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1. 121.▲
   by enw 5y ago

   This patch got me curious how the kernel is even tested. I have yet to see a single kernel commit that included any sort of tests.
2. 122.▲
   by enw 5y ago

   Somehow one of the tastiest memories I have is as a kid being outside and eating rye bread with butter.
3. 123.▲
   by enw 5y ago

   The video: https://youtube.com/watch?v=iazTQVi1CEE Skip to 1:45. Warning, it’s disturbing. Perhaps in a good way.
4. 124.▲
   by enw 5y ago

   Sad to see both LiveLeak and Best Gore gone. Not that I visited either much, but they really opened my eyes to the horrors of reality. What are alternatives to LiveLeak or Best Gore?
5. 125.▲
   by enw 5y ago

   And the relief when you see your name is nowhere near the defect.
6. 126.▲
   by enw 5y ago

   Answering myself: the apology feels more like a justification as to why they did, not an understanding of why they shouldn’t have.
7. 127.▲
   by enw 5y ago

   > Bringing up why you did something in an apology is very shaky. Like in this case, it can sound more like justifying / excusing. Why is that a problem?
8. 128.▲
   by enw 5y ago

   I didn’t read the article, but it was quite soothing to look at the chalkboard photos. Perhaps due to the superficial chaos and the order that arises from it.
9. 129.▲
   by enw 5y ago

   I’m sorry this has nothing to do with your post, but what are you doing on HN? I’m always so curious when I see the sheer diversity in backgrounds and interests on HN, especially when not directly related to tech.
10. 130.▲
    by enw 5y ago

    That successfully irritated me enough to stop reading. Why is race and gender so cheaply brought into everything, regardless if it has any relevancy?
11. 131.▲
    by enw 6y ago

    What about: drugs are fun?
12. 132.▲
    by enw 6y ago

    For any somewhat complex architecture, even with great tests and canaries there will be unexpected issues.
13. 133.▲
    by enw 6y ago

    HN has always been about a wide variety of topics.
14. 134.▲
    by enw 6y ago

    Why was this flagged?
15. 135.▲
    by enw 6y ago

    Only sortable when using a consistent ISO 8601 format.
16. 136.▲
    by enw 6y ago

    Windows 95 might not be the prettiest, but seems beautifully consistent in both UX and UI.
17. 137.▲
    by enw 6y ago

    That's true. But it has nothing to do with social skills.
18. 138.▲
    by enw 6y ago

    This is an unfortunate stereotype, and something that honestly made me loathe other "nerds" in high school. I often felt alone, as every other computer nerd felt like a caricature, rigid, deeply unfun and unnecessarily draconian i
19. 139.▲
    by enw 6y ago

    > Your teeth can never heal. They either stay the same or get worse. A dentist's job is to make them better.
20. 140.▲
    by enw 6y ago

    Tangentially related, but if you're curious, here's a photo of HMM Algeciras, the largest container ship in the world: https://www.easycargo3d.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/hmm-a... It's
21. 141.▲
    by enw 6y ago

    Why can’t we optimize the care process of COVID patients so that they don’t become a bottleneck? Surely with so many similar cases the processes could be streamlined?
22. 142.▲
    by enw 6y ago

    I’m assuming Amazon? Most of Amazon runs on Java.
23. 143.▲
    by enw 6y ago

    In fact I think requiring an expiry date is a huge negative of the spec and will likely hinder adoption. An expiry date brings along with it yet another maintenance burden for questionable benefit.
24. 144.▲
    by enw 6y ago

    No.
25. 145.▲
    by enw 6y ago

    Is reading comprehension in the gutter, or are people more resistant to emails full of badly-structured fluff?
26. 146.▲
    by enw 6y ago

    I've heard Czechs drink beer even for breakfast? Is there any truth to that?
27. 147.▲
    by enw 6y ago

    I'm guessing a big reason why it has never been prioritized is due to the difficulty of quantifying the impact of great trackpad UX (and as a result, the negative impact of the shitty trackpad UX every non-Apple device offers). Higher-
28. 148.▲
    by enw 6y ago

    YAML is one of the worst formats I've ever encountered due to its mind-boggling complexity. There's a ton of ways to represent booleans, a ton of ways to represent dates, a ton of ways to represent numbers of a ton of different ba
29. 149.▲
    by enw 6y ago

    And I see this obsession in some people in the industry trying to prematurely optimize every drop in their code, but they don't understand the added complexity results in inefficiency (mostly lost improvement potential) in the long-ter
30. 150.▲
    by enw 6y ago

    > I find them out of place (mixing cute things with technical matters) I love beautifully engineered software that's represented by a whimsical cartoon character or other non-vector-perfect hand-drawn art.