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> If this is correct, then I would correct my wording You should want to correct it regardless of the outcome of that "if". The fact is, (a) you are carelessly speculating about de…

> this is discussion of the evidence You (and by now, others, too) are derailing the thread from the topic at hand by trying to make it one, but no, that's not what this is. this t…

> a year ago when you formed this opinion This is a nonsense sentence. It's not even clear what you're even trying to say here, but it's certain that whatever it is you are making …

> * This implies that Grosskreutz re-racked his gun at some point--something he claims is a threat to kill. It doesn't imply that. It would be nice if, in a thread about the media …

> Removing this is going to waste peoples time. The term of art is ‘increase engagement’.

> intensive purposes What

U+005C is REVERSE SOLIDUS, it always has been.

Surely you mean the programming languages of the future are scripting languages? Written the other way around doesn't make sense.

For anyone who's been burned by these: Why aren't you equally as mad at the personnel at your child's school? It's one thing for a national or semi-national rollout of broken enter…

> Saving 10k is unbelievably difficult unless you're making extremely good money to the point where it's out of reach for the majority of Americans. Most Americans can't even stoma…

> I’m highly paid and enjoy the nature of my work, but every couple weeks I think about resigning. Delegation is the cornerstone of civilization. https://sandstorm.io/news/2015-05-…

> We’ve had the HTML element for over a decade. Yet, everyone still defaults to embedding YouTube frames instead of hosting their own videos. The underlying problem is that the ele…

This article refers to TLDs as domain "extensions" in a few places, which is not really a thing(1). Please don't make it a thing. 1. Or at least to the extent that it is currently …

Joke’s on you, Google search results are already atrociously useless as they are and nobody cares.

Icons clearly come from Windows 95 (some, I think, from Millennium even). Not in itself a bad thing (I do actually think 9x icons were an improvement), but if it’s advertised as mi…

In your HN profile settings, change the top bar color (to something jarring/habit-breaking), as a reminder the next time you land here instead of there.

Nice as a proof of concept, but it renders one's browser history useless, and Ctrl+F is mostly broken as well. Recommend taking an additive approach—to enhance navigability with ne…

It’s called NewPipe

Next you will be telling me that git is already a blockchain!

A couple of times I have been tempted to convert my daily-use computers to bcachefs, but this item on https://bcachefs.org/ > has consistently dissuaded me: > We currently walk all…

It wouldn't be. Neither Brave nor Chrome use WebKit.

Yet another tool that conflates Git with GitHub, but that seems to be the norm these days.

wxWidgets would like a word.

Now that I looked, Debian lists it under ‘Suggests’, so apparently it’s not mandatory. Still, I get the impression it’s at least preferred.