Load balancing, but only the some node(s) were updated with a new template? Automatic worker process cycling, only some processes have cycled and loaded a new template?
Ask HN: Why do some timestamps on HN have a full stop at the end?
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#72Load balancing, but only the some node(s) were updated with a new template? Automatic worker process cycling, only some processes have cycled and loaded a new template?
Why load balancing? HN used to run on a single computer with 16GB of RAM[1]. I think this may still be the case. Not so? [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9222006
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#73Re: Ask HN: Why do some timestamps on HN have a full stop at the end?
#74Absence of the period (aka full stop) after the timestamp appears to indicate that a commenter had previously (perhaps recently) posted a comment which was subsequently flagged. Or that the commenter is new (see below). Here's what I did: I used ctrl-f/cmd-f on a well-commented post ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25190668 ) looking for the following search terms: ". [–]" and "o [–]" Then I reviewed some of th…
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#75Re: Ask HN: Why do some timestamps on HN have a full stop at the end?
#76I've never noticed that, you have a keen eye
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#77Load balancing, but only the some node(s) were updated with a new template? Automatic worker process cycling, only some processes have cycled and loaded a new template?
Why load balancing? HN used to run on a single computer with 16GB of RAM[1]. I think this may still be the case. Not so? [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9222006
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#78Well done! You have discovered part 1 of The Secret! Congratulations!! Clues to Part 2 of The Secret can be found in this Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random Stakes are high! At the end of the trail of clues, the Council of Immortal Wizards will ask you to join their ranks, at which time they will confer immortality upon you. There are only 10E100-1 steps to go! Good luck!
Off topic: is it new for HN to elide urls this way? I’ve never noticed it before but it really annoys me. I like that HN is just text, and preprocessing it this way adds no usability. It makes it harder to copy a URL, if anything, and it certainly isn’t prettier.
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#79Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why load balancing? HN used to run on a single computer with 16GB of RAM[1]. I think this may still be the case. Not so? [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9222006
I thought 16GB sounded rather low - it's 8*16 = 128GB.
I wonder what the resource usage is on that machine; and if it has had any updates in last 4 years.
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#80Earlier quoted context omitted.
That random wikipedia link is awesome. Didn’t know you could do that.
What's the name of the effect that when you click on something random you still end up on something related to you and you think "it's not that random". Because I got that https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microbridge
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletio...