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jackstraw14 commented on How the BIC Cristal ballpoint pen became ubiquitous   openculture.com/2025/06/h... · Posted by u/janandonly
thaumasiotes · 6 months ago
> It’s a ballpoint, with all of the advantages, that writes smoother than any gel.

Gel pens are ballpoints. What do you mean by "ballpoint" here?

> Try a Uni-Ball Jetsream

I would never choose to use one of those, since they aren't available in 0.5mm. 0.7mm is too thick.

jackstraw14 · 6 months ago
Jetstreams come in a lot of forms, including 0.5mm and 0.38mm I believe.
jackstraw14 commented on How I Use LLMs to Write   fullydoxxed.com/how-i-use... · Posted by u/victormustar
nilirl · 6 months ago
Conflicted. Useful post, nice bits of insight.

But I feel emotionally conflicted because of how different it is from how I write.

And I have a suspicion that I need to get over it.

This is faster, produces something of value, and has a small chance of catching errors/bias in thinking. It's the same flow I use while writing code.

Writing from scratch now feels like those cooking videos where people make all the ingredients from scratch: rewarding but also maybe a tiny bit self-indulgent.

This feels like the 21st century: You bring the skills, the model brings the words.

jackstraw14 · 6 months ago
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...
jackstraw14 commented on Cozy video games can quell stress and anxiety   reuters.com/business/reta... · Posted by u/vinhnx
jrowen · 8 months ago
I'm intrigued by the notion of a chasm of possibilities. Can you explain further?
jackstraw14 · 8 months ago
that caught me too, and now I can't stop trying to imagine what it might be.
jackstraw14 commented on Why Our Brains Crave Ideology   nautil.us/why-our-brains-... · Posted by u/Brajeshwar
jackstraw14 · 8 months ago
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.
jackstraw14 commented on Claude's Max Plan   anthropic.com/news/max-pl... · Posted by u/nanfinitum
spudlyo · 8 months ago
If they had something better than OpenAI's Advanced Voice Mode and it came with unlimited access I'd consider it. If Advanced Voice Mode was just 15% better than it is now, I'd find $200 a month to give to OpenAI for unlimited access.
jackstraw14 · 8 months ago
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.
jackstraw14 commented on Ask HN: Is Hacker News avoiding criticism of Trump?    · Posted by u/hoerzu
techpineapple · 8 months ago
This! Let’s get back to talking about non-political topics, like science, economics, and technology.
jackstraw14 · 8 months ago
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?
jackstraw14 commented on Piranesi's Perspective Trick (2019)   medium.com/@brunopostle/p... · Posted by u/amatheus
bemmu · 9 months ago
I'll take this opportunity to drop the fact that I'm kind of obsessed with the book "Piranesi", where the main character (named after the artist in the article) survives in a world which is just endless corridors of classical architecture, statues, and staircases.

It's an incredibly calming experience, I've listened to the audiobook over 10 times before sleep. Highly recommended.

jackstraw14 · 9 months ago
Read the book once, will definitely check out the audiobook. I got in the habit of reading it before bed too, sounds perfect.
jackstraw42 commented on Zen browser had a backdoor enabled by default   github.com/zen-browser/de... · Posted by u/nobunaga
jackstraw42 · 9 months ago
I've probably had Zen Browser uninstalled from my system for about a year, and I just checked my AppData folder, found a 'zen' folder which eventually became 'zen-browser', and 2300+ files still sitting in my AppData/Roaming folder. maybe it's leftover stuff from extensions I installed but.... I probably just forgot to check the "delete all user profiles and settings" box, but who knows.

Going to do a pretty thorough tidying-up of my PC after this. thanks for posting, OP.

jackstraw14 commented on     · Posted by u/rntn
jackstraw14 · 9 months ago
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.

jackstraw14 commented on Using a graphics tablet as a programming tool (2018)   jeandavidmoisan.com/posts... · Posted by u/akkartik
snozolli · 9 months ago
It's not about archival quality, it's about being able to reference your notes a year from now.
jackstraw14 · 9 months ago
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.

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