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by Zikes 9y ago
> Mods should honour these requests, because not doing so leads to bad things. You don't get to imply I'm about to break the site rules and then ignore that.
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by Zikes 9y ago
Hey dang, still waiting on my ban. Or a response detailing how HN will be revamping the flagging system to prevent its abuse for censorship. But I'm not holding my breath for that one.
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by Zikes 9y ago
I don't care.
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by Zikes 9y ago
I may be tilted, but I don't intend to intentionally break the site rules just to force a ban. It'd just undermine the point I'm trying to make about wanting to have a fair and reasonable discussion.
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by Zikes 9y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14693109 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14692712 These are entirely reasonable statements, and they're flagged. Not just downvoted, flagged . Censored. Remov
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by Zikes 9y ago
Maybe the flagging/downvoting system should be revisited, then. It seems like dissenting opinions are simply downvoted rather than challenged out in the open, as they should be. This means that discussions turn into a single-sided affa
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by Zikes 9y ago
> Generalized sexist statements and behavior that convey insulting or degrading attitudes about women (e.g. Insulting remarks, obscene jokes or humor about sex or women in general) This should be generalized to include both sexes. I ofte
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by Zikes 9y ago
You paid $140 on Amazon for a Raspberry Pi with Nintendo's plastic case and logo.
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by Zikes 9y ago
I look forward to these selling out before I've had a chance to buy them at MSRP, then finding them resold by the dozen on eBay for hundreds of dollars.
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by Zikes 9y ago
I also wondered if it was recyclable, and according to the business's web site it is: https://tb-m.com/en/about/paper/
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by Zikes 9y ago
That's good to hear, I have some Swedish friends that are looking to move to Calgary in the next few years and were worried about tech job availability.
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by Zikes 9y ago
I don't understand how Python's popularity in relation to Go has anything to do with whether or not Python has good concurrency support. As I understand it, Python's Global Interpreter Lock means that no matter how many threa
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by Zikes 9y ago
https://developer.chrome.com/apps/richNotifications
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by Zikes 9y ago
One new technique that's notably missing, and egregiously abusable, is browser notifications. Several times a day now I'll go to a web site that immediately pops up a browser-native non-modal notification asking for permission t
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by Zikes 9y ago
If I were somehow offended by your statement that wouldn't automatically put me in the right and you in the wrong. You can't control how I feel about what you say, but I also can't use my feelings to claim an unassailable mor
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by Zikes 9y ago
> but clearly, the imbalance of power between men and women is so large, that there is still no question about which side has more power. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, as of 2006 only 3.6% of alimony recipients were men. https:&#
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by Zikes 9y ago
> The recipient determines how they feel about your posting, not you. Doesn't mean they're always right.
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by Zikes 9y ago
I wonder how long until someone "jailbreaks" Teslas.
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by Zikes 9y ago
From https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/workloads/controllers/re... > A ReplicaSet ensures that a specified number of pod “replicas” are running at any given time. However, a Deployment is a higher-l
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by Zikes 9y ago
There's an update at the bottom of the article for this: > UPDATE: It turns out the BBC Globe ident wasn’t rotoscoped or animated, instead it was recorded live using the Noddy camera system and the color was created by adjusting the
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by Zikes 9y ago
I'm a nomad & hoarder on Google Play Music, and I find it's fairly well-suited to my habits. I have a large library of songs I like, and when I'm in the mood to discover something new I'll a) Pick an artist and liste
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by Zikes 9y ago
> It's so widespread that there are multiple libraries that tout this as a feature! Which libraries?
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by Zikes 9y ago
http://picturesofpeoplescanningmicrosofttags.tumblr.com/
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by Zikes 9y ago
Perhaps a nice card from https://lob.com/ with a QR code to the RSVP form?
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by Zikes 9y ago
Kubernetes is designed specifically to abstract the clustered nature of multiple machines into something that's singly addressable. The upcoming addition of federation is intended to add another abstraction on top of that, allowing the
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by Zikes 9y ago
Yes, it is. However when I went looking for a "HA Postgres" solution I found it to be a viable alternative for my use case.
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by Zikes 9y ago
There's also CockroachDB, which is wire-compatible with Postgres. Of course, there are also some performance trade-offs to consider, and it is currently missing many SQL and data type features available in Postgres and others.
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by Zikes 9y ago
I don't think it's unreasonable to expect an officially supported optional module, at the very least. It's how they've handled experimental features in the past.
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by Zikes 9y ago
I'm surprised by the lack of first-class ACME/Let's Encrypt support. I figured once Caddy paved the way in that regard that nginx wouldn't be far behind.
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by Zikes 9y ago
dep is being adopted as the officially "blessed" tool of choice.

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