- Maybe this will be an unpopular opinion, but I really dislike the lane layout, because it is not possible to efficiently take a glance at all elements in the list, one by one.
If you try to go left-to-right, you will quickly realize that at the end of each "line" it is really difficult to know where the next line starts. It is easy to accidentally start again on the same line (and inspect the same elements), or skip one accidentally. Then navigating through the elements one by one requires a considerable amount of cognitive effort, your eyes bounce up and down constantly, and you end up inspecting the same elements multiple times.
If you try to go top-to-bottom, lane by lane, you will then realize that the page also has infinite scroll and you will never go past the first lane.
- Same here, my commit history chart makes people think I suddenly died on October 21, 2023, going from all green to all white.
Bitbucket also implemented 2FA, but it's 100% optional, so I'm sticking with that for the moment.
- > I was speaking from a neutral and stoic stance. Nowhere did I imply manipulation or attempting to control another person
You literally said:
> your sentences are trying to control the other person's reaction and feelings towards you
Although the tone you hear in your head may sound stoic, I don't think that stance is neutral at all. You didn't say "I think your sentences..." or "Looks like your sentences..."; you made a subjective affirmation based on two sentences I said about people's feelings in conversations, on a thread about people's feelings in conversations, on a post about people's feelings in conversations.
If my two sentences in this context really mean that I am fixated, then everyone in HN is fixated on whatever they write, which is ridiculous.
I'm starting to think you are just trying to troll me.
- Did you notice? People tends to interpret others in the worst possible way; even you inferred from my two short sentences that I am a controlling person. I'm not offended, it's just funny, and kind of reinforces my previous point.
Regarding your interpretation, I respectfully disagree. I think there is a huge difference between influencing someone to do what you want and simply being careful with what you say in order to avoid triggering negative responses/feelings in your peers.
I don't think the latter falls into being controlling/manipulative in any way, on the contrary, I think it is the base of good social etiquette, and I prefer to be surrounded by people who behave like that than the opposite.
- And then, if you don't make any questions, they may think that you don't care enough about them. Also, if you just often share information that is interesting to you, some may think you are tedious/boring.
Socializing is really hard.
- I prefer not to have HL3 rather than a half-baked one, or a very short episode.
They have only one chance of publishing HL3, and I hope put in it the same love and care they put in 1 and 2.
I'd be very disappointed if they just released it just for the sake of releasing it.
- Everybody consumes bad content when they are a child, and everybody grows over it, becoming bored of it, and then looking for something better to do.
What show did you like when you were a kid? Do you still like it? Are you eager to consume it in the same amount as you did? If not, it means you grew over it.
When I was a child I loved the Monkey Island series, completing them several times a year. Solving the puzzles made feel smart, and the jokes made me chuckle. But now? I could hardly complete the high-res remakes or even the latest title. The puzzles are either too simple or just nonsensical try-and-error, I find the story boring and shallow (compared to other content I consume now), and none of the jokes really hit the spot anymore.
South Park even has an episode about it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxRFQ_333_Y
I think forbidding kids to access content they crave is wrong and cruel, as you are basically forbidding them from exploring their tastes, forbidding them from becoming interesting adults with refined and deep tastes.
Even in the case of alcohol, I think people should explore it and their limits (getting wasted) when they are young. I have an aunt who never tried alcohol until she was in her 40s, and she went through the same phases as teenagers; however, at that age getting too drunk too often has serious social consequences. She spiraled out of control, becoming alcoholic, and then later addicted to other drugs. I am not a psychology expert, but I always thought that her problem was that she was too old to explore this path.
In my country we have an idiom I like: "potro que no galopa, de caballo se desboca", which means "colts that don't gallop become wild horses".
- Has an authority ever forbid you to do something and you still did it?
If so, was it a problem that you didn't listen?
I'm not a parent, but fortnite is not like smoking or drugs, common. If you don't let kids grow over this kind of bad content, they will never become good discriminators.
- Thanks! I didn't know that expression came from Chomsky, now it makes total sense.
- What does "manufactured consent" mean?
I thought consent is a synonym of agreement or willingness. If so, what do they mean with "manufactured agreement" exactly?
I don't live in USA and English is not my mother language, so maybe I'm missing some alternative urban definition for this expression?
- In which of those countries is it possible for a man to work an ordinary job, buy a house, settle down with a wife and support two or three children?
- Even if he blocked it by accident, that is not a reason to shout.
Shouting will not prevent errors, and you are only creating a hostile work environment where not acting is better than the risk of making a mistake and triggering an aggressive response from your part.
- They will eventually get ads mixed in the responses.
- As someone not familiar with the term, I don't really understand the concept, and Wikipedia's definition doesn't look specific enough:
> generally describes creative works that expand upon and break away from concepts of postmodernist irony and cynicism.
That basically refers to anything that is not irony and cynicism, isn't it?
- Github will squash all commits into a single one that actually gets merged: https://github.com/antiwork/flexile/commit/123404b3caa52870b...
- First I thought it was just a simple witty canned response ala Han Solo, and got confused of why we were elevating it to the level of joke that required to be understood by someone intelligent.
Then, as a non English native speaker, I thought it was a word play ("you have had a bad Phil o Sophie ass" + "I had too many" or something).
Then, reading the responses to your comment, found it was the witty canned response I originally thought all along...
- How can KPIs from Google/Apple/Meta/X have any impact on the products third-party Android phone manufacturers decide to sell?
- That is very interesting. Excuse me if this question is too personal, but what do you mean by "system of delusions" exactly?
In your example,
- "Error while serving file" would be a bad error message,
- "Failed to read file 'foo/bar.html'" would be acceptable, and
- "Failed to read file 'foo/bar.html' due to EIO: Underlying device error (disk failure, I/O bus error). Please check the disk integrity." would be perfect (assuming the http server has access to the underlying error produced by the read operation).