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New comment by jackstraw14 in "How the BIC Cristal ballpoint pen became ubiquitous"

jackstraw14 — Mon, 16 Jun 2025 12:28:37 +0000

Jetstreams come in a lot of forms, including 0.5mm and 0.38mm I believe.

New comment by jackstraw14 in "How I Use LLMs to Write"

jackstraw14 — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 15:12:04 +0000

The link in OP was from April 29th, here is the author's most recent post almost a month later: https://fullydoxxed.com/fuck-chat-gpt-really-is-ruining-writ...

New comment by jackstraw14 in "Cozy video games can quell stress and anxiety"

jackstraw14 — Sat, 19 Apr 2025 07:33:22 +0000

that caught me too, and now I can't stop trying to imagine what it might be.

New comment by jackstraw14 in "Why Our Brains Crave Ideology"

jackstraw14 — Sun, 13 Apr 2025 16:58:22 +0000

I've had a book in my life for a little while now, called "I Am That". It's about exploring the space before the "ideology" takes hold. Really enjoying spending time in that space during these times.

New comment by jackstraw14 in "Claude's Max Plan"

jackstraw14 — Wed, 09 Apr 2025 21:03:25 +0000

Find a way to send them that feedback. I've been doing that more lately and I'm noticing features/bugs I request/report get added pretty quickly. Obviously YMMV but from my experience it seems like they listen to feedback like this.

New comment by jackstraw14 in "Ask HN: Is Hacker News avoiding criticism of Trump?"

jackstraw14 — Mon, 07 Apr 2025 14:29:48 +0000

At what point do we start talking about the effects current politics are having on these things? Or just avoid that too and pretend it's not happening?

New comment by jackstraw14 in "Piranesi's Perspective Trick (2019)"

jackstraw14 — Thu, 27 Mar 2025 13:38:42 +0000

Read the book once, will definitely check out the audiobook. I got in the habit of reading it before bed too, sounds perfect.

New comment by jackstraw14 in "Beef industry knew of environment impact; spent decades blocking climate action"

jackstraw14 — Thu, 20 Mar 2025 20:13:25 +0000

Does it matter who knew, at this point? Industry boomed because of the output and also because the worst consequences would come long after. As a society we usually do it the messy way first and refine it later, right? Maybe they thought it was fine, we'll fix it later.

Maybe there was an odd company here and there that "did the right thing" but we're talking about Industries here. They knew they were shitting into the atmosphere and decided it was worth it.

New comment by jackstraw14 in "Using a graphics tablet as a programming tool (2018)"

jackstraw14 — Wed, 19 Mar 2025 15:02:23 +0000

Didn't mean to sound snarky with my comment, sorry about that! I would seriously recommend archival-quality in that case too, Micron pens are pretty affordable! You could of course go wild and create a wonderful setup that's a bit pricier, but it's very easy to do with simple pens too. Micron and legal pad should get the job done for personal notes, and beyond that probably look at scanning/digital options.

no one asked, but frixion pens on a legal pad and taking photos with a quick iOS shortcut makes it very simple to win all around.

New comment by jackstraw14 in "'Dogequest' Site Claims to Dox Tesla Owners Across the U.S."

jackstraw14 — Tue, 18 Mar 2025 15:18:15 +0000

so wonderful to share this country with folks like you! please consider shifting your scope outside yourself and your own personal protection, and consider the greater good at least occasionally, please.

New comment by jackstraw14 in "'Dogequest' Site Claims to Dox Tesla Owners Across the U.S."

jackstraw14 — Tue, 18 Mar 2025 15:15:04 +0000

It would not surprise me in the slightest if Republicans start buying swasticars as a statement. Wouldn't surprise me one bit.

New comment by jackstraw14 in "[dead]"

jackstraw14 — Sun, 16 Mar 2025 17:08:17 +0000

> Exploit and ruin every last bit of credibility for their own personan financial enrichment.

It really is absolutely astounding. They're going all in and so far it's messy, but maybe working for them? It's going to be a different world on the other side of this, and I'm not sure if their plans will work out exactly as they think, but I don't think I'm as psychotic as they are so who knows what they'll come up with.

The only way they will be punished is if someone stops them, until then they're making just about all the rules here.

