<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: choward</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=choward</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2026 05:30:40 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=choward" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by choward in "I Won't Download Your App. The Web Version Is A-OK"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I'm not going to download an app for every company I do business with. It's as simple as that.<p>I'm not going to download an app to order food from your restaurant.
I'm not going to download an app to operate an appliance.
I'm not going to download an app to get a discount on a beverage at your convenience store.<p>I don't care about your stupid rewards system for trying to get a reasonable price on overpriced items. I'm not downloading an app for it.<p>There are many people who download every app they do business with without hesitation. It's crazy. I can't imagine how many apps these people have on their phones.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2026 15:44:53 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47662407</link><dc:creator>choward</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47662407</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47662407</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by choward in "Why I love NixOS"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>There are so many people complaining about the Nix language while offering zero constructive criticism. I was a little skeptical about them using a custom language at first. But then as I used it more it grew on me and I understand why it is the way it is.<p>People just seem to want to complain because it doesn't look like any of their favorite languages and they aren't familiar with functional languages. At this point, I can't imagine using any other language in place of Nix. The code would have so much noise and be much harder to read.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2026 14:47:48 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47490292</link><dc:creator>choward</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47490292</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47490292</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by choward in "TUI Studio – visual terminal UI design tool"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Same, and it lags simply trying to scroll down the page. Unacceptable.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2026 18:06:55 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47367620</link><dc:creator>choward</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47367620</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47367620</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by choward in "Hisense TVs force owners to watch intrusive ads"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I've never liked the idea of my display having an integrated computer. Especially one I don't control. This non-sense just furthers that.<p>Displays last a long time. Eventually the computer will become outdated especially if companies can just remotely load viruses like this onto them. I just connect my computer to my TV and that's the only input I ever use. Full control. The "smart" part of "smart" TVs is idiotic.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2026 20:27:29 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47341068</link><dc:creator>choward</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47341068</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47341068</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by choward in "Writing my own text editor, and daily-driving it"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Been using KDE for years and never had any of these problems.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2026 14:08:51 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47335773</link><dc:creator>choward</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47335773</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47335773</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by choward in "Ruby 3.5 Feature: Namespace on read"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Ruby doesn't have real modules. You're right, that they are just namespaces. They are global variables with extra typing.<p>If you use a third party library, when you require something, you have no idea what "modules" or other values it creates polluting the global namespace. This at least assigns those values to a local variable where they can be accessed and doesn't make them global.<p>That said, I'm not a fan of ruby and all the workarounds to try to make it like a more sane language that it isn't.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2025 16:51:00 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43965047</link><dc:creator>choward</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43965047</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43965047</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by choward in "4.6M Voter and Election Documents Exposed Online by Technology Contractor"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Mail out ballots then require an ID when you turn it in. Make it easier to get an ID if that's a problem. It seems pretty simple to me. Not sure why anyone would be against this.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 25 Aug 2024 18:28:14 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41349856</link><dc:creator>choward</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41349856</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41349856</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by choward in "Toasts are bad UX"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>"We do have to consider the undo-functionality and that the toast feedback can be useful when using keyboard shortcuts."<p>There's nothing more infuriating than going to click undo and the toast disappears.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 20 Aug 2024 12:17:57 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41299349</link><dc:creator>choward</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41299349</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41299349</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by choward in "Antarctica's winter is now 50F hotter than it used to be"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>That's not how that works. It's 50 degrees hotter not 50 degrees as the temperature. Celsius goes up at a rate of 5/9 what fahrenheit does so it's about 28 degrees Celsius.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 03 Aug 2024 21:59:15 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41149583</link><dc:creator>choward</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41149583</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41149583</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by choward in "Timeshift: System Restore Tool for Linux"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I can't tell you the number of times I see a project and think to myself "NixOS already solves that problem but better."