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Readit Newsplibither8 commented on WhatsApp Outage downdetector.in/status/wh... · Posted by u/__debugger__
plibither8 commented on Veritasium: The SAT Question Everyone Got Wrong [video] youtube.com/watch?v=FUHkT... · Posted by u/goplayoutside
I think you are looking for the word “cromulent”.
Did you just learn this word too from another recent thread on HN? I did, haha!
> this isn't targeting Firefox/Safari/etc.
> rather it is using the User Agent
This is literally the most common method of targeting browsers.
You're getting downvoted, but I was thinking the same thing. Could someone explain why that might not be the case?
plibither8 commented on datetime.utcnow() is now deprecated blog.miguelgrinberg.com/p... · Posted by u/Brajeshwar
I suspect a lot of financial data code is going to break. I've worked on a number of codebases where the explicit instructions were "everything is UTC, all the time", and enforced at the entry edges of the code. Bringing in timezones was a definite NO for reasons of the unholy mess this would inevitably create:
* India has half-hour timezones
* Countries change their DST rules all the time.
* Conversion between timezones is an utter mess.
As Wes McKinney once said about python datetime: "Welcome to Hell"[0]
> India has half-hour timezones
If that's messy, consider Nepal's timezone that's on the 45-minute mark (UTC+5:45).
Whatever happened to their Android plans?
plibither8 commented on Cockpit: Web-based graphical interface for servers cockpit-project.org/... · Posted by u/thunderbong
Have you looked into netdata? It can do this and much more, it’s very flexible. No relation, just a big fan!
Yes, netdata FTW! You might need to perform some manual configuration to enable sensor data collection though, like installing `lm-sensors`.
plibither8 commented on Signtime.apple: One-on-one sign language interpreting by Apple signtime.apple/