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I read on Kindle because of my bad vision - I can increase the font size there.
Re:Anti-Patterns in Software Blogging on Wednesday October 07, 2026 @08:48PM (#50000694)
I do! Usually I discover new blogs via Substack and read them via email client
Re:If AI writes your code, why use Python? on Tuesday May 12, 2026 @02:37PM (#48112422)
you probably mean that python is not static typed.
Re:Tim Cook Is Leaving. Good on Monday April 27, 2026 @10:26AM (#47922100)
Microsoft is hardware company too. Surface, Xbox, computer peripherals, etc.
Or any other solution with electrolytes (Gatorade, DripDrop) etc
> Add to that the fact that you don't really own the e-books you "buy" through Amazon, just like pretty much every other digital "purchase" these days, and that's enough for me to never buy one.

True. That's why I prefer to buy books on other platforms, sometimes directly on authors website. And nothing stops me from reading them on Kindle. Maybe that's the reason why I don't understand the problem here.

  > We are still dealing with a home screen that prioritizes advertisements and promoted recommendations over your actual library. Navigating a large collection of books remains a chore, with sluggish animations and a lack of robust folder management that has been a standard feature on rival devices for years.
Such claims make me think that this article is biased.

There are two tabs on main Kindle screen - Home and Library (and also pretty good search). In Library you can see all your books AND collections as folders.

BOOX devices have their own issues https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33353640

I think Kobo has same issues with DRM as Amazon does.

Also, Kindle devices are cheaper, last time I checked, low end models of competitors, didn't have flush-front screens, like Paperwhite.

I never had problems described in this article (but YMMV of course).

One of my favorite movies. There is a context to it though: dystopian post apocalyptical society where all planet natives are telepathic and can read each other's thoughts.
Re:Funding Open Source like public infrastructure on Friday August 15, 2025 @01:52AM (#44909031)
Isn't that what taxes are for?
Re:Hotel booking sites overcharge Bay Area customers on Tuesday January 14, 2025 @05:01PM (#42704514)
Booking.com or frankly any other aggregator are great until the moment you have a problem and need to talk to their customer service. In that moment you realize that Booking.com does nothing that you can't do by yourself with same effort.
Re:Web apps built with Ruby on Rails on Friday January 10, 2025 @12:12PM (#42657550)
I don't have a lot of experience with Golang and AI, I think Rails can give you different kind of productivity.

From what I know (please correct me if I am wrong) most people use AI to create scaffolding and automate all boring and repetitive tasks in a project. So code still needs to be written, you just outsource it to AI helper.

In Rails you write less code and concentrate on business logic because everything boring like DAL, authorization, caching is already written and tested in production.

edit: syntax

Re:Can we communally deprecate git checkout? on Friday January 10, 2025 @10:17AM (#42656326)
You can set default branch name for your repositories in settings. Much more straightforward than in GitLab in my opinion.
Re:Notion's Midlife Crisis on Saturday September 28, 2024 @10:15PM (#41684349)
Apple Notes is pretty close to perfect for me - it's just missing Markdown support and backlinks. I did just figure out how to link notes together with the '>>' shortcut, which is a game-changer. I've tried a bunch of other apps, but I always come back to Notes.
https://github.com/tellerops/teller works good for me.

At work we use Ansible to fetch secrets from Hashicorp Vault.

Re:Monolith First (2015) on Monday September 16, 2024 @02:45PM (#41559192)
In my experience same goes with microservices. Same spaghetti, different abstraction layer,