The author begins by stating that "the absolute nightmare that is opening [the X1 Carbon] up to replace parts or clean them properly" rules it out.

He then eliminates the MacBook because if "something needs replacing I basically have an expensive paperweight, because everything is soldered together".

This would suggest that the author does, in theory at least, value repairability.

It's as fast as HN for me.

If you break out the Lighthouse perf score it's more visible. It's between 2 and 3 orders of magnitude slower than HN for me.

Okay, fine, you earned the upvote.

Now I just need to get the hang of docking in Elite.

Docking computer was like the very first thing I would buy. That or a mining laser so I could more quickly get the cash to buy the computer. On the C64 version, it would play Blue Danube in a shout out to 2001, and I still remember the horribly flat note in it (it had to be deliberate, the same note is fine in the rest of the piece). Sometimes it would try to dock with the wrong side of the station, but that usually only happened if you turned it on when on the wrong side already.

Before then, just approach the bay straight on and if you go slow enough, you'll dock fine even if it's perpendicular. Probably differs with whatever version you're playing though.

If memory serves, that was relatively easy? Compared with this?

You fly to the entry, point towards it, and then rotate until rotation speed and phase match.

But yea, the docking computer was definitely easier =)

"COINS" is "not in word list." Wordle happily accepts it.

I understand the pragmatic reasons behind such a decision, but insisting that I sign up with Google (and only Google) was an unfortunate blocker.

If anything, GitHub seems like a more obvious choice for such a site.

That is fair. I went with Google first because it let me ship the first version quickly, but for a tool aimed at developers GitHub and simple email sign in make much more sense.

I am working on both and plan to let people move their account once they are live if they would prefer not to use Google here.

I was hooked, but don't have a Google account anymore. Oh well…

Your comment has very little to do with your chosen quote.

You're arguing that the scale of the opioid problem is a direct result of the associated laws. The quote just states that heroin is harmful to humans.

In what way?

The device that immediately springs to mind is the Kindle. You can choose to buy a version without ads, or save ~10% and accept ads.

That seems like a reasonable compromise.

Both the browser and the website look remarkably similar to https://zen-browser.app/.

Because both are trying to be response to the death of Browser Company's Arc. (https://arc.net)

The browser designs look identical to Arc, yes, but the website of these two new “Arc responses” also look the same, down to the background color.

The only difference is zen is Firefox based while arc and nook are chromium based.

According to their FAQ, Nook is WebKit-based.

Oops I misunderstood, I thought the fact that it ran chrome extensions meant it was chromium based. Thanks.

Switched to zen recently, and although I only expected a slightly different experience to firefox, it's hugely better. Profiles/containers/workspaces especially are great.. this level or organization fits my mental model much better and and I never need to manage bookmarks or use multiple windows. (Performance with large numbers of tabs seems much better too, presumably inactive workspaces are reclaiming the memory in smart ways).

I agree that Go is a good choice for web services. I disagree that it's the only thing Go is good at. DevOps tooling and CLI tools immediately spring to mind.

Fair, CLI tools is why I said almost, but there's much more competition there. I wouldn't consider devops tools to be its own category though.