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Re:Submarine Cable Resilience on Wednesday October 14, 2026 @02:17PM (#50092357)
I forget who said it, but there's a quote about how _of course_ we know more about space than the bottom of the ocean - in space we only have to deal with one atmosphere.
Re:Uv 0.12.0 on Tuesday July 28, 2026 @05:23PM (#49090097)
Perhaps something requiring opt-in sooner, so project maintainers can - through config - say "we don't use the pip interface on this project"?
Re:Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (July 2026) on Monday July 13, 2026 @12:02PM (#48894716)
A web and mobile app for tracking cellar contents that doesn't feel dated or clunky, and with which I can make assorted dynamically-updating menus for different use cases. I'll probably do a Show HN once it's live.
Re:Separating signal from noise in coding evaluations on Wednesday July 08, 2026 @05:33PM (#48837721)
I've generally found DeepSWE[0] to be pretty true to reality.

[0]: https://deepswe.datacurve.ai/

Re:The Oxford Comma – Why and Why Not on Thursday March 26, 2026 @03:04PM (#47534349)
There are so many times the Oxford comma prevents ambiguity. I have yet to see a counterexample. Commas separate list entries, don't change it for the last one.
I suppose it appears a bunch in training data. Marcus Aurelius and Marcus Crassus get mentioned a lot through history.
Headline's a bit misleading. They've never permanently lost a bag, and well done to them for that, but they've certainly lost them for periods of time. Just eventually found them.
Re:Kilobyte is precisely 1000 bytes on Tuesday February 03, 2026 @01:33PM (#46875122)
Upper-K is for Kelvin, so can't be mixed in as a prefix in case someone decides to commit physics crimes and talk about temperature-mass (Kkg).
Re:Ask HN: What tone to use in code review suggestions? on Monday June 27, 2022 @12:44PM (#31897159)
Obviously tone is hard in text, and it's worse in multilingual teams. What's been very effective for my current team is adding explicit context as a comment prefix with standardised terms: - Nit for "it doesn't actually matter" - Suggestion for "this approach might be better, what do you think?" - Question for "help me understand this" - Requested Change for "this is actually a blocker"

We include this expectation in our working agreement, stick to it rigorously for reviews where reviewer and reviewee haven't established a strong rapport yet, and use it as appropriate beyond that. So far we've had no confusion about tone in reviews.