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didn't know Catalina was a California location either, to me is just a female name. I actually though she might be a contributor to SSH project.
by sudoaza 7y ago
didn't know Catalina was a California location either, to me is just a female name. I actually though she might be a contributor to SSH project.
- albedoa 7y agoYou thought "Catalina 10.15.4" referred to a human woman? Come on.
- finnthehuman 7y agoA prominent branch of a project named after the maintainer, accompanied by a version number? That's a reasonable option for what "Catalina" might mean from context clues. Have you never run Alan Cox or Con Kolivas?
- albedoa 7y ago> That's a reasonable option for what "Catalina" might mean from context clues. Agreed! But my comment was in reply to someone who wants you to believe that he genuinely read "99.999%" as a claim about the size of the Mac user base. His game is not one of context clues, and you don't need to play it.
- sudoaza 7y agoyeah the numbers were weird but thought there's plenty of crazy usernames out there. Didn't pay a lot of attention though, went through the comments and saw it was about Mac and I could safely ignore it.
- tomhoward 7y agoSounds like you used the site as intended. On a website whose primary audience is technology professionals, it's reasonable to assume that a significant portion of the audience can recognise the version name of a computer operating system that is at least the second most-popular in the world, and possibly the most popular among this site's audience. But it's also part of HN's ethos that not everything has to be spelled out all the time, and that it's OK if users sometimes have to "work a little": https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&query=by%3Adang%20%22work%20a%20little%22&sort=byPopularity&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...