Sorry, I couldn't finish reading because the entire article is in capitals.
Right? Who thinks that is acceptable in 2025?
it was acceptable in 2024? what year did it become unacceptable?
You Are in a Box
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#92Earlier quoted context omitted.
That paper is about factotum which was introduced in 4th edition, like I said. Regardless, I'm more talking about the fact that transport encryption still isn't used ubiquitously to my knowledge.
> That paper is about factotum which was introduced in 4th edition, like I said. Which describes that yes, there was security in Plan 9 prior to Factotum, just that it wasn't good enough. > Regardless, I'm more talking about the fact that transport encryption still isn't used ubiquitously to my knowledge. It certainly is. You get SSL/TLS for free on Plan 9 as its a service. You dont mess with security code and instea…
I didn't see there wasn't, I said it wasn't a priority.
I stand corrected on tlssrv
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#93Sorry, I couldn't finish reading because the entire article is in capitals.
Looks like it checks for the referrer in main.js and adds the uppercase text-transform if you come from HN:
let host;
if (document.referrer) { host = (new URL(document.referrer)).host; }
if (host === "news.ycombinator.com" || host === "lobste.rs") {
let style = document.createElement('style');
// let transform = host === "lobste.rs" ?
style.textContent = `
body { text-transform: uppercase; }
pre, code { text-transform: none; }
`;
document.head.appendChild(style);
console.log("HN readers clearly can't handle the typing habits of the average trans girl.");
return;
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#94Sorry, I couldn't finish reading because the entire article is in capitals.
Looks like it checks for the referrer in main.js and adds the uppercase text-transform if you come from HN: let host; if (document.referrer) { host = (new URL(document.referrer)).host; } if (host === "news.ycombinator.com" || host === "lobste.rs") { let style = document.createElement('style'); // let transform = host === "lobste.rs" ? style.textContent = ` body { text-transform: uppercase; } pre, code { text-transfor…
Sounds like the author got called out for not capitalizing the start of her sentences[1] and decided that, if HN readers want capital letters, they will get them.
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#95The key point of the article is "your data is trapped inside your program", i.e. data models can't generally be shared between programs. One thing that has improved my life has been using apache arrow as a way to decrease the friction of sharing data between different executables. With arrow (and it's file based compressed cousin parquet), the idea is that once data is produced it never needs to be deserialized again…
How are you handling data update? Last I checked, Arrow and similar systems had extremely poor performance if you needed to mutate data at even modest rates.
you create an output arrow table and populate it with rows. but w/r/t the original idea, arrow data always comes with a schema and is efficient and compact, so it makes it easier to share data between different programs.
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#97Earlier quoted context omitted.
Right? Who thinks that is acceptable in 2025?
it was acceptable in 2024? what year did it become unacceptable?
Since October 1995 and the publication of RFC 1855.
https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1855
Communication has not been merely a matter of personal habit — it follows commonly accepted standards for exchanging information within a group. Ignoring these conventions risks your message being unread, unheard, or misunderstood.
That said, it seems possible the author is intentionally addressing a specific subgroup that has agreed upon a different set of communication rules.
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#99Earlier quoted context omitted.
Looks like it checks for the referrer in main.js and adds the uppercase text-transform if you come from HN: let host; if (document.referrer) { host = (new URL(document.referrer)).host; } if (host === "news.ycombinator.com" || host === "lobste.rs") { let style = document.createElement('style'); // let transform = host === "lobste.rs" ? style.textContent = ` body { text-transform: uppercase; } pre, code { text-transfor…
Sounds like the author got called out for not capitalizing the start of her sentences[1] and decided that, if HN readers want capital letters, they will get them. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39027187
It's a less... dramatic... version of what happens when HN links to JWZ's blog.
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#100Earlier quoted context omitted.
I do it a lot, do me a favor and don't attribute it to Sam Altman since some of us have been doing this for a long time. If you don't like it, you don't have to read it, but you also don't need to be patronizing and close-minded about how others choose to express themselves.
I think writing like this is disrespectful to your audience since they have to put in extra effort to parse your text. If you choose to express yourself like that, fine, but it's not patronizing to point this out.
Maybe you're not the intended audience! :)