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Re:That's a Lot of YAML on Friday August 28, 2026 @05:18AM (#49476252)
Put quotes around your strings an you'll be mostly fine.
Re:Pocketbase – open-source realtime back end in 1 file on Friday November 28, 2025 @05:48AM (#46077464)
Trailbase won my heart by not leaving out curl-commands in their examples :)
Re:Decibels Are Ridiculous on Thursday May 22, 2025 @12:38PM (#44063753)
oh sorry; thats the comments
Re:Decibels Are Ridiculous on Thursday May 22, 2025 @08:57AM (#44061601)
I'll summarize: It's annoying that dB is often used as a physical unit without the necessary suffix. It's annoying that the suffix seems quite random for most units It's annoying that the factor for power differs from the factor for voltage, etc. It's slightly annoying that it's usually decibel instead of Bel.

However, we all agree that dBs are really useful.

Re:Ask HN: Should you reply STOP to unwanted texts? on Tuesday October 01, 2024 @09:30AM (#41708148)
Probably a Cisco engineer who built that
Re:My favorite 1980's Canadian TV show: Bits and Bytes on Saturday June 08, 2024 @02:48PM (#40619480)
And they (well, one of them) are still active https://www.youtube.com/@computerclubzwei
Re:Dear Paul Graham, there is no cookie banner law on Monday March 18, 2024 @08:27AM (#39743352)
In this logic it is totally unfair that I am not allowed sell drugs while I could make a lot of revenue from it.
Re:Five tube stations now have new circular tube maps on Friday February 02, 2024 @04:08AM (#39226705)
Already hate it.
Re:Apple Vision Pro: Apple’s first spatial computer on Monday June 05, 2023 @04:33PM (#36203183)
Well, we have seen something like this failing about six years ago. Let's see whether - there is a new killer-use-case or - technology has advanced enough to make it less cumbersome or - Apple can generate enough hype around it to make it work on its own.
Re:Writing one sentence per line on Monday June 20, 2022 @07:51AM (#31809168)
Looks good - but I do not agree with

> 3. A semantic line break SHOULD NOT alter the intended meaning of the text.

That should be #1 MUST NOT

Re:Writing one sentence per line on Monday June 20, 2022 @07:47AM (#31809146)
I completely agree. Using one line per sentence (and soemtime more lines when the sentence is longer) makes it way easier to structure the text. Markdown and are perfectly able to fit the text to the device you are reading on. It also makes version control and diffs more usable.

However, I can also agree that this style might be not suitable for non-technical writing.

If you are impressed by this, wait until you see Colin Powell's Iraq slides
Re:Operations is not Developer IT on Friday September 03, 2021 @08:19AM (#28403168)
I sent a link to that post to a senior developer with similar habits. He answered: "didn't read, don't understand english."
Re:Nordigen: API aggregator to European banks on Monday August 02, 2021 @08:49AM (#28035819)
Oh, I totally agree (started my carreer in a company that still used VSE/ESA and CICS and sometimes dream about ASRAs). However, they had to implement modern api-stuff with PSD2 and then they made it strictly b2b-only :-(
Re:Nordigen: API aggregator to European banks on Monday August 02, 2021 @08:17AM (#28035597)
It is rally terrible that such a service is actually necessary... PSD2 was a chance to create a standard api for everyone including customers. I still cannot understand how they managed to f it up by limiting access to "trusted companies"