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adamjb commented on Los Angeles ends strange rite of passage with new fridge law nytimes.com/2026/01/01/re... · Posted by u/mikhael

stevage · 2 months ago

It's interesting to me how norms and expectations about what is provided with a rental apartment vary so widely around the world:

- USA: fridge, washing machine plus the below:

- Australia: oven/stove, kitchen cabinets, overhead lights, toilet seat, shower curtain, curtains...

- France: absolutely fricking nothing. Bare walls. You may have to install cupboards for your kitchen. Instead of overhead lights there will probably be just wires hanging out of the ceiling. If you're moving to the country for a year or so it sucks...

adamjb · 2 months ago

It's interesting how there's a negative correlation between tenant's rights and how furnished a rental is expected to be.

adamjb commented on Axial twist theory en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axi... · Posted by u/lordnacho

OhMeadhbh · 6 months ago

When I see a seemingly "random" post on HN I always wonder if someone happened across some random bit of info and thought it so interesting they just had to share, or if there's some other bit of related news I haven't heard about. Did we just discover space starfish on Mars? I'm guessing I would have heard about that. Or did someone post a paper challenging axial twist orthodoxy? Guess I can google that.

But there's a delightful span between seeing someone post something on HN unrelated to AI, Cryptocurrencies or startups selling VS-Code extensions and the moment when I satisfy myself something outlandish (like space starfish) hasn't happened. During that time, all things are plausible.

[Edit. Which is not to say I disparage or discourage posting cool things you've found on the net. That's kind of what many of us are here for.]

adamjb · 6 months ago

>axial twist orthodoxy

My impression is that this isn't exactly settled science. If you look in the history for the article you can see that it's mainly written by the lead author of the main citations. He also did the cute illustrations that everyone loves

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Marci68

adamjb commented on The design philosophy of Great Tables posit-dev.github.io/great... · Posted by u/randyzwitch

ewuhic · 2 years ago

There was some design blog post several years ago, maybe not even surfaced on HN:

Creating beautiful tables both UI and UX wise, with some features being e.g dropping separator between columns (row?), doing some visual accents, etc.

And yes, the most distinguished feature was that the tables weren't looking like your busy PowerPoint non-tech organisation stuff, they were very modern yet simple.

I don't remember the specifics, but I was really impressed and regret not bookmarking the article.

Does anyone know of the article in question, and maybe could share the link?

adamjb · 2 years ago

Is it this, from Matthew Butterick?

https://practicaltypography.com/grids-of-numbers.html

adamjb commented on What flying was like fifty years ago airfactsjournal.com/2024/... · Posted by u/hggh

munchler · 2 years ago

There’s a scene at the end of the movie Fletch (1985) where Chevy Chase uses a plane ticket made out in another person’s name, and no one blinks an eye.

adamjb · 2 years ago

No one checks names on Aussie domestic flights to this day

adamjb commented on Critical Gitlab vulnerability exposes 2FA-less users to account takeovers theregister.com/2024/01/1... · Posted by u/Brajeshwar

nemoniac · 2 years ago

Am I missing something or does the security release recommend updating to the latest version without saying what that latest version is (at time of writing)?

Come to think of it, how can you find what version of Gitlab is being run? (through the web interface on a CE instance)

adamjb · 2 years ago

>how can you find what version of Gitlab is being run? (through the web interface on a CE instance)

It's up the top at gitlab.example.com/help

adamjb commented on Lionel Messi Is Impossible (2014) fivethirtyeight.com/featu... · Posted by u/wallflower

walthamstow · 3 years ago

They are outliers because it's a brand new phenomenon. This generation has the first sportsmen to push 40 in a lot of sports, beit Federer, James Anderson, Brady, Ibrahimovic. It will become quite common as time goes on I expect.

p.s. Schumacher drove a car, so I'm not sure he is a fair comparison to physical sportsmen

adamjb · 3 years ago

One of the reasons Schumacher was able to dominate was that he was one of the first F1 drivers to train for it as a physical sport.

adamjb commented on High Court of Australia rules hyperlinking is not publishing [pdf] eresources.hcourt.gov.au/... · Posted by u/caf

d0mine · 4 years ago

if providing a link by google to an article is not publishing then why do you think providing e.g., a hyperlink to a magnet link by a torrent search engine becomes publishing of a copyrighted material?

(torrent search engine shows links to a link to a "link" to a material)

adamjb · 4 years ago

The laws in Australia refer to "facilitating" copyright infringement. Whether or not a torrent website is a publisher is entirely immaterial

adamjb commented on Ask HN: Why did smartphones become a single point of failure? · Posted by u/neverminder

dsr_ · 4 years ago

Go through the whole list and figure out which of these services really requires your phone, and which you have set up on your phone because that seemed the easiest path.

Tell your workplace you're about to switch from carrying a phone to a landline: what is their fallback option? (It's about 50/50 whether they have one, but they definitely should.)

adamjb · 4 years ago

My workplace's solution was to simply turn off 2FA for my account