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I have a down sleeping bag for backpacking that's about 40 years old. It's still in decent shape (the nylon is getting a little bit...crinkly might be the right word), and I used it recently.
Those both look really interesting! Dang...something I should probably look at.
Do you use them? What do you think?
"Content" is a slippery slope. It feels like content providers REALLY know how to press your buttons, to get you to continue to "consume".
It takes a big effort to limit it.
But it takes much much LESS effort to eliminate it.
And also like another commenter said...you really get a LOT of the "content" you get out in the wide world, just by being on Stacker News.
I think I may make an exception for long car rides.
But who knows...before you know it I'd probably be making an exception for weeding, working out, all kinds of things.
Might be safest - for me anyway - just to leave it.
Yeah, and it's amazing how your mind really craves that time, to daydream, fantasize, plan, etc. Now I wonder how I could possibly have had time to listen to podcasts so much.
The songs I sang included calls for rape, murder, etc. No one singing them was actually thinking of raping or murdering anyone. In our minds, it was just some folklore. I'm not sure I'd still sing them now.
Seriously? I honestly can't think of anything similar in the US. What kinds of songs were these?
Wish we had an event like that in my town! It reminds me of my dumpster diving days. Those were some thrills...
That yuppie elite article was spot on.
You know one thing that became more and more apparent when I was hanging out on the site was that ... the lack of meaning, the lack of a feeling of purpose, after FIRE, was really apparent once you dug into the forum a bit more.
Many, many (most?) people that actually retired - even from jobs they hated - seemed to be unhappy, adrift after they stopped working. And didn't seem to find their way.
Or maybe it's just the complainers, the ones for whom it didn't work out all that well, who made these types of posts, like, "I'm FIRE, now what? I'm bored and depressed".
Another thing that the FIRE movement really encapsulated for me was...if a group wasn't EXPLICITLY anti-woke, they would become woke. FIRE at the beginning was a pretty normal group, frequently with an alternative, libertarian edge. Towards the end of when I stopped reading much on it, they got really woke, and allergic to other points of view.
Weird how that happened. I read an article like that somewhere (basically, if a group, no matter what type, was not explicitly anti-work, they became woke). I think I observed that in a number of places.
I used to hang out on the Mr Money Mustache forum - a FIRE forum (Financial Independence Retire Early).
I enjoyed the site, till they went woke. As a matter of fact, I was kicked out of the forum - no warning, nothing - when I suggested that people do some research, before they have their kids take the Covid jab.
There are honestly some really interesting articles on the site - I think the best stuff was mostly his blog posts. And believe me, they really have their numbers DOWN. The math really does work (there's plenty of articles on it).
I wonder if the "investing in index funds" strategy will work that well in the future. Also Mr Money Mustache is VERY anti bitcoin.
Thanks.
One more thing...wouldn't it be cool to have a few more options in "advanced search" ?
The option would be ~PostOnly and ~CommentOnly. To be able to distinguish between the two in the search results.
Okay, just one more thing - the font that the word Filters is written in, in the above screenshot, is actively working against understandability. Maybe switch it out with something else.
Interesting. I didn't think about the speed of acquisition being a big factor. I think you're right.
Also one more thing - maybe you could limit (in the search results) how many lines you show, for each result? Instead of showing EVERY single time where the target word shows up?
The way it is now, the results are hard to visually parse. This is probably also because the title is so hard to distinguish from the rest of the results.
And then somehow giving an indication, visually, of whether the search result is in the actual post, or in a comment.
Thanks for working on search.
The FORMAT of the search result output is hard to read.
I searched for @signal312 carnviore
- The word that you're searching for is highlighted, everywhere. If it's a somewhat common word, it's a confusing read
- The excessively bold highlighting of the search term obscures the difference between the different results. It's hard to tell where one starts, and the other begins
- The title of the post is in a pale gray. It's hard to see, and distinguish between them.
- The title is AFTER things that are less important. Like the sats, number of replies. Maybe those would be better on the next line, in a smaller font
- it's not possible (or is it?) to be able to tell whether the search term shows up in a post, or a comment. Would be nice if you could.
- Also - it doesn't look like search finds everything. I searched for this: @signal312 carnviore ... and it didn't find the article #335229. And I think more were missing.