentheses"

0_gravitas — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 15:01:18 +0000

Working with lisp quickly made me realize how over-rated operator precedence (or even the concept of "operators") is. All such effort and early grade-school hours spent on this arbitrary short-hand instead of treating the operations themselves as functions and embracing the divine order of (more) parens.

New comment by 0_gravitas in "Valve is running Apple's playbook in reverse"

0_gravitas — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 22:49:54 +0000

"Sense business wise" seems to vary quite a bit nowadays, at least every other day there's a headline of a company on here doing something almost exclusively for short-term value at the detriment to long-term health.

New comment by 0_gravitas in "A Safer Container Ecosystem with Docker: Free Docker Hardened Images"

0_gravitas — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 21:27:05 +0000

The proximity of this and Bitnami pulling their 'free hardened images' is amusing, and I'm just as concerned about another (eventual, but imminent) rug-pull down the line. Docker Inc historically seems comfortable with the typical VC/"growth"-fueled strat of:

1. 'generous' initial offering to establish a userbase/ecosystem/network-effect

2. "oh teehee we're actually gonna have to start charging for that sorry we know that you've potentially built a lot of your infrastructure around this thing"

3. $$$

New comment by 0_gravitas in "Children with cancer scammed out of millions fundraised for their treatment"

0_gravitas — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 22:54:38 +0000

Depends on bot-detection and if its a CPC or CPA campaign

New comment by 0_gravitas in "Canada's Carney called out for 'utilizing' British spelling"

0_gravitas — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 22:21:01 +0000

I was gonna say, I miss when this is what headlines looked like in my country.

New comment by 0_gravitas in "Orion 1.0"

0_gravitas — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 23:12:31 +0000

??? why does any company do it? Money?

New comment by 0_gravitas in "Orion 1.0"

0_gravitas — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 22:44:12 +0000

> I'm assuming the people who are asking for Orion to be open source are not paying for it.

I think this is an odd/slightly-disingenuous statement.

I mean, I'm on linux, so I'm not, I'm happily paying for kagi though, and would pay for Orion+ if it was available to me :)

I would also very much like it if Orion was open source, it would make me feel a lot better committing to and recommending a browser if I had actual assurances it's behaving appropriately, beyond a company saying "trust me", no matter how nice/cool they seem at the time.

Honestly, I kinda wish Orion+ was the only option, I think having a free option (and the incentives that can create) is kind of antithetical to Kagi's whole raison detre.

New comment by 0_gravitas in "Orion 1.0"

0_gravitas — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 22:14:24 +0000

Well, paying money for consumer apps/services (besides games) has always seemed a bit more normalized in the iOS ecosystem, and I imagine it must be a _somewhat_ simpler interface than the lovecruftian monolith of windows-N

saying this as a Linux user, I've never owned an apple device in my life (nor do I want to)

New comment by 0_gravitas in "Unison 1.0"

0_gravitas — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 21:29:44 +0000

Oh man, I first looked at this project what feels like _forever_ ago and remember thinking--almost verbatim, "Wow I wish I could see this 5 years from now", and lo and behold I suppose it has been about that long!

Very happy to see it finally hit 1.0

New comment by 0_gravitas in "Meeting notes between Forgejo and the Dutch government via Git commits"

0_gravitas — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 21:28:15 +0000

There's a batch of dialog that indicates an interest in 'digital sovereignty', so it sounds like they are less interested in being an explicit customer of a given company.

New comment by 0_gravitas in "Tehran taps run dry as water crisis deepens across Iran"

0_gravitas — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 21:21:39 +0000

This kind of comment is better suited to reddit, or twitter, rather than HN.

Please refer to the HN guidelines to help keep this place as wonderful as it can be: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

New comment by 0_gravitas in "The disguised return of EU Chat Control"

0_gravitas — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 21:05:03 +0000

I assumed the post was sarcastic, but Poe's Law I suppose, sadly..

New comment by 0_gravitas in "Show HN: Yourshoesmells.com – Find the most smelly boulder gym"

0_gravitas — Tue, 04 Nov 2025 15:05:57 +0000

Looking around my area, unsure what the heuristics are for determining whats a climbing/boulder gym, but there's quite a few false-positives. I got excited because I thought there was some new options in my otherwise duopolized island.

New comment by 0_gravitas in "Clojure Zippers (2021)"

0_gravitas — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 16:00:58 +0000

I've been using Clojure for a few years now and zippers have always been a blindspot (had no idea even _when_ they would be useful), this is a remarkable tutorial!

New comment by 0_gravitas in "Android's sideloading limits are its most anti-consumer move"

0_gravitas — Mon, 13 Oct 2025 21:33:39 +0000

But those 99.999% of users won't be using F-droid or direct-installs to begin with.