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901.
by stephenr 3y ago
> HOT DOG Linux is an acronym that stands for Horrible Obsolete Typeface and Dreadful Onscreen Graphics for Linux. Based on the screenshots alone I'm confident that they've succeeded in their goals.
902.
by stephenr 3y ago
> I'd prefer at-most-once delivery via something that establishes a reusable connection (grpc or even websockets?) and backed by an events endpoint like Stripe's where the client can read everything that would have been sent. T
903.
by stephenr 3y ago
Unfortunately there's still no vagrant support for any of the raft of Virtualisation.framework apps that have popped up of late.
904.
by stephenr 3y ago
Unfortunately shitt.ing is already taken but defecat.ing is available and it's only like €23.
905.
by stephenr 3y ago
Given that someth.ing is €3100 a year, it was probably very literally "a lot of money spent for noth.ing"
906.
by stephenr 3y ago
Pfft that's mere chump change. `sell.ing` is available for the princely sum of €103,510.57
907.
by stephenr 3y ago
> there are literally no downsides to the consumer Sure, if your time is worth nothing, then there are no downsides. If you value your time and end up in a scenario like the article describes, you're looking at (a) service interrupt
908.
by stephenr 3y ago
> Outstanding climate - ... clear skies and sunny every day > Summer is 30-35c and humid often with storms. So it's outstanding except all the times when it's not.
909.
by stephenr 3y ago
> I'm sure Google didn't put any thought into their physical rollout. From the article: > “If anyone understood road technology or tire technology, [they] would know it’s going to be a problem,” said Jim Hayes, president of
910.
by stephenr 3y ago
Hmm. I don't know whether you edited your comment or I misread it, but I was sure you said "the Atheist believes in just one more God than the Monotheist" The difference though I think is at the core: the monotheist believe
911.
by stephenr 3y ago
> I get annoyed as much as anyone with Google's "shiny object" penchants, but this isn't one of those cases. The article is literally about them abandoning it in a given city because an idea that doesn't pass the
912.
by stephenr 3y ago
Well for one thing, I value my time. Dealing with getting a new service provider because the last one just decided to stop doing business is pretty low on the list of things I'd like to do with my time. For another, Google has a ridicu
913.
by stephenr 3y ago
I thought you must surely have meant `2'` vs `6'` (i.e. feet) and simply used the wrong symbol. I don't really understand how a 2" deep nano trench is meant to last any serious amount of time (compared to a regular condu
914.
by stephenr 3y ago
> I don't understand why people are scared of using services that have relatively low switching barriers, because they may be shut down one day. This suggests there's alternative services available anyway, so why take the risk
915.
by stephenr 3y ago
Given their penchant for abandoning things on a whim, I never really understood why people would ever choose to use a service like this, from Google.
916.
by stephenr 3y ago
An atheist definitely doesn't believe in more gods than a monotheist. You possibly meant some other kind of -theist?
917.
by stephenr 3y ago
Lobste.rs has an open moderation log: you can see what was done by who. It's one of the few places where I think it's possible to actually trust the moderators are treating things fairly.
918.
by stephenr 3y ago
> pure simple incompetence Hanlon's razor strikes again. The other day someone here (ostensibly a site for tech people) argued that the `Accept` header is useless, we can all just put random query string parameters or extensions in
919.
by stephenr 3y ago
> Accept-Lanuage is set to English most of the time, even for people in non-enlish speaking counties. Unless you can point to some kind of evidence that shows Accept-Language is set to English regardless of the host OS' language&#x2
920.
by stephenr 3y ago
I've heard this excuse before, and I don't buy it. I live in a non-English speaking country. The vast majority of people use their device in the local language, and for any browser to see the OS is set to - let's say, Tha
921.
by stephenr 3y ago
I mean look I have to sympathise with Google here. They've no doubt had the entire combined wisdom of Google looking at this problem and clearly there is just no way for human beings to comprehend what the `Accept-Language` header does
922.
by stephenr 3y ago
> I think the real victims here are the Lobsters community members. And yet Lobste.rs members aren't the ones complaining ad nauseum about it. > the people whose respect I'm earning. I'm not sure there's much dange
923.
by stephenr 3y ago
I've read the moderator's description[1] of this event and I don't think you're portraying things fairly. 1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36735833
924.
by stephenr 3y ago
Pretty much any complaint about moderation from anyone always has another side to the story. At least two of the tales of woe posted in this discussion have shown that the user was not in fact blameless.
925.
by stephenr 3y ago
> you get some obviously wrong claims I can't possibly imagine why you ever had a problem Edit: sorry I forgot to add the /s. I really thought it would be obvious this time .
926.
by stephenr 3y ago
It says you invited spammers. Did you try discussing the matter with the mods?
927.
by stephenr 3y ago
Flagged as what though? Without seeing actual examples of posted articles that were flagged it's honestly impossible to make any judgement. Edit: I should point out that this isn't a hypothetical question either. As the moderati
928.
by stephenr 3y ago
> know no one on it Shoot me an email, it's in my profile.
929.
by stephenr 3y ago
Lobste.rs definitely feels like less of an echo chamber: both Reddit and HN have a large "I don't agree with you, downvote" population - on HN this is officially endorsed as "correct" use too.
930.
by stephenr 3y ago
I find that a portmanteau combining names (of people, or things) can give a unique name. A famous example of this is Debian: (Deb)ra + Ian. We did this for my consulting company and ended up with Koalephant. Gold star if you can guess the c

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