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Re:Hacker News Parody Thread by heresie-dabord on Sunday November 20, 2022 @09:06AM (#33680973)
As a US poster, I need all units of measure to be what the Founding Fathers used and all pickup trucks to be what the Founding Fathers drove.

As an EU poster, I won't understand the US obsession with large vehicles and I will recommend bicycling instead.

As a programmer, I think we can improve performance if we multithread, containerise, microservice, and store n-depth JSON in a No-SQL database.

As a Python programmer, this doesn't look Pythonic. We should be using pythonic Python, especially the new release that adds the syntactic sugar that we've all been waiting for.

Re:Hacker News Parody Thread by baxtr on Sunday November 20, 2022 @09:35AM (#33681177)
I’m sad not to read anything about Rust and Kubernetes.
Re:Hacker News Parody Thread by gnfargbl on Sunday November 20, 2022 @10:17AM (#33681521)
As a person running a single static website, I can confidently say that Kubernetes is the most overhyped technology ever. After having eventually realised that my tediously simple workload can be deployed effectively using a short systemd unit file and an even shorter ansible script, I no longer believe anyone actually runs production workloads on Kubernetes.

I will now be considering other options for the service mesh that my startup clearly needs to implement in order to send an occasional email newsletter.

Re:Hacker News Parody Thread by heresie-dabord on Sunday November 20, 2022 @10:26AM (#33681611)
My start-up has rewritten Kubernetes in Rust because Go is slow and doesn't implement traits in a rustaceous way. Now we have a system about which we still can't reason tractably, but we can guarantee memory safety wherever memory safety can be guaranteed.
Re:Hacker News Parody Thread by irusensei on Sunday November 20, 2022 @09:30AM (#33681146)
“As an EU poster, I need to remind everyone in every thread that I have health care and GDPR.”
Re:Hacker News Parody Thread by baxtr on Sunday November 20, 2022 @09:34AM (#33681168)
As an EU poster, the only thing that made a dent in the digital unvisere was GDPR and that’s why I need to remind everyone about it.

PS: I’m an EU poster

Re:Hacker News Parody Thread by lol768 on Sunday November 20, 2022 @10:57AM (#33681936)
"As an American poster, I will get really upset about the idea of GDPR applying to US companies that do business with EU citizens and businesses. I will also complain about other EU regulations, because regulation is bad, stifles innovation and we don't need it in the land of the free, unless the state is California."
Re:Hacker News Parody Thread by ithkuil on Sunday November 20, 2022 @12:07PM (#33682809)
"as an American poster I will also get annoyed by non-americans having anything to say about how our legislation works and how that affects them; after if it wasn't for us there wouldn't be any money around"
Re:Hacker News Parody Thread by Mistletoe on Sunday November 20, 2022 @09:47AM (#33681261)
NIMBY Keto.
Re:Hacker News Parody Thread by PicassoCTs on Sunday November 20, 2022 @09:51AM (#33681291)
As a(As a(As a(recursive defined class of person)))) im astounded by how important perspective and caste has become for some, while we are all just the same hairless monkeys
Re:Hacker News Parody Thread by jablala on Sunday November 20, 2022 @10:31AM (#33681671)
As a ______"____"______________, I agree.
Re:Hacker News Parody Thread by EvanAnderson on Sunday November 20, 2022 @10:38AM (#33681735)
> As an EU poster, I won't understand the US obsession with large vehicles and I will recommend bicycling instead.

This will launch the inevitable nightmare of pro/anti-helmet subthreads.

Re:Hacker News Parody Thread by heresie-dabord on Sunday November 20, 2022 @10:59AM (#33681963)
What nanny-state whiners don't understand is that helmets can actually twist your neck or choke you as you're flipping in the air and about to hit the pavement head-first. But it's worse than that, helmets give people a false sense of confidence. That's the real problem with our civilisation, too much confidence that death isn't imminent at every turn. Forewarned is forearmed, I always say to my shrinking coworkers. Oh yeah, pry my weapon from my cold, dead fingers.
Re:Hacker News Parody Thread by glogla on Sunday November 20, 2022 @11:02AM (#33681990)
> As a US poster, I need [...] all pickup trucks to be what the Founding Fathers drove.

> As an EU poster, I won't understand the US obsession with large vehicles and I will recommend bicycling instead.

I will not buy EV unless it can go 10000 miles on a single charge, otherwise it is not good enough for my-once-in-a-decade roadtrip.

Re:Hacker News Parody Thread by mechanical_bear on Sunday November 20, 2022 @11:12AM (#33682071)
I’d buy that EV…