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Ask HN: Why do some timestamps on HN have a full stop at the end?

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Re: Ask HN: Why do some timestamps on HN have a full stop at the end?

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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?

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

Re: Ask HN: Why do some timestamps on HN have a full stop at the end?

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post #71

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?

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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Re: Ask HN: Why do some timestamps on HN have a full stop at the end?

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Absence 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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Re: Ask HN: Why do some timestamps on HN have a full stop at the end?

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post #16

Different files / functions / methods / views (pick your name) on the server rendering timestamps in a different way?

Also my iOS client does it.

Don't these just work with web scraping most of the time? That would explain that.

Re: Ask HN: Why do some timestamps on HN have a full stop at the end?

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post #71

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?

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.

Re: Ask HN: Why do some timestamps on HN have a full stop at the end?

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Well 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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Re: Ask HN: Why do some timestamps on HN have a full stop at the end?

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post #71

Earlier 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 stand corrected, thanks!

I wonder what the resource usage is on that machine; and if it has had any updates in last 4 years.

Re: Ask HN: Why do some timestamps on HN have a full stop at the end?

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Earlier 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

That article "Microbridge" should really be deleted because it's not notable, but it looks like it was proposed in 2011 and failed so it isn't eligible for WP:PROD and needs to go through the full WP:AFD process.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletio...

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