sorrychuck | 3 years ago | on: 9-Dimensional Haystack
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sorrychuck | 3 years ago | on: Dear startups: I hate subscription services (2021)
> Then you’re not the target market.
This is correct. Most of the complaints here amount to “it’s too expensive” which like, yeah, it’s too expensive for you. So don’t buy it.
(Somehow HN — on average, obviously not everyone, but the zeitgeist say — manages to at once complain about companies constantly losing money, and also about companies that charge money!)
sorrychuck | 3 years ago | on: Dear startups: I hate subscription services (2021)
Is this a thing you’ve seen? Really cool idea!
I doubt many would actually use it because complainers on HN aren’t average users, and the number of months you’d have to prepay would likely be quite high to actually make it make sense for the businesses involved.
But still, if you could make a business reselling monthly subs as 1-off purchases, it would be pretty dang cool!
sorrychuck | 3 years ago | on: Do you regret deleting FB or IG or any social media?
I deleted FB nearly 10 years ago after a divorce left me unhappy and uninterested in sharing what I had gone through. Zero regrets, haven’t thought about it for years until reading this post.
It was annoying that some dating sites required it I recall though so do consider that.
sorrychuck | 3 years ago | on: David Foster Wallace’s final attempt to make art moral
Hanging hard onto the myth lol.
The good he did is enough. One doesn’t have to be perfect for one's works to be good.
sorrychuck | 3 years ago | on: Anemometer: Types, advantages, disadvantages
Various aspects of this post struck me as automatically generated. E.g.:
> Cheap price. The appearance is exquisite.
Maybe I’m too cynical but I imagine this is a mechanical rehash of some actual human’s actual hard work.
sorrychuck | 3 years ago | on: Instagram is shifting to videos – users aren't happy
Right? Imagine telling someone “you’re having fun wrong”, ridiculous.
sorrychuck | 3 years ago | on: Considering Sourcehut
Agreed, the styling has put me off by feeling broken / unfinished. In particular too little and too inconsistent padding.
However reviewing now I’ll say that for whatever reason it seems things are much improved. Still not my personal favorite but significantly more clear.
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Seems like this really explodes the space. Recall:
> Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space.