Hacker News: meshaneian

New comment by meshaneian in "Show HN: I made a website to find best bus seat to avoid the sun while traveling"

meshaneian — Wed, 17 Jan 2024 23:26:36 +0000

This sounds particularly useful to me. As a shut-in. Not a vampire.

New comment by meshaneian in "FindMyCat – Open-Source Pet Tracker"

meshaneian — Sat, 16 Sep 2023 02:32:22 +0000

There is a much larger market for this tech - parents. Today's world is so crowded, kids or parents can be separated by less than 20 feet and devolve into panic. Give them each a way to know they're safe and can be found. You're already awesome, wish more people could share like you have, magnificent designs!

New comment by meshaneian in "Terrible real estate agent photographs"

meshaneian — Fri, 30 Jun 2023 22:59:55 +0000

How did they not say "fire sale"??

New comment by meshaneian in "The .zip TLD sucks"

meshaneian — Sat, 13 May 2023 01:20:00 +0000

And this is why https://www.floppydisk.com/ is still doing well.

New comment by meshaneian in "Tell HN: iOS lets carriers add WiFi networks that you can’t stop from joining"

meshaneian — Wed, 05 Apr 2023 04:15:53 +0000

R for reboot /s

New comment by meshaneian in "How to be a -10x Engineer"

meshaneian — Tue, 04 Apr 2023 21:06:57 +0000

"The engineer(s) that wrote the offensive code were almost certainly not idiots."

Bold statement, but closer to accurate than the first impression.

New comment by meshaneian in "Lego violates GPL by keep Blender-based BrickLink Studio source closed (2021)"

meshaneian — Fri, 17 Mar 2023 00:40:03 +0000

> kgeist 8 hours ago > Reminds me of "trap streets" on maps: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trap_street

New comment by meshaneian in "Gmail 2FA causes the homeless to permanently lose access 3 times a year"

meshaneian — Sat, 08 Oct 2022 02:59:14 +0000

Also they're frequently arrested, and if their "belongings" are unsafe (biologically contaminated, disgusting) they'll be discarded or ignored by police, if the person hasn't seen the police coming and thrown their belongings aside in the hopes of coming back for them later. Sad all around.

New comment by meshaneian in "Turns are better than radians"

meshaneian — Mon, 26 Sep 2022 19:39:54 +0000

TIL that the uncanny valley can apply to mathematics.

New comment by meshaneian in "Take more screenshots"

meshaneian — Mon, 25 Jul 2022 11:22:05 +0000

How do you setup OBS to keep the recording sizes tolerable?

I've used this before on engineering grade machines, but it doesn't do so well on "everything is in the cloud so you can use a word processor quality" laptop, any advice?

New comment by meshaneian in "Copilot sells code other people wrote"

meshaneian — Thu, 23 Jun 2022 19:25:25 +0000

They might argue that a snippet isn't a "substantial portion" of "the Software", and they're only charging for the service not the content - regardless, I don't like it, this is exactly what certain licenses attempt to prevent.

New comment by meshaneian in "The computers are fast, but you don't know it"

meshaneian — Fri, 17 Jun 2022 17:25:04 +0000

Just like freeways - add more traffic lanes, get more traffic.

New comment by meshaneian in "Markdoc: Stripe's Markdown-based authoring framework"

meshaneian — Wed, 11 May 2022 22:49:16 +0000

Solid competitor to https://hackmd.io/ (codimd on github)

New comment by meshaneian in "Including “And. And. And. And. And.” in a Google doc causes it to crash"

meshaneian — Fri, 06 May 2022 02:06:04 +0000

Why not PasswordPassword1?

New comment by meshaneian in "FTC sues Intuit for its deceptive TurboTax “free” filing campaign"

meshaneian — Wed, 30 Mar 2022 02:24:49 +0000

I like this argument more knowing it circles back to the "guess what the IRS knows" game earlier. :)

New comment by meshaneian in "Thousands of Mazdas in the Seattle area are stuck on a single FM radio station"

meshaneian — Wed, 09 Feb 2022 16:53:40 +0000

Risk was already there. Have you seen the way interns drive?

New comment by meshaneian in "Google Drive flags file only containing “1” for copyright infringement"

meshaneian — Mon, 24 Jan 2022 22:41:08 +0000

I believe 0 and 1 belong in the public domain, at least under US copyright law - there appears to be a significant amount of prior art.

New comment by meshaneian in "Don't Waste the Good Days"

meshaneian — Sat, 01 Jan 2022 14:01:27 +0000

Figs are disgusting. Now I'll try and visualize desirable kinds of things as fig trees, making it easier to quickly pass them up and go for something I'd want more. Thanks.

New comment by meshaneian in "Tell HN: AWS appears to be down again"

meshaneian — Wed, 22 Dec 2021 15:46:34 +0000

As a pragmatic AWS fan, +1 this. Disposable distributed hybrid multi-cloud architecture FTW.

New comment by meshaneian in "“Click to subscribe, call to cancel” is illegal, FTC says"

meshaneian — Wed, 17 Nov 2021 15:30:57 +0000

In general "should" is a recommendation, not a requirement.

    "shall" indicates a requirement
    "should" indicates a recommendation
    "may" is used to indicate that something is permitted
    "can" is used to indicate that something is possible, for example, that an organization or individual is able to do something

https://www.iso.org/foreword-supplementary-information.html

https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2119.txt

Additionally, your suggestion of "must" has valid reasons for being preferred in contracts over "shall":

https://www.plainlanguage.gov/guidelines/conversational/shal...