Hacker News: chadlavi

New comment by chadlavi in "Ozempic drug supresses desire to smoke, drink and more?"

chadlavi — Sat, 20 May 2023 12:03:39 +0000

This feels like the same logic as "I had to pay off my student loans, so other people should have to suffer like that too." Suffering does not make you better later despite what millennia of Christian theology has told people about its supposed purgative effects. It seems pretty rad to me to be able to just not suffer through the bad part of getting over a major life problem, and I for one am happy that people will be able to skip that part and get on to the part where they live well.

New comment by chadlavi in "The core problem with hamburger menus"

chadlavi — Fri, 05 May 2023 18:57:09 +0000

here's a better idea: stop having unilateral rules about menu layout. Different use cases require different layouts and interactions. You could maybe say "don't just default to hamburger menus."

New comment by chadlavi in "Citi Bike Is Amazing. Citibank Should Pay for Every New Yorker's Membership"

chadlavi — Thu, 27 Apr 2023 13:27:07 +0000

Gotta give the cops their billions unfortunately. No room in the budget for frivolous luxuries like "things that make citizens lives better". Heck, they're even going to hobble our libraries to feed the cop beast.

New comment by chadlavi in "How much can Duolingo teach us?"

chadlavi — Sat, 22 Apr 2023 22:22:11 +0000

> occupation: nazi hunter, linguist

Nice

New comment by chadlavi in "In 2019, Volkswagen decided to create a car OS. How’s that going?"

chadlavi — Fri, 07 Apr 2023 21:02:12 +0000

Of course. But driving a car doesn't need a user-facing OS. It shouldn't feel like using a computer to drive a car. Am I misunderstanding the car operating system they were working on? I thought it was to facilitate UI on touchscreen controls not just low-level systems.

New comment by chadlavi in "In 2019, Volkswagen decided to create a car OS. How’s that going?"

chadlavi — Fri, 07 Apr 2023 14:51:09 +0000

Cars already have an operating system. It's a dash with dials you can look at to get info, a wheel you can use to steer, a set of pedals to control motion, a set of switches and buttons to control lights and such, and a center console with physical buttons that control extras like radio and heat/cooling. Not everything needs to be a computer!

New comment by chadlavi in "Italian government seeks to penalize the use of English words"

chadlavi — Mon, 03 Apr 2023 05:01:29 +0000

> Good.

> I'm not saying it's bad or good.

Yeah you are?

New comment by chadlavi in "Italian government seeks to penalize the use of English words"

chadlavi — Mon, 03 Apr 2023 04:58:21 +0000

The ruling party in Italy currently are literally fascists.

New comment by chadlavi in "Stocks rally to cap a winning month, quarter for Wall Street"

chadlavi — Sun, 02 Apr 2023 04:20:32 +0000

Sure glad I lost my job to help some billionaires get richer.

New comment by chadlavi in "Show HN: Multi-display screen sharing with CoScreen"

chadlavi — Sat, 01 Apr 2023 02:42:46 +0000

oh dang, ok... the "Home" link on your blog should really go to that page instead. I clicked home assuming it would take me to the landing page, then didn't even check the url (which was https://www.coscreen.co/blog/tag/deep-collaboration/ for some reason? why is that Home?)

New comment by chadlavi in "Show HN: Multi-display screen sharing with CoScreen"

chadlavi — Sat, 01 Apr 2023 00:46:14 +0000

Seems neat but this website is really terrible at explaining what the product is or why I'd want to use it. The homepage looks like a spammy blog landing page? give me a big hero image (ideally an autoplay no-audio video acting like a gif) and like, 10 words and some links to more details. Also no info on pricing?

New comment by chadlavi in "Windows 12 Plans Reveal a Bold Redesign, Tighter Security, AI-Powered Features"

chadlavi — Thu, 30 Mar 2023 05:50:09 +0000

Looking more and more like a linux desktop distro that (poorly) ripped off most of its ideas from OS X.

New comment by chadlavi in "Laying Out a Print Book with CSS"

chadlavi — Tue, 21 Mar 2023 14:53:04 +0000

This person hasn't heard of pandoc I guess

New comment by chadlavi in "One of the best podcasting apps you know is built by a single person"

chadlavi — Tue, 21 Mar 2023 02:55:36 +0000

One of the best? It's the only good one.

New comment by chadlavi in "Altstore: Home for apps that push the boundaries of iOS"

chadlavi — Mon, 20 Mar 2023 14:19:03 +0000

This kind of nonsense is a great ad for Apple's hardware.

The extremely very obvious solution for people who want to install whatever they want is to get an android device, and yet people bend over backwards to try to get stuff onto Apple hardware. It's like buying a shirt that famously only comes in blue and trying to figure out how to make it be red.

New comment by chadlavi in "For every 10% increase in the housing stock, rents decrease 1%"

chadlavi — Wed, 15 Mar 2023 00:39:35 +0000

Good, let's do it

New comment by chadlavi in "Common Beginner Mistakes with React"

chadlavi — Sat, 11 Mar 2023 22:49:13 +0000

This is also a much easier to read way of doing it.

For others' context, it's something like this:

  setFoo((f) => f + 1);

New comment by chadlavi in "Emergency bridge loan for SVB customers"

chadlavi — Sat, 11 Mar 2023 00:32:22 +0000

Lot of libertarians suddenly interested in the services a central government can offer them today.

New comment by chadlavi in "Discord, or the Death of Lore"

chadlavi — Tue, 07 Mar 2023 15:30:28 +0000

The free version is unfortunately hobbled but slack is a lot better than discord at least at critical things like "getting caught up on messages that were sent since you last read." Some friends and I recently started a discord server for an async D&D game and it's a real pain to get caught up. They have the same red "you were here" line and the same "X new messages" banner as slack, but discord's default scrolling behavior works against you.

New comment by chadlavi in "Maybe treating housing as an investment was a mistake"

chadlavi — Mon, 06 Mar 2023 18:01:20 +0000

ah yes, my errant comment on the internet is the cause of my woes, thanks mate, cheers