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Field notes from a phone-free future

inatreecrown2 — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 04:28:27 +0000

Article URL: https://etymology.substack.com/p/field-notes-from-a-phone-free-future

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49736422

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New comment by inatreecrown2 in "Lolcow Theory of the Internet"

inatreecrown2 — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 04:11:57 +0000

The dynamics between the person in front of the camera and the spectator sure are interesting with all this "social media" we are surrounded by. What a strange world we live in.

New comment by inatreecrown2 in "An atlas of periodic solutions to the three-body problem"

inatreecrown2 — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 11:42:09 +0000

Very cool visuals and site! Could I make a suggestion: You show the masses (1,1,1), but not the starting positions, which alter the course of events too.

New comment by inatreecrown2 in "Homebrew 7.0.0"

inatreecrown2 — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 22:44:42 +0000

That's a very good idea. Thanks for the link. Ideally this should be a feature in homebrew.

New comment by inatreecrown2 in "Homebrew 7.0.0"

inatreecrown2 — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 11:55:03 +0000

I have this bound to an alias: bu

Run it every couple of days, easy peasy.

New comment by inatreecrown2 in "iPhone Duo"

inatreecrown2 — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 03:41:03 +0000

Apple bought P.A. Semi in 2008, 18 years ago.

New comment by inatreecrown2 in "iPhone Duo"

inatreecrown2 — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 00:59:38 +0000

It feels like Apple is a company on autopilot, a well oiled money making machine, nothing else.

New comment by inatreecrown2 in "Show HN: Jigsaw Haiku"

inatreecrown2 — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 04:30:53 +0000

I found it quite difficult to find fitting pieces, maybe add an option to also show the painted background?

New comment by inatreecrown2 in "Emacs Bedrock 2.0"

inatreecrown2 — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 04:02:59 +0000

Very nice presentation and project.

From the README of the linked repo:

"When I started learning Emacs, my dad gave me his .emacs file. (That's what we used back in ye olden days instead of .emacs.d/init.el and stuff.) I used it without modification for many years. Eventually I learned how to write my own functions and customizations. This package aims to give other users a similar experience. When someone comes to me and expresses their desire to learn Emacs, I can point them at this to help them get over the initial hump, but not coddle them so much that they're afraid or unable to change things to their liking."

New comment by inatreecrown2 in "Fine, I'll build my own text editor"

inatreecrown2 — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 06:00:47 +0000

do you want to share your text editor?

New comment by inatreecrown2 in "Develop Cross-Platform CLI and GUI Tools with Tcl/Tk"

inatreecrown2 — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 03:22:32 +0000

Some of these UIs look simpler and better / more user friendly to me than the latest offerings from Apple and Microsoft. Especially this: https://cgicoffee.com/blog/content/images/2026/tcl-tk-articl... Looks like OpenBox?