1. alrs Nov 25, 2025 parent

   Traditionally it was btrfs RAID5/6 that really sucked. I've not played with it.
2. alrs Nov 18, 2025 parent

   I can think of several taco trucks that are going to do just fine.
3. alrs Nov 12, 2025 parent

   FreeBSD has had a hard time supporting Intel Thinkpads, and they're making progress at getting better. Supporting Apple arm64 is a much heavier lift than that.
4. alrs Nov 5, 2025 parent

   I'm going to go way out on a limb and offer: whatever it is that you are, it isn't "confused."
5. alrs Oct 1, 2025 parent

   This is the kind of nerd-snark that makes normal people not trust anything from the mouths of "experts."

   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovKw6YjqSfM

6. alrs Aug 13, 2025 parent

   I feel that it's hard to be mad at Go if you look at it as "python 4.0."
7. alrs Aug 5, 2025 parent

   Undead, undead, undead.
8. alrs Aug 2, 2025 parent

   I've been running a Prosody server for a month or so. Thus far a positive experience.
9. 1 point Jul 29, 2025

   Canonical Laid Off the Founder of OpenPrinting

   1 comment alrs ubuntu.social
10. alrs Jul 28, 2025 parent

    "Modern" is the most passive-aggressive adjective in the history of HN.
11. alrs Mar 3, 2025 parent

    No argument from me. I'm not happy that Europe is in this position, I just wish that Europeans were aware of it.
12. alrs Feb 28, 2025 parent

    https://old.reddit.com/r/whowouldwin/comments/1aywc5a/europe...
13. alrs Feb 28, 2025 parent

    Europe has no say in the matter, short of France using its nukes.
14. alrs Feb 28, 2025 parent

    Europe is not allowed to have its own foreign policy, let alone "side with China." All of those US military bases are there for a reason.
15. alrs Jan 6, 2025 parent

    The Taco Bell menu is several permutations of cheese, lettuce, ground beef, sour cream, and guacamole.

    The marketing vocabulary includes Pro, Max, Sport, Comp, Light, Elite, XT, GT, Super, and Extra.

    SuperMax Pro. Sportmax GT. Sportmax Elite GT. Comp Extra. Etc.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ProMax

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Promax_Awards

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_MaxxPro

16. alrs Jan 6, 2025 parent

    Marketing things as "pro" is nothing new. I'm sure others could go back farther than this.

    1980 Koga Miyata Pro https://www.speedbicycles.ch/velo/193/koga_miyata_pro_racer_...

    1978 Centurion Pro Tour https://vintagecenturion.com/models/touring/protour.shtml

    1969 Brooks Professional Saddle https://www.brooksengland.com/en_us/standard-professional.ht...

    As for "rip-offs," the design language of every aluminum Macbook has basically been Leica rangefinder.

    https://www.rustmag.com/gear/2020/12/16/4-reasons-to-buy-a-l...

    Which is a double "rip-off," as the IBM Thinkpad goes back a lot farther and it was intentionally made black-with-red-accents to pay homage to Nikon while having the form factor of a bento box.

    http://www.mir.com.my/rb/photography/companies/nikon/htmls/m...

17. alrs Jan 4, 2025 parent

    As an American, every car I've ever owned was statistically included with an automatic transmission. Strangely, none of the cars I've owned have had an automatic transmission.

    Subaru was making CVT automatic cars back then that were even worse than the awful CVT cars of today. That would be my pick if I wanted to do a 30-year-old self driving car.

    https://japanesenostalgiccar.com/the-subaru-justy-pioneered-...

18. alrs Dec 8, 2024 parent

    I've had good results running alt-browsers behind Privoxy.

    https://www.privoxy.org/

19. alrs Nov 4, 2024 parent

    Who cares if the ISP supports ipv6? Figuring out a world without DHCP and subnetting on a LAN is the hard part.
20. alrs Jul 9, 2024 parent

    > Imagine walking into your office on a Monday morning, buzzing with ideas from a recent leadership retreat.

    Imagine, walking into your office on a Monday morning, and your boss wants to reinvent everything after having gotten drunk and dipped into a hot tub with the HR people.

21. alrs Jun 13, 2024 parent

    I'm no fan of Salesforce.

    Any HN submission with the word "modern" in the title should be shit-canned.

22. alrs May 13, 2024 parent

    It would be great if C# could be discussed as a language on its merits, but Microsoft has been a terrible steward. It's too bad.
23. alrs May 13, 2024 parent

    Assembly is too little abstraction. Go is not.
24. alrs Apr 28, 2024 parent

    I think Go is unique in this list in that the only other language that fills the same niche is Java, and Google can't afford to let the licensing whims of Oracle decide its fate.

    That said, I'm actively rooting for the demise of some of the others.

25. alrs Mar 31, 2024 parent

    Who cares about scans? Who cares if a scan comes in 4 or 6?
26. alrs Mar 30, 2024 parent

    It's not that bike lights are too bright, it's that they use garbage optics in countries that allow it. US brands have a bias towards off-road mountain bike lights that spray light everywhere. Look instead for bicycle lights that meet the German StVZO standard. Busch and Mueller stuff is good, you can also find generic stuff on AliExpress all day long.

    https://www.bikeradar.com/advice/buyers-guides/stvzo-bike-li...

27. alrs Mar 29, 2024 parent

    You're of the belief that Redis will merge LGPL-licensed commits into their tree?
28. alrs Mar 28, 2024 parent

    Yes, the point of open source is to share, so that others can take advantage of a solution to a given problem. Redis does not do that.
29. alrs Mar 28, 2024 parent

    This fork is going to be BSD licensed, so all of the fixes and improvements can upstream to Redis.

    redict is LGPL licensed, so that can't happen.

    https://codeberg.org/redict/redict

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