[HN Gopher] I, Sharpie
       ___________________________________________________________________
        
       I, Sharpie
        
       Author : delichon
       Score  : 8 points
       Date   : 2025-10-15 23:57 UTC (6 days ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (www.commonplace.org)
 (TXT) w3m dump (www.commonplace.org)
        
       | theamk wrote:
       | it's a bad re-telling of [0] "Sharpie found a way to make pens
       | more cheaply by manufacturing them in the U.S.", in the style of
       | famous "I, Pencil" essay [1]. But while original text was full of
       | interesting technical facts with a bit of politics mixed in, this
       | imitation has no interesting technical details.
       | 
       | [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45480354
       | 
       | [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13016980
        
       | Animats wrote:
       | Onshoring is easier when your product has six parts.
        
       | profsummergig wrote:
       | I don't understand the appeal of Sharpies. Even if left unused,
       | they die out in a relatively short time. The ones meant for paper
       | are not meant to be used on whiteboards. And they don't write
       | (flow) particularly well on either (the colored ones are
       | particularly terrible on whiteboards).
       | 
       | Maybe I'm using them wrong. Happy to be corrected, and to hear
       | your recos on better alternatives.
        
       ___________________________________________________________________
       (page generated 2025-10-22 23:00 UTC)