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below43 commented on Half million 'Words with Spaces' missing from dictionaries   linguabase.org/words-with... · Posted by u/gligierko
quesera · 17 days ago
OK. But is the meaning any less literally-obvious than "grocery bills" or "electricity bills"?

Maybe you don't have "hospital bills". I don't have "landscaping bills", but I know exactly what they are.

below43 · 17 days ago
Sure, but my main intent was to raise the question as to why it was singled out in the article/blog post as something that needs to be in the dictionary.

As you've pointed out, the word "bills" clarifies what it is. I don't see why every combination needs to be in a dictionary. The list would be incredibly long, eg. "phone bills" or "power bills", etc.

below43 commented on Half million 'Words with Spaces' missing from dictionaries   linguabase.org/words-with... · Posted by u/gligierko
tialaramex · 17 days ago
Hospital bills feels like a pretty ordinary compound to me - not like "good morning" or "ginger ale" where you can't just use what you know about the two words to figure out what the compound must mean.

Some cases are basically impossible "Crash blossoms" you don't stand any chance without knowing why we call them that

Some are middling difficult, "Home Secretary" requires that you know every meaning for the two words and then you happen to pick the correct obscure meaning, a "Secretary" could be in charge, and "Home" could mean the entire country as distinct from everywhere else.

But "Hospital bills" doesn't seem even marginally difficult

below43 · 17 days ago
In most English speaking countries it's a far from common phrase (ie. it's very USA-centric).
below43 commented on Half million 'Words with Spaces' missing from dictionaries   linguabase.org/words-with... · Posted by u/gligierko
below43 · 17 days ago
“Hospital bills”. That’s very country specific. Also, that’s two words.
below43 commented on Show HN: Git uncommit – reset unpushed, committed changes   github.com/below43/git-un... · Posted by u/below43
myst · 20 days ago
You can do an alias.
below43 · 20 days ago
Good point. TIL :)

git config --global alias.uncommit 'reset --soft HEAD~1'

below43 commented on I made my own Git   tonystr.net/blog/git_immi... · Posted by u/TonyStr
nerdponx · a month ago
Time to start including deliberate bugs. The correct version is in a private repository.
below43 · a month ago
They used to do this with maps - eg. fake islands - to pick up when they were copied.
below43 commented on The Myth of the ThinkPad   innovintageblog.wordpress... · Posted by u/volemo
below43 · 2 months ago
This is ridiculous. High end second hand Thinkpads are much better and robust in my experience than new Lenovo laptops. Much better build quality.
below43 commented on The struggle of resizing windows on macOS Tahoe   noheger.at/blog/2026/01/1... · Posted by u/happosai
Wyverald · 2 months ago
That was a sensible chuckle indeed... but then it also made me realize that grabbing things IRL _moves_ them, not _resizes_ them. Nothing IRL really resizes.

So while it makes a lot of sense to grab inside the object to move it, IMO it actually makes less sense to grab _inside_ the object to resize it. (Imagine the reverse argument -- IRL you can actually grab the middle of the plate to move it, but if grabbing the middle of the window resized it, that would also be very bad.)

I've been trained to grab the edge to resize windows. So I wouldn't try to reach so far inside the rounded rectangle as OP, although it doesn't invalidate their entire argument.

below43 · 2 months ago
We hold the edges of things to pull to expand them. Sliding doors, table cloths etc.
below43 commented on Growing up in “404 Not Found”: China's nuclear city in the Gobi Desert   substack.com/inbox/post/1... · Posted by u/Vincent_Yan404
Vincent_Yan404 · 2 months ago
That’s so kind of you!

I did write and publish this story in Chinese first. You don't need an AI translation for them; the original text exists and has been quite popular in the Chinese corner of the internet.You can search for it using the title:《我在404长大》

below43 · 2 months ago
Thanks. It's interesting to compare the original HN article with the browser-translated story (from https://news.qq.com/rain/a/20240110A03FKJ00).

I definitely appreciate the style of the HN English article, but I think the browser-translated version possibly gives a bit more context to some of the story.

e.g. This is the English version "We would clutch candy wrappers in our hands, giggling endlessly. The teacher would scold us for disturbing the nap, but we Hid behind our parents, still laughing."

This is the browser-translated version: "I kept giggling when I saw her, and she giggled too, and we kept laughing with small sugar paper during our lunch break. When my parents came to pick us up, the teacher criticized us for being undisciplined, and we still hid behind our parents and giggled."

below43 commented on Show HN: Minimalist editor that lives in browser, stores everything in the URL   github.com/antonmedv/text... · Posted by u/medv
below43 · 2 months ago
Like many others in the replies, I too built something similar. I built a PWA that lets you share files via a URL. https://urlfile.app

It also has a note/plain text sharing option.

u/below43

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