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Oof. I thought it was surprising to see 6 out already. . .

Andrew Jackson is on the $20 bill.

I was under the impression it was because the city finally collected on it, but I might be wrong.

There are way more than 5 aces, so I'm not sure where that number comes from, but he certainly does have a pretty insane record. Especially impressive given that Iranian F-14 pilots at the time couldn't get more Phoenix missiles from America due to sanctions (I believe), so there was heavy emphasis on trying to win engagements without using them.

I wouldn't say we're seeing the first few waves now - MAG and Metal Gear Online were circa 2008-ish, right?

Same thing happens to me, same extensions involved, mostly browse incognito. I bet your suspicion is spot on.

Honestly, without a way to search content and not just people/hashtags, there isn't an organic way for me to discover people talking about what I'm interested in, so Mastodon just isn't useful out of the gate. It relies on finding a niche community you're interested in out of the gate, and if I wanted to go that route I'd just use Reddit.

"Issues: 1"

Other coverage that made it to the top of HN a few days ago: US asks allies to drop Huawei - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18513249

This is making a lot of assumptions about GP's reasons. They should probably have explained in the first place, but give them the chance to before suggesting they're angry about something they never brought up, please.

I generally find them easier to manipulate, which is a frequent use for measuring distance. Honestly, I think the big thing hampering metric adoption is that no one uses decimeters. Kilometers are useful for trip distances, centimeters/millimeters are useful for small/precise measurements, but meters are deeply unuseful (for the same reasons you rarely see things measured in yards).

1/10th of a meter gets you a lot of the same usability as a foot measurement, but now adding centimeters onto that is more straightforward. A lot easier to calculate for measuring space for furniture, height, etc. . .

Tom Francis (the heat sig developer) also made Gunpoint, which while not a rogue like is still a fantastic little game (and has a bunch of user built levels). Would highly recommend.

Ah, thank you for explaining.

Let me rephrase. I don't have much skin in erubin and oldandtired's particular talking points on this post in HN. Happy?

This might be a bit obtuse of me to say, but:

This has everything to do with Edge, which is purposely configured to use a search engine that creates a liability for users.

You could say the exact same thing about Chrome and not be lying.

(The obtuseness being likening Google tracking to malware ads)

The argument to ditch Windows felt kind of shoehorned in.

If Bing is returning malicious search results, that's a reason to stop using the search engine, _not the whole OS_. The October update fiasco is a reason to stop using Windows. These are separate issues in separate projects made by separate teams, happening at separate times.

The implication is that everything MSoft touches is insecure or otherwise out to get me is weakly supported. It may or may not be true, but a quick toss in of one data point about how Windows is bad and oh by the way Ubuntu is better isn't convincing.

Are. . .you aware of some relationship between the two? I don't think I've ever heard of them being linked.

To be fair, "Google" is pretty silly sounding too, in a vacuum. . .But yes, DDG isn't a great name, and it put me off using it in college.

Don't have much skin in this argument, but this would convince absolutely nobody not already aligned with those beliefs. . .which was GP's point in the first place.

I'm the same way. I've gotten used to using a Mac for work; there are the few things I need to know how to run, and I've more or less figured those out. Even after that, though, I was utterly useless last week trying to send an email for my mom on her iPhone.

Eh. . .I'm not against your points, but I think your analogy is off. It seems more like your CTO is saying "There's this bug in a library we use to improve this part of the system - if no one comes up with fix in the next year or so, I'm just gonna remove that lib and we can handle it's functions ourselves."

I might still disagree with that, but it wouldn't make me "seriously doubt their leadership".

Surely.

Not so much "easy" as "obvious".

"Less than 1" != 1. The bug affected roughly 3.3 million at most. It is annoying that they don't give more precise number, but I doubt most people would care.

No way! I was so sure those were a Kojima-ism

"The best of both worlds"

That got me.

Fair

"Javascript is literally killing the Earth" might be the most HN comment I've ever read

Ahahahaha

This is the confusing part for me, yes. Javascript is fine and well, but C# seems the better choice in general here.