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		dang on Nov 19, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Is hacker “news” a lot less about hacker and more ... Meanwhile other users have the opposite complaint: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33648369 It's an optimization problem that never reaches anyone's optimum!

catnip09 on Nov 20, 2022 [–]

Question: why not write custom code to ping yourself at email when someone @dang?

Just curious because I would have figured it would do something given how often everyone uses it.

dang on Nov 20, 2022 | [–]

I don't know. Maybe because it's better for it to require a bit of activation energy.

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