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People who don't enjoy sunburns on their hands put sunscreen on their hands.

My electricity and water is much more reliable than my Internet service. Then again, I've never called my ISP about an issue that wasn't 100% on them, but the HN crowd is more exce…

My car beeps occasionally, but it certainly doesn't rise to the level you describe. Some of them represent real safety issues, even if you don't think they do in that moment. For e…

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Put another way: Worse is Better

Prusa. Made in Europe, from quality components (or buy it as a kit from them and build it yourself, which is a really fantastic experience). Hardware is repairable and upgradable a…

I think as a technical term, pausless (as used here) has a specific meaning, just like real-time has a specific technical meaning (not literally 0 latency since that's generally ph…

That's a great idea. Let's do that. And until that happens, helping people file their taxes for free is a benefit to everyone (except tax prep companies).

I would be surprised if much of that funding went to constructing those fancy buildings - donors who want their name over the door like to do that. Keeping the lights on, air heate…

Programming languages are complicated. Their standard libraries are extensive. Real world application are usually not trivial, because they often model real world processes, and th…

Something that Rust got _really_ right: Editions. And not just that they exist, but that they are specified per module, and you can mix and match modules with different Editions wi…

I self-host Tiny Tiny RSS ( https://tt-rss.org/ ). I think it will do everything you want (and more). The web UI is fine, and the Android app is great. It's actively developed, has…

It's great that it works for you. It doesn't work great for a lot of other people. The hate is because the "Gnome developers" (and that's an unfair generalization on my part, but l…

Can confirm. Had 3 or 4 batteries replaced (under warranty) before the local dealership informed me that "some DCMs cause parasitic battery drain". I brought it in, they ran some s…

I don't believe that S3 Bucket Policies are deprecated. They are powerful, effective, and consistent with almost everything else at AWS (Resource Policy). Perhaps you are thinking …

I believe that the concern is that it will infringe on some people's ability to use their computers to interact with some websites (something which is vital to living in our modern…

Debugging and troubleshooting a networking problem is approximately the same on Windows vs Linux (except that there are additional powerful tools available built-in to most Linux d…

Absolutely. As a paying Google Workspace customer (or whatever it's called this week) I have called support on a number of occasions. Zero times have they been able to help in any …

Enforced rotation of passwords on a schedule is no longer recommend, and is advised against. Mandatory immediate expiration/rotation of all credentials that have been (or are suspe…

Exactly. In fact almost everything in the article is icing on-top. The entire experience of the McMaster Carr website is the taxonomy and the fact that the search and navigation _w…

But I think that's the problem. For some things, the "form" is important, things like marketing sites, maybe prose. But for sites that are supposed to be highly functional, informa…

Take a step back and ask "why do I need to know the length of this thing?" If it's so you know how much storage to allocate, then the process/time is the same for both (the answer …

And just to make sure your brain always has to concentrate when switching (beyond the fact that you now need two sets of shortcuts instead of one): Cmd+Tab cycles from most-recentl…

It is notable that you said "Writing Ruby feels..." but made no mention of _reading_ Ruby. I think I agree with you that I enjoy writing Ruby more, but I definitely enjoy reading P…

They have been moving toward a model where there are no more toll booths, no one slows down. If you have EZ Pass, you are scammed and your account billed. If you don't, they take a…