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I thought that was supposed to be banned by international treaty.

HASS configuration has gotten a lot better in the past few years. Almost everything can now be done via the UI, including automation and scripting, and it's one of the smoothest sc…

Your personal information is valuable. See also why smart TVs are/were cheaper than "dumb" TVs when the latter was even still an option.

Wait, you can't shard on session ID? And this is an ephemeral key-value store here, which is basically a best-case scenario from a performance standpoint. It's basically the last t…

And the former default is no longer developer friendly. (Or friendly to anyone else, really.)

Tags are crowdsourced. I was tagging games with "always-online DRM" before they declared it on the store page, but only the top few tags are displayed, so there's no point.

String/str are both valid UTF-8 by definition, though. Plain ol' piles of bytes in Rust are generally represented by Vec /[u8]. Rust could have done better in naming, but a definit…

You realize that the Industrial Revolution was almost 100 years long, right?

You're in the right ballpark, though a good chair can easily get you into the 5 figures. Top-end is perhaps $20k.

They're crap. And that's what you find at hospitals and airports.

Late to the party, but I just wanted to say how refreshing it is to see an accessibility-related post on HN that isn't about a bunch of able-bodied MIT undergrads winning awards fr…

Yes, it's based in the real world. This was the Falcon 9 launch price that I could come up with in the amount of time I was willing to spend on a shitpost. I agree that launch pric…

Presuming that you mean "stairs", these exist and impress Hacker News users who think any problem can be solved with enough overengineering, but nobody really uses them because the…

This is a bit like saying that an ill-fitting bicycle can cause more harm than good: technically true but missing the point. Sometimes it's valuable to have a cheap bicycle that yo…

Hah, beat me to the nerd snipe. Moreover, that sphere would cost $10k to make and, at a launch price of $1500/kg, cost $4.5 million to launch into orbit.

The Python core docs are uniquely terrible, though.

Is it illegal, in fact? If a cop saw you, you'd be arrested and prosecuted for attempted auto theft, and your "I just wanted to see how comfy the driver's seat was" defense would r…

It's no better at exporting to CSV. I wrote a CSV parser a few years ago that had one set of logic for Excel CSVs and a completely different set for everything else.

He's also running out of lawyers willing to commit perjury and risk disbarment on his behalf.

I don't know either, but it seems like approximately 100% of the reason game studios opt not to self-publish in this day and age is that lift. Annapurna's name alone carried a lot …

Your domain isn't `null.example.com` or something, is it?

> forming non-profit organizations to address public needs (such as subscription libraries, fire departments, and street sweepers) I'm curious to know when Y Combinator did this.

I can see bearing a grudge for 50 years over that one, though.

Gallons are larger than litres, so in Canada you'll never find anything sold by the gallon. However, pounds are smaller than kilograms, so produce at the grocery store is commonly …

Yes. I'm not sure what a donation is for, if not for the recipient to spend as they see fit. And this isn't a matter of spending donor money on unrelated but deserving causes - as …