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I endlessly revise outgoing messages, often rearranging parts of my sentences to ensure what I'm saying is clear (enough). After mistakenly hitting Send enough times, especially when there's an apostrophe in the text, if the message is at all important or complex enough, I drop into a text editor first, then paste and send. This also skips the "X is typing" problems you describe.

I wonder how many other people do this.

Seems like it should be isisitdownrightnowdownrightnow.com

Looks similar to the Django Admin Site, which also auto generates a UI based on models. When I switched my primary stack from Python/Django to ASP/MVC, the Admin Site was sorely missed.

https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/3.2/intro/tutorial07/

The MS Sidewinder 3D Pro had twist to roll, throttle control for forward/backward, and a 4-way hat switch for translation (aka ‘strafing’, if we’re both taking about the same thing here). It was perfect for Descent.

Edit: and Freespace!

Knowing when to say ‘No’ is an important (and probably underrated) skill.

Or the bike was a rare or otherwise irreplaceable item.

Ever heard the expression “do one thing well”? Unix applications were built on this principle, if you need a reference.

Let the chat app be a chat app. Let the payment app be a payment app.

Or, to put it another way, do you recognize that a chat app and a payment app have different incentives? Combining them means now your chat app has payment app related incentives. Do you see this as a good thing? If so, why?

Agreed, please just be a chat app.

My dishwasher and washing machine do meaningful work for me, saving many hours each day/week. But what you describe is saving a minute here, a second there. Spending time on things that matter is all well and good, but is there really a difference between doing those things for 4 hours rather than 3 hours and 52 minutes?

Anyone else raising an eyebrow at a guy like PG with a non-SSL site?

Jekyll lost me at “step one, install ruby”

Forgive my ignorance but aren't there a finite number of bitcoins? A casual search says the world has mined 18.5 million out of a total of 21 million, after which, doesn't the mining process stop, along with the current environmental impact?

Nice work. Just a heads up for troubleshooting, I searched for Succession and it shows when Season 1 and Season 2 were released, and said it's next season is Season 4. Looks like Season 3 was skipped? https://i.imgur.com/2IegGEK.png

Is it really fair to count Super Mario World in the best-seller list considering it came with the console?

I don't doubt that you have the feeling that "SPAs are slow", but what if you're just not noticing the good/fast SPAs because they're not slow?

No problem!

PS I think your Pro tier is too cheap ;) anyone that wants to remove your branding (and perhaps whitelabel the product as their own?) is a big enough outfit to pay more than what you're asking.

Cool project, I like that you've clearly stated on the front page exactly what it's for.

Just FYI the bottom of your Blog pages contains a button with a strange label CANVAS::BLOG.BUTTON.NEXT

Also the link to your Privacy Policy has (almost) the same foreground and background color.

https://i.imgur.com/HcU0wOy.png

I joined SA in '03. A few years later when Reddit launched, I rejected the "hierarchical" nature of Reddit posts, multiple posters having their own conversations in different parts of the same post just seemed harder to keep track of, similar to an email chain with new people joining and replying to different parts of the chain. SA's threads were, and still are, non-hierarchical.

At some point something interesting started happening, at least in the sub-forums I participate in. So called "megathreads" started gobbling up what would have been new threads, e.g. the "Python questions that don't deserve their own thread" thread. It was (and still is) enough to simply bookmark individual megathreads of interest, rather than the sub-forum itself. It was as if the megathread itself had become hyper-specific forums in their own right.

I see megathreads now as slow-moving asynchronous chat rooms, with a good membership mixture of regulars and newcomers. The pace agrees with me.

Regarding #2, would you really be ok with loading half a configuration file? Or am I misunderstanding your point?

> So I think the only way forward is to figure out how to sell articles.

If you thought clickbait article titles were bad now...

Great book.

endymi0n ... from the planet Hyperion?

Personally I don’t think the benefit of smart devices outweighs the risk of not keeping them “VLANed, pi-holed, or even MITM’d with filtering”.

What are the benefits anyways? Not having to physically get up and flick a light switch anymore? Getting a push notification from my fridge that we’re out of milk? Whyyy?

With BitBucket sunsetting hg repos (creation disabled in February 2020, all repos removed in June 2020), it would be quite timely if this extension matures in short order.

One can dream, I suppose ;)

In February 2020 BitBucket will prevent creation of new hg repos. In June 2020 all hg repos will be removed. https://bitbucket.org/blog/sunsetting-mercurial-support-in-b...

One doesn't need to write perfect documentation to point out bad documentation. That said, I was hoping for more concrete examples.

Then they change the settings, and if they're a considerate human being, they change them back. If they're not, then you get to grumble a bit, change them back yourself, and consider not sharing your car with that person again. I don't think the world has lost anything substantial here.

Just realized I might be a grumpy old man.

iPhone 5 SE. Headphone jack: Check. TouchID: Check. No FaceID: Check. Actually fits in my hand and I can reach any part of the screen with my thumb: Check.

I guess it's not a "fast" smartphone anymore but... it's definitely Fast Enough.

For a steady stream of these, check out https://twitter.com/PWTooStrong

What the hell is "the best of Pocket's content"? I switched to FireFox to avoid stuff like this.