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Why not use italics instead? How does the ">" help? You can put it at the beginning of the paragraph, but lines get re-flowed so you can't put it at the beginning of lines.
The > was the original (?) convention for email. But seriously HN should just allow basic quotes. And, while they are at it, increase the size of voting arrows to make it possible to reliably hit them on mobile. I get it’s somewhat nice to have a site that does not constantly redesign everything, but pretending you lost the password for the server is just overdoing it in the opposite direction.
I was left satisfied when they added the unvote/undown buttons. I only miss on my first try about 10% of the time :)
We managed to centralize everything, email, git, even the web. I understand 99.99 looks fine, but is somewhat sad to see half the world without email.
I'd be happy to move away from Gmail. Unfortunatelty, I happen to hate spam so that's not really an option.
Make the move away from Google, don’t be scared and don’t be guided by false excuses.
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> Someone's in a really pedantic mood today. Hint: it's you
> Eschew flamebait. Don't introduce flamewar topics unless you have something genuinely new to say. Avoid unrelated controversies and generic tangents. [0] > Hint: it's you My comment may or may not be wrong but it was still on the topic of the article. I'll let you judge your own. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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I'd be happy to move away from Gmail. Unfortunatelty, I happen to hate spam so that's not really an option.
I’m on Fastmail. Spam is filtered out perfectly and no false positives in 2 years of service. Make the move away from Google, don’t be scared and don’t be guided by false excuses.
We managed to centralize everything, email, git, even the web. I understand 99.99 looks fine, but is somewhat sad to see half the world without email.
I'd be happy to move away from Gmail. Unfortunatelty, I happen to hate spam so that's not really an option.
That was what kept me on GMail for so long. But about a month ago I moved several accounts to FastMail (at the urging of others on HN), and have been pleasantly surprised by the results.
FM seems to have a lot fewer false positives, and the amount of spam that gets through seems only marginally more than with GMail.
FM offers a 30-day free trial, which even includes using your own domain. That I found surprising. Usually trials so restricted you can't really get a sense of what you're getting into.
Global does not mean "affecting absolutely everyone around the globe (or disc, for the flatearthers out there)". Affecting a "significant subset of users" that are spread around every continent is global and it shows it's not one specific DC, link, or ISP that was affected. The fact that you didn't experience the disruption means absolutely nothing and it's ridiculous to even suggest it does. Especially since there a…
As someone working on a mail service of my own, this is heartening to see. Even Google messes up sometimes.
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From the first SRE book [1]: "The error budget stems from the observation that 100% is the wrong reliability target for basically everything (pacemakers and anti-lock brakes being notable exceptions). In general, for any software service or system, 100% is not the right reliability target because no user can tell the difference between a system being 100% available and 99.999% available. There are many other systems…
Please, please stop using mono space for quotes. It’s hard to read on small screens. Just > is better.