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New comment by toldyouso2022 in "Ask HN: How to regain the ability to read with focus and learn"

toldyouso2022 — Mon, 23 Jun 2025 07:15:00 +0000

Read something that actually interests you and you like. Choose to start with something short so you get over your anxiety, because I suspect there is an anxiety component.

New comment by toldyouso2022 in "Ask HN: Is anyone still programming the old-fashioned way (without LLMs)?"

toldyouso2022 — Mon, 09 Jun 2025 11:57:32 +0000

I've been without work for over a year now so I'm still programming the classic way and using ai chats in the browser. When I'll work again I'll use them. I think the best thing to do is separate programming for work and pleasure.

New comment by toldyouso2022 in "Ask HN: What are some good resources for coding best practices?"

toldyouso2022 — Sat, 07 Jun 2025 14:58:23 +0000

Check out https://refactoring.guru/

New comment by toldyouso2022 in "Ask HN: Almost a thousand dollars for a 20 minute new patient visit?"

toldyouso2022 — Sat, 24 May 2025 11:49:15 +0000

I can't believe so many people on HN think that healthcare in the US is under the free market. Lol. For starter, can you cure a person if you're not part of the AMA cartel? You can't, the State will ruin you. Can you open an hospital without being allowed by other hospitals, your competition? In many States you can't. If you find and innovative way to organize labor, can you test it? Nope. Just the first few things that come to mind.

Healthcare in the US is much less free market than in European countries like Italy, and these are the results.

But it's amazing that people on HN din't see it, what happened to this place?

New comment by toldyouso2022 in "Ask HN: Sold my company, parents passed away – feeling lost. What now?"

toldyouso2022 — Sun, 27 Apr 2025 04:17:55 +0000

You are mourning your parents, your company and maybe you are mourning having to work towards something, maybe even mourning the financial worry itself.

Thing with mourning is that now things seem to be over but they will start again eventually. It's all about time. Also I'm sorry you feel alone, I hope you'll find a way to manage that.

Good luck

New comment by toldyouso2022 in "Ask HN: What Did You Learn Too Late in Your Tech Career?"

toldyouso2022 — Mon, 21 Apr 2025 03:25:16 +0000

Great article, I never find articles interesting anymore (it's on me for sure) so it was nice to enjoy reading after so long. Thanks for posting it

New comment by toldyouso2022 in "Why does every site's search now insist on giving me what I don't search for?"

toldyouso2022 — Fri, 04 Apr 2025 01:25:26 +0000

Doing guesswork of course, they would rather you get what they want but also they probably don't know how to fix it and make it deterministic again

New comment by toldyouso2022 in "Ask HN: Why are there so few Flutter jobs? Should I switch to React?"

toldyouso2022 — Wed, 05 Mar 2025 17:17:45 +0000

picking up another framework can be painful, but react is very popular so it has many good resources. Also make sure you learn the underlying language first, you may think you understand it enough but you probably don't and it will slow you down.

New comment by toldyouso2022 in "Tell HN: Brother printers no longer consumer friendly"

toldyouso2022 — Wed, 05 Mar 2025 01:53:59 +0000

I have a brother printer + scanner from 2016, because it's out of ink the scanner doesn't work.

Very bad thing to do to clients

New comment by toldyouso2022 in "Freelancing: How I found clients, part 1"

toldyouso2022 — Tue, 25 Feb 2025 15:25:12 +0000

The problem is that the outcome, what clients want, it's often mot clear, changes, sometimes depends on other people in the client's org, etc and it's a mess to have a fixed price contract in these cases

New comment by toldyouso2022 in "Any social platforms not focused on algorithms?"

toldyouso2022 — Sat, 22 Feb 2025 08:16:44 +0000

4chan and imageboards in general

New comment by toldyouso2022 in "Ask HN: Solo developer building a product? Show us your work and get feedback"

toldyouso2022 — Wed, 12 Feb 2025 17:38:24 +0000

I'm now receiving them, adding this message to not hinder your site in case someone reads this still post.

Great service btw

New comment by toldyouso2022 in "Ask HN: Solo developer building a product? Show us your work and get feedback"

toldyouso2022 — Mon, 10 Feb 2025 14:27:33 +0000

Are you still sending the emails?

I have no antispam but I haven't received any

New comment by toldyouso2022 in "Ask HN: Solo developer building a product? Show us your work and get feedback"

toldyouso2022 — Sun, 09 Feb 2025 01:35:39 +0000

I wanted to build something like this, you managed to make the ux 10 times more awesome than I could have imagined, well done

New comment by toldyouso2022 in "Meta scrapped factcheckers because systems were 'too complex'"

toldyouso2022 — Wed, 08 Jan 2025 12:16:56 +0000

I see a lot of memes on Facebook that would have been a sure ban last year now being promoted by the fb algorithm.

Rulers are changing, companies will change. And maybe people like Zuckerberg are really changing their opinions too. Who knows

New comment by toldyouso2022 in "Google, the search engine that's forgotten how to search"

toldyouso2022 — Wed, 18 Dec 2024 02:44:05 +0000

Blogs don't get indexed, also users are pavlovianly trained into associating visiting a website with cookie consent molestation

New comment by toldyouso2022 in "Ask HN: Who needs help this holidays?"

toldyouso2022 — Thu, 12 Dec 2024 13:40:55 +0000

Thank you for the help, I really appreciate it. I wish for you to find the mentorship you're looking for

New comment by toldyouso2022 in "Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2024 – Show and tell"

toldyouso2022 — Tue, 10 Dec 2024 07:44:52 +0000

How does one even find tech writing jobs?

New comment by toldyouso2022 in "Ask HN: Who needs help this holidays?"

toldyouso2022 — Sat, 07 Dec 2024 18:05:31 +0000

That's very generous, thank you so much

New comment by toldyouso2022 in "Ask HN: Who needs help this holidays?"

toldyouso2022 — Fri, 06 Dec 2024 12:43:06 +0000

I feel I'm gonna puke writing this message. Me and my mother both have no income except some government welfare which is subject to many variables (previous month 220 euro, this month 500 euro). My mother has been put on a list to get eye surgery so she can hopefully regain sight in her left eye after many years. The surgery is paid by the State but she will have to go to another city which is far away. We don' know when she will be called so we can't pre-plan the travel to get better deals. 300euro may help us cover the bus and one night at the hotel.

Any help would go a long way https://paypal.me/oghionna