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I had no idea that ACA prices were so different based on where you lived. I couldn't understand the numbers as I put in my family's stats & saw $600-$800/mo in my current and a couple of my former locations. Then I flipped to a random zip code in WV & it was $2200.


I miss n-gate


It's literally just ChatGPT told to sound like n-gate. The prompt begins:

> Create a humorous and mocking summary in the style of n-gate.com.

https://github.com/dfeldman/quackernews/blob/1d7591338579162...


I wonder whether the result would be closer to n-gate if the prompt left out "humorous and mocking".



https://x.com/atax1a/status/1529525996507914240

> An Internet (business model: Uber for tech industry criticism), who previously regularly updated on a weekly basis, hasn't been seen since August of 2021. They leave behind the following cryptic remark on Tweeter

  [Oct 2021] Rumors of my death are almost as exaggerated as my writing style.  Sorry for the delay; I'm catching up.
A Reddit comment claimed that n-gate was sued to stop publishing.


Some weeks would go by and I would just check n-gate to see what happened on HN.


I just checked it yesterday. I guess the writer died during COVID? I really miss his war on users take.


This is based on almost nothing but I always suspected it was done by maciej cegłowski. He has a very similar sort of semi-sincere contempt for the fixations of tech people and the writing style isn't that different from his social media persona. He also disappeared around the same time n-gate went inactive tho he eventually came back.


I don't think Maciej cares as much about HN as n-gate did.


This is the first time I'm hearing of n-gate. But if it's awesome then yeah, it was me.


I miss their about page

http://n-gate.com/about/


My favorite part of having something featured on hn was seeing it on n-gate the next week.


Every US state is at-will. The only state that significantly varies from this is Montana, wherein employment is at-will for only the first six months of employment, which would cover your case here.

https://www.paycor.com/resource-center/articles/employment-a...

I think the taboos are less around the law and more around trying to avoid a reputation that the company will can you a couple months after you've perhaps uprooted your life and moved to a whole new city. I wonder if the taboo will lessen in remote work contexts, where the employee is not so expected to uproot their lives for a job.


McSweeney's, not The Onion


this is pretty wild:

https://old.reddit.com/r/japan/comments/v8p9ga/japanese_poli...

> You can't carry ANY dangerous objects without a justified reason. E.g., you're going camping.

> The blade length is one law. Carrying it without reason is another law.

> Don't leave tools in your car, for example. You can get arrested over a screwdriver.


One of my favorite musicians. I was not aware of this backstory, but I'm glad it happened :)

https://eeveebeats.bandcamp.com


This used to exist in the US as well:

http://gbnfgroceries.blogspot.com/2014/01/from-misc-foods-ai...

I remember these being an entire aisle in the grocery store in the 80s. I think they've been replaced by store brands with more colorful packaging


Walmart did this back in 2013 under the Price First label. About 3 years later they dropped it.


A cool feature would be to take keyboard input. Either 'abcdefg' typed in or else one of those skeuomorphic layouts used by DAWs. Or else even better, if it supported webmidi so someone could plug in a midi keyboard.

I find the mouse clicking to kinda get in my way, though I see why this makes sense for mobile.

Another cool feature would be if it actually played the tone when pressed. Or chords.

But also super cool as is. I've always had trouble remembering bass cleft notes + I didn't even know all those other clefts even existed.


Thanks for the excellent suggestions!

Sound is in the works. It's a little complicated but it'll eventually work.

MIDI, IDK; I'd like to avoid this being another keyboard playing app. But maybe it's a natural development. We'll see.

But regarding keyboard support, that's a great idea. It would be so much more fluid than using the mouse when on desktop. On it!


What would happen if you just started with a slug?


I don't think you could deliver as much energy to it because it has such a small surface area normal to the direction of travel.


It’s really hard to get a slug Moving like that without tearing it apart. It’s easier to use the explosive to spread the force over a wider area initially but in a way that the projectile is formed by the concentration of the explosive forces mashing it all together. Weird.


Are leading commas allowed? Because otherwise, you've just traded out the inability to comment out the last element for the inability to comment out the first. I never understood this convention.


I agree that it's ugly and don't use it myself, but I find that I modify the last item in a list far more frequently than the first. Probably because the grouping columns tend to go first by convention, and these change less.


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