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From your link

> Smol (often paired with lorge or bean), is an Internet slang term used to describe any animal, character, or object that is considered very tiny and cute

So how's that different?

> Using such quirky in group markers like that can limit the audience or give some potential readers a bad impression from the readers opinion on such a group.

Good, I think the kind of people who would feel the use of "smol" impacts their enjoyment of this kind of project are not really the target audience anyway.

Uh? They're the second group they talk about, just after the Romanians.

> In EU

Where, exactly?

> Union fees are usually exempt from tax

What do you mean? You pay taxes on other membership fees?

Discussion from yesterday

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48663861

Oh, there's plenty!

Off of the top of my web history

https://webring.theoldnet.com/

https://0uts1de.hisvirusness.com/

And of course a list of webrings

https://petrapixel.neocities.org/coding/webring-list

I'm using Waterfox on desktop at the moment, but I really wish Mozilla would get their act back together and make all the forks unnecessary. I'm not saying they need to die: I only hope one day they aren't needed anymore.

Also, I'm afraid that's not sustainable in the long run. How long before Mozilla makes a change so big to introduce some nasty feature that it becomes impossible for forks to stay up to date with upstream? Do they really have the resources necessary to maintain an actual fork and not just a customized version?

I don't know, but maybe spending 15 years working on something that you felt was not only a job but also in part a mission shapes a lot of you as a person and you want to express your feelings about that huge part of your life.

As the OP says, the point is not that they needed unpaid work, if that's what you mean. The point is that volunteers shaped what Firefox, MDN, Thunderbird, Mozilla itself were.

Some 10 years ago I was a Mozilla volunteer. I mainly worked on MDN, to the point of becoming a so-called "topic driver" for the glossary. Some of the work I did landed in the citations of a couple of papers about web technology. They flew me a whole week to Vancouver for an event where employees and volunteers worked together in the same room and they even made me (and the other volunteers ) attend a sort-of-corporate meeting where they sort-of fought about something (can't even remember what it was).

I'm telling you this to highlight that volunteers where a huge part of Mozilla.

But on the last day they announced that they were moving the day-to-day conversations from IRC (an open protocol) to Yahoo Messenger (a closed protocol). I felt sort of betrayed in that moment: the company that was all about openness and to which I dedicated countless hours doing unpaid work for and even more years evangelizing for was imposing its volunteers and employees used a proprietary app to coordinate. That didn't sit well with me. At all. I basically lost interest.

This was in 2015. Last I heard MDN introduced ads (I wouldn't know, uBlock is pretty effective) and is not showing contributors to a page on the page itself anymore.

So yeah, the part of OP saying how Mozilla managed to piss volunteers resonated pretty hard with me.

It's probably the C++ version of the tired EnterpriseBuilderPatternWhateverFactory jokes about java verbosity.

If moderation is the problem maybe only allow downvoting? Of course that may bring to the surface a different set of problems (no solution is without drawbacks), but it removes the "numbers go up" incentives.

AFAIU you're presented with the titles of two porn videos and have to guess the one with the most likes

>It's still among my favorite music to listen to while coding

In that case you may want to try the Dark Ambient genre in general. Lots of similar vibes.

Says who? I, for one, don't really like the idea of "everything is http(s)".

After all, dissatisfaction with the status quo is the reasons this space (gopher, gemini, etc.) even exists. If, like you say, nobody wanted this we wouldn't be here discussing it.

Uhm... My browser is redirected to https://usborne.com/it/books/computer-and-coding-books which 404s.

I hope you don't take this question the wrong way: why is R7RS large taking so long? Is there a consensus problem or just a lack of resources? If it's the latter, is there any way a random scheme dabbler can help?

I'm afraid that's just our bubble. If I asked my Mac- and iPad- using parents who Steve Jobs was they'd know it was the Apple guy, but if I asked if they've ever heard of NeXT they wouldn't have the foggiest idea.

> Notable shoutout, the GNOME open/save dialogs are the absolute worst. I wish distros wouldn't default to it.

I'll never understand who in their right mind would think that in a save dialog, if I start typing, I mean to search for something instead of trying to change the name of the file. It's really baffling.

If you want a film version that is more faithful to the original book, I suggest you watch the 2019 Garrone movie [0]. There's Benigni in It, but this time he plays Geppetto and he's not as insufferable as he can be. And the rest of the cast is very good too (many beloved comedians including the late Gigi Proietti).

I have no idea if this stayed only in Italy or if it has been translated to other languages.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinocchio_(2019_film)

I'm curious: why is hacker news non-GDPR-compliant?

You should probably read it as "Amazon can shut down your kindle but not your bookshelf"

I, for one, do like it. I usually prefer lighter themes, but this one would be more than ok for me.

Looks like it's back now.

This really sucks.

I can see why they may not want to support such a niche feature but on the other hand I can't help feeling the hostility of this move.

Do yourself a favor, if you haven't yet: go in the instructions for the games you like and find out the original game's name (for example' "Light Up" is actually called Akari), go online and find hand-crafted puzzles for that game. I love that Simon Tatham's Puzzles exists, but nothing beats hand-crafted puzzles made by good designers. There's a sense of purpose in the order you discover the solution and some "eureka!" moments that randomly generated puzzles will never give you!

> (Does someone sell "decade" dice, which faces say: 10, 20, 300, ..., 90 and 100?)

Yes, they do. I used to use them for this exact purpose.

Joking aside, is throwing 2d10 and using one for tens and one for units different from throwing 1d100?

> the only thing I regularly mix up is the syntax for links. I frequently reverse the [] and ()

I remember it as passing parameters to a function that requires an URL as an argument. Maybe it's not the most straightforward way, but it works for me

Unless you mean retrocompatibility, no it's not that obvious to me.