>if you say something is unlimited I'm going to take your word for it
The sentence refers to people like you. It doesn't make you incredibly clever to consider those sentences literally, like small children or those with under-developed empathy and theory of mind often do
It just makes you an inconsiderate numpty
>Hacker News would be on the complete opposite
Yes, there are lots of people on the tech scene that just don't get ideas like "don't abuse it", or "considering the consequences for other people"
Got to love the cleverness with the people who design services with the assumption that there are no such people and then goes on to hackernews and cries when a kid in China breaks their site. Lol.
Insanely incompetent.
It's not abuse if you say it's free and unlimited and someone uses it freely and unlimitedly! This is why sites have acceptable use policies and terms of service. This is why most sites don't say their tool is free and unlimited.
It is what those words mean. It is literal. If I read an acceptable use policy and then went on to use it in a way that is not allowed that would be silly.
> The sentence refers to people like you
> It just makes you an inconsiderate numpty
Speaking of "like small children or those with under-developed empathy and theory of mind", I'm not sure these were needed. Can we just discuss things? I promise my mind is open whether you insult it or not, I'm just not convinced by the argument at this point :)
I hope you got a nice slither of dopamine out of namecalling though in any case, haha
>I'm not sure these were needed
The original wording I was gonna use before deciding to be more considerate was "small children and autists"
If you can think of another short descriptor for "people who obtusely take things literally and are unable or refuse to account for other people's state of mind", I'm happy to use those instead
>I hope you got a nice slither of dopamine out of namecalling though in any case
In fact, it was far more than a sliver!
Upon further reflection, I think I got a lot of repressed anger for never having smacked people who can't behave unless they are explicitly told to do so, who actually need the "within reason" clause everywhere, and who are happy to play with technicalities when it comes to justifying their behaviour
I dunno if my mind is changed just yet but if I'm honest with myself adding it to a widely deployed app would be in my 'dick move' category.
Just set your own up, or use a DNS method which comes with the bonus of built in caching.
For what it's worth I've never actually taken anyone up on their unlimited offers, I try to keep my services neat and tidy :)
What does this sentence even mean lmao
Autism-level consideration for what one says or not, if you say something is unlimited I'm going to take your word for it. If it's limited, tell me the limits. If it's free to a point, tell me the point. If I need to bust out the CC, tell me I need to bust out the CC.
Don't say your thing is free and unlimited if you can't handle unlimited traffic for free..
Hacker News would be on the complete opposite end of the anger scale if this was an ISP telling their users they can't actually use the "unlimited" they promised, haha