</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 22 Jul 2024 22:06:54 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41040332</link><dc:creator>choward</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41040332</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41040332</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by choward in "Where in the USA is this?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>What's adds to that annoyance is that the only way to navigate the games is a "prev" link. There's no way to jump directly to a game or go to the next game. This means every day it becomes more time consuming to get to the first game. And if you accidentally refresh the page, have fun!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 03 Jul 2023 20:28:22 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36578332</link><dc:creator>choward</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36578332</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36578332</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by choward in "Tell HN: Twitter switched temporarily to rate limited mode"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I can confirm that scrolling through replies does count. So reading the replies to Elon's tweets to figure out what's happening makes you hit the rate limit.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 01 Jul 2023 23:16:22 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36556344</link><dc:creator>choward</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36556344</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36556344</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by choward in "Tell HN: Twitter switched temporarily to rate limited mode"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This has to be the dumbest idea I've ever seen any social media company make and that says a lot.<p>First, I can't find any documentation explaining the rate limits. Just his tweet. Is this a rolling limit? Where do I see how many posts I've allegedly read? Do replies count as posts? Also, you can't go back and re-read the tweets that counted toward your limit.<p>His tweets are getting over 20,000 replies. That means that if posts count, even if you paid for your account you still can't read all the replies for a single tweet. 
This also worsens the experience for existing paid users because the whole point of posting something is so that your followers see it. And if he's trying to get new paid users, why would anyone pay to get a far worse experience than they were just getting for free yesterday?<p>To add to the absurdity, the error you get is "Something went wrong. Try reloading." And once you hit the rate limit you can't even view the Twitter Support account or your own profile. You can however still see Tweets in your notifications.<p>On top of that, this isn't how you handle bots/AI. That's not the purpose of rate limiting. Wrong tool for the job. This is incompetence no matter how you look at it. None of this makes any sense.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 01 Jul 2023 20:08:44 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36554554</link><dc:creator>choward</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36554554</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36554554</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by choward in "Twitter’s $42k-per-month API prices out nearly everyone"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>What recent events? Why would their data be less valuable?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 10 Mar 2023 20:45:49 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35100770</link><dc:creator>choward</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35100770</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35100770</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by choward in "Maybe treating housing as an investment was a mistake"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>They might not be able to find someone to pay that rent. In which case they might be forced to sell. Ideally someone who doesn't own a home will purchase it and won't have to pay the tax that caused the original owner to sell.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 06 Mar 2023 20:41:21 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35047277</link><dc:creator>choward</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35047277</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35047277</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by choward in "NYC jails want to ban physical mail, then privatize scanning of digital versions"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The prison industrial complex has lobbyists who do influence those decisions. They could start focusing on making the penalties harsher for minor crimes.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2023 19:38:18 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34509007</link><dc:creator>choward</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34509007</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34509007</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by choward in "NYC jails want to ban physical mail, then privatize scanning of digital versions"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Pretty sure they still receive prison sentences in Singapore in addition to caning.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2023 19:36:19 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34508977</link><dc:creator>choward</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34508977</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34508977</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by choward in "Zero to Nix, an unofficial, opinionated, gentle introduction to Nix"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Oh, I had no idea. I was actually already doing that. Guess I was just being extra verbose on the command line.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2023 21:08:04 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34495045</link><dc:creator>choward</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34495045</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34495045</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by choward in "Zero to Nix, an unofficial, opinionated, gentle introduction to Nix"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>You don't have to specify the nixosConfiguration name (e.g ~/flake#my-configuration)? Do you just name it "default" or something for that to work? I've never tried that.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2023 19:01:45 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34493343</link><dc:creator>choward</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34493343</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34493343</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by choward in "Zero to Nix, an unofficial, opinionated, gentle introduction to Nix"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>As a nix user I agree. Nix needs to make flakes stable ASAP. It creates a lot of confusion for new users and friction for getting started. "Do I use the thing that's deprecated but stable or the thing that's unstable but is the future of nix?"</p>
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