New comment by jackstraw14 in "Using a graphics tablet as a programming tool (2018)"

jackstraw14 — Sun, 16 Mar 2025 02:40:19 +0000

Yes, would not recommend the pens as a substitute for ones with archival-quality ink :)

New comment by jackstraw14 in "Using a graphics tablet as a programming tool (2018)"

jackstraw14 — Sat, 15 Mar 2025 13:48:23 +0000

I've just started using a legal pad and erasable pen (frixion pens are amazing) to help get my life processes better organized, and it's a great place to start and figure out what you want from these kinds of tools. For me this was better than trying the tools to see what works, I even tried Excalidraw but it's still in that category of "go back and learn how to use if I have time".

I'm still heavily leaning on the legal pad, but I've got a project in Claude to streamline this whole thing over time. It's recommended Microsoft OneNote which I completely wrote off because it seems like there must be a price for such a robust tool being free, but it is really amazing these days. Seems very smooth for mixing digital media with handwritten notes and diagrams, I'm really impressed with it. It's probably going to be where I move to from my legal pad system, since it's so similar but offers features that will help organize the notes and make them searchable, etc.

I always look at the new tools and services for these kind of things when they pop up so please share other personal systems as well!

(I'm still not sure what the price is for OneNote, but if anyone knows and it's bad, please say something)

New comment by jackstraw14 in "Despite the hype, DOGE hasn't found a shred of fraud"

jackstraw14 — Mon, 10 Mar 2025 01:33:55 +0000

I started reading The Guardian around 2006 or so, BBC News occasionally but it feels more like clickbait titles these days... The Guardian is not totally "international media" since I think they have lots of US staff and contributors, but its removed enough in my opinion, and I appreciate the criticism of the US as an American. Lots of quality content in lots of areas. I think lots of fellow Americans would find it very palatable too.

New comment by jackstraw14 in "Tesla offering insane perks as sales dry up"

jackstraw14 — Sun, 09 Mar 2025 08:19:47 +0000

oh stop it. quit trying to stir up this nonsense. who even cares if he IS a nazi? he's acting like one and encouraging them. i know you are trolling, so no need to ask if you are able to understand this or not.

New comment by jackstraw14 in "ChatGPT Saved My Life (no, seriously, I'm writing this from the ER)"

jackstraw14 — Tue, 25 Feb 2025 15:20:31 +0000

Wow, I'm glad you figured it out and I bet those two weeks were hell. With anything health related, I think information found online and information from AI tools should just be considered helpers toward determining something more specific that you can address. I certainly would not vouch for all AI assistance, and you shouldn't just give more weight to an AI system more than an article from a supposed expert necessarily. But, if you know you are working with good tools (like Claude Sonnet, which I would recommend for this particular case we're talking about) they shouldn't steer you too far in the wrong direction. Claude specifically has been the gentlest, most helpful general assistant I've ever had, but I don't ever lose sight of the fact that these are simply tools helping me, a non-perfect human with a lot still to learn, and I wouldn't recommend using them as any kind of "authoritative" solution, just something that's about the best help I've had with this kind of stuff so far. The final decision should be between you and your doctor.

New comment by jackstraw14 in "ChatGPT Saved My Life (no, seriously, I'm writing this from the ER)"

jackstraw14 — Tue, 25 Feb 2025 14:59:51 +0000

I know what you're talking about, and the last lab results I got contained more data than I've ever seen before on one of those things. There were one or two results outside of the normal range, which my doctor addressed with me directly, and now everything is mostly normal.

Are you saying that the doctor failed to take action on something that was at a concerning level on her labs? Or that she should have scanned her labs for anything that was on the edges of those normal ranges?

I generally agree that more data is a good thing, but simple blood work can be kind of a large amount of data now that's not immediately recognizable to the average person. However, this is exactly the case where I want more assistance with AI... there's simply too much data for me to reliably tell what's meaningful and what's not anymore. AI can process a bunch of data and tell me what I need to know in about a second or two.

New comment by jackstraw14 in "The Weird New Putting Technique That's Driving the Golf World Nuts"

jackstraw14 — Sun, 23 Feb 2025 14:54:08 +0000

Would also add this one from the Golf Channel I enjoyed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s3hIgWGpG6U

As a long former golfer, current software dev it's pretty fun to watch these videos.

New comment by jackstraw14 in "Justice Department deletes database tracking federal police misconduct"

jackstraw14 — Fri, 21 Feb 2025 09:39:34 +0000

> blockchain

part of the reason they've chosen this strategy is because the tools we have are laughably inadequate to protect democracy. please don't give them more fuel.