Hacker News: turtledove

New comment by turtledove in "Dropbox deletes Rick and Morty creators account for secret TOS violation"

turtledove — Thu, 09 Jun 2022 14:38:38 +0000

Would you say that the install and maintenance load for both systems (Dropbox vs packages containers) is the same?

Like, I'm confident my tech illiterate parents could get drop box running. Ease of use and UX are features.

I'm not saying the self hosted stack is bad, and in fact it's probably better in many ways. But it doesn't have the same feature set if you consider usability a feature, imo.

New comment by turtledove in "Dropbox deletes Rick and Morty creators account for secret TOS violation"

turtledove — Thu, 09 Jun 2022 14:31:28 +0000

Sorry, "would be super useful" be "would have helped me".

Maybe those have different meanings to you? They mean more or less the same to me?

New comment by turtledove in "Dropbox deletes Rick and Morty creators account for secret TOS violation"

turtledove — Thu, 09 Jun 2022 14:29:40 +0000

Because they have context that I don't? Because they quickly scan down to other comments and see the people explaining the joke?

And not everyone else "got the joke". I'd assume many folks didn't get it, but didn't post.

New comment by turtledove in "Dropbox deletes Rick and Morty creators account for secret TOS violation"

turtledove — Thu, 09 Jun 2022 14:26:27 +0000

Asking a non technical person to run and maintain docker containers is absurd.

New comment by turtledove in "Dropbox deletes Rick and Morty creators account for secret TOS violation"

turtledove — Thu, 09 Jun 2022 14:20:10 +0000

I can install drop box in under ten minutes. I don't have to manage security patches for all the binaries in the stack. My data is available in network edge locations close to me or the people I share it with. I can turn dollars into more storage very easily. I don't have to configure user permissions and groups in more than one place.

Also, what you described is not "sftp + cvs + vps" ;D

New comment by turtledove in "Dropbox deletes Rick and Morty creators account for secret TOS violation"

turtledove — Thu, 09 Jun 2022 14:15:52 +0000

Are those features of sftp? It cvs? Or the vps provider?

Or are you saying, "well, with a completely different stack I can get closer to feature parity"?

New comment by turtledove in "Dropbox deletes Rick and Morty creators account for secret TOS violation"

turtledove — Thu, 09 Jun 2022 14:10:42 +0000

Which definitely won't happen with a cheap VPS provider. /s

New comment by turtledove in "Dropbox deletes Rick and Morty creators account for secret TOS violation"

turtledove — Thu, 09 Jun 2022 14:07:00 +0000

People click the upvote button at a sufficient velocity.

New comment by turtledove in "Dropbox deletes Rick and Morty creators account for secret TOS violation"

turtledove — Thu, 09 Jun 2022 14:06:10 +0000

What you've described is not at all an equivalent for Dropbox. There are many, many features that your stack doesn't support.

New comment by turtledove in "Hexwords: Hex colors that are similar to words"

turtledove — Thu, 09 Jun 2022 14:02:11 +0000

Yep. But if your user base is likely to include Americans, then you might want to consider filtering them out. (As it could be shocking to read.)

Note the word consider, by the way. I'm not demanding anything here, I'm saying the author should make a deliberate choice about their inclusion rather than including them just because they were auto generated.

New comment by turtledove in "Hexwords: Hex colors that are similar to words"

turtledove — Thu, 09 Jun 2022 05:34:09 +0000

TIL. That said, I'm sure if you polled most folks these days, beaver would mean animal or women's genitalia, and not leave it to beaver.

Given the relatively common crass meaning for beaver, beaver cleaver sure sounds like a sexual innuendo to me.

New comment by turtledove in "Hexwords: Hex colors that are similar to words"

turtledove — Thu, 09 Jun 2022 05:28:02 +0000

Found a slur in the dataset, not sure if these are programmatically generated (I assume so) but may want to consider filtering those out.

New comment by turtledove in "Less parking could mean more housing"

turtledove — Thu, 09 Jun 2022 04:52:19 +0000

He was saying density is bad. I was suggesting the opposite - it affords access to many and varied services.

New comment by turtledove in "Less parking could mean more housing"

turtledove — Thu, 09 Jun 2022 04:51:18 +0000

You know you can rent cars, right? Or share a car as a community?

And yes, it does mean some limits, but they aren't as severe as many people think.

New comment by turtledove in "Less parking could mean more housing"

turtledove — Wed, 08 Jun 2022 20:54:48 +0000

I mean, sure. Some places have become urban centers recently and that's fair. But coast to coast, our biggest population centers were all established and built up before car centric planning.

I live in Seattle, for instance, which used to have a network of rails. They've all been torn out and we're just now putting them back.

New comment by turtledove in "Less parking could mean more housing"

turtledove — Wed, 08 Jun 2022 20:50:26 +0000

You can easily live in Seattle city limits without owning a car, and our transit story is pretty bad. In a city that really funded transit it would be trivial.

New comment by turtledove in "Less parking could mean more housing"

turtledove — Wed, 08 Jun 2022 20:48:20 +0000

Find a space you enjoy. I enjoy getting able to walk to the grocery store, bookshop, several cafes, many restaurants, hair salon, library, tattoo parlor, beer shop, movie theater, etc.

How many of those places can you visit without a car?

New comment by turtledove in "Less parking could mean more housing"

turtledove — Wed, 08 Jun 2022 20:45:07 +0000

The US absolutely tore up cities to make them more car friendly. Redlining and slum clearing were used as justifications to knock down entire neighborhoods to put more roads in. Most old American cities started as port towns with streetcar suburbs, and then they tore the trains out.

We don't have medieval cities, but saying cities were designed around the car is patently false.

Yes, the fifties and sixties caused huge redesigns, but we can undo those.

New comment by turtledove in "Less parking could mean more housing"

turtledove — Wed, 08 Jun 2022 20:42:26 +0000

These cities removed transit systems and housing to build roads and parking. It will take time, but doing the reverse is totally possible. Most cities were filled with streetcars and dense housing at one point.

New comment by turtledove in "Less parking could mean more housing"

turtledove — Wed, 08 Jun 2022 20:41:01 +0000

I got called a communist on hacker news for suggesting this idea. It'll be interesting to see how the comments shake out.

Less cars and less parking is a good start, but we also need to build more transit and bike infrastructure.