Normille

  >Most tech stories are submitted from different sources. Each time there is a big new, there are like 10 or 20 newspapers/blogs/tech-sites that write a coverage.

I just find it really irritating. It's little different from spam, in my opinion and I wish people would have the courtesy towards other HN users to spend a few seconds checking if a story has already been submitted before mashing the Submit button themselves. In some cases people are still re-submitting major tech stories days after they happened.

A classic example was Musk's take over of Twitter. I remember there were 30+ submissions of that story alone, when I counted part way through the day it hppened and people were still submitting it a couple of days later. That's just downright spamming, in my book. Who the hell can frequent HN and think that, 3 days after the event, no-one will yet have shared with the rest of us the biggest tech news story of the year?

As I always say, when getting on my soapbox about this: Just try spending a few days using HN, with the 'Newest' section as your landing page and you'll soon see how much of a problem this is:

https://news.ycombinator.com/newest

  >Yes. The former submission got enough attention, so it shouldn't be submitted for a year.

But, if the system is stopping you submitting the same URL again, why not why not just put a meaningless query string on the URL so it's different from last time. eg:

https://www.nlpdemystified.org/?blah

BTW. I don't know if that will work. Just a thought.

And yes, I know that, strictly speaking 'Telegram != social media'. But, with Telegram Channels, it does kind of cross over into the 'Discordy' end of social media.

  >With Telegram I can see at least appeal in using it as news source, chat room or for bots, but what offers Signal besides hype about The Current Thing?...

It also has some infuriatingly shite 'features' such as the fact that one party in a conversation can delete messages from the other party's device and [as is oft-mentioned] the fact that comms are not E2E encrypted by default. But, on the whole, I reckon it's the best all-round messenger app out there. Just so long as you're not under any illusion that your comms are in any way secure.

  >Use Matrix clients (Element, Fluffy chat) or Session, Briar...

  >If you think that nobody would be fired for refusing to work in unsafe conditions and nobody would be fired for not drinking, you're still agreeing that the situations are similar...

And if, instead of staggering out the pub and going on his arse, this eejit and his pissed-up mates had decided to drunkenly kick the crap out of some innocent passer-by, that would have been excusable too, because he only joined in to avoid losing 'social credit' with his workmates?

Because if you provided these, the browser would know how much space to leave for the image to occupy after it had downloaded [this was back in the dial-up modem days. So images usually loaded gradually after the rest of the page] and so the layout of the page would not change. Conversely, if you didn't provide 'width' and 'height' attributes, the browser would only leave a default small icon sized space for the image and then you'd have the page content move and shuffle about as each image downloaded and the rest of the page content got elbowed out of the way, to accommodate it.

It's funny how such basic concepts of usability seem to have fallen by the wayside in our new modern Web3 [or whatever version buzzword we're on now] in favour of moving content, modal overlays and the like. And, since so many sites these days just aggregate content from countless other external sources, even that basic notion of pre-defining your image sizes is often neglected too.

  >I always dislike this line of argument, it feels unproductive.

For starters; No-one would be sacked for refusing to work in conditions which contravened H&S regs --and, if they were, they'd easily win a case for unfair dismissal.

And, in the other situation; joining in with the company drinking games is not part of anyone's job description. So, likewise, anyone dismissed for that 'failing' would have a nailed on 'unfair dismissal' case. Besides. Have you never worked anywhere with muslim colleagues or teetotal ones? I have and quite often they'd come to the pub on a works piss-up for the social element. But stick to alcohol free drinks all night. I never saw anyone trying to force them into having a pint or threatening them with dismissal if they didn't. It's laughably ludicrous.

No. The case I quoted is just another incidence of people failing to take responisibility for their own actions and seeking to excuse their own stupid and quite often horrific criminal behaviour by saying they were only going along with the crowd.

  >An auditor at PricewaterhouseCoopers in England sued the company over severe injuries he sustained at a work event that “made a competitive virtue” of “excessive” drinking, in a lawsuit filed in London’s High Court this year. Michael Brockie fell down in the street, went into a coma and later had part of his skull removed after participating in the company event

But much better [and more profitable] to fail to take responsibility for your own actions, do something really stupid, fuck yourself up... and then cast around for someone to sue.

  >The whole point of dealing with climate change and pollution is that we all have to make some compromises...

Oh, sorry. Wrong room. I thought this was the Miss World auditions

Living in a snivelling vassal state is so embarrassing. The more so when Brexit voting fuckwitts bleat about 'taking back control'.

  >Yes, the US prioritizes itself over other countries, as every country does. 

Oh. That wasn't what you meant by 'as every country does'?

I know they can pledge amongst themselves to not buy Russian oil for more than $XX a barrel. But how does that stop Russia from saying 'OK then. We'll sell it to someone else who WILL pay what we want'. It's not like there aren't plenty of other markets for oil, outside of EU/USA.

I know the article mentions that the shipping & insurance companies, which are mostly based in Europe, could refuse to ship or insure cargos of Russian oil, unless it was being sold at below a western imposed cap. But, again, it seems a bit odd that there aren't lots of other shipping & insurance companies outside of EU/USA which would be more than happy to scoop up some nice fat juicy contracts or insurance premiums for shipping & insuring cargoes of Russian oil.

  >You're basically telling countries "If you try to prepare for war, we'll attack you. The best thing to do is be as unprepared as possible with as few allies" 

  >The fact is, if you look at it soberly, the country that is most profiting from this war is the U.S. because they are selling more gas and at higher prices, and because they are selling more weapons,” one senior official told POLITICO.

Normille. Seven months ago[0]...

  >The US will be rubbing its hands with glee. They must have thought all their Christmases had come at once, when Russia invaded Ukraine

  * Russia ostracised by Europe

  * More US arms sales to Europe

  * More US gas sales to Europe

  * More European acolytes to join their US-led military bloc

  The only difficult part must be keeping a straight face while pretending to be outraged by it all.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31159748#31160290

  >because its surrounded by water??

Mind you, I've never fond these kind of things to be very effective. Bellingcat has a selection of similar tools and the results are always pretty unreliable:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/18rtqh8EG2q1xBo2cLNyh...

It's like English, Jim. But not as we know it.

Agree about the prices though. Which is why you should always use a site like camelcamelcamel.com to see just how much of a 'bargain' those Black Friday deals really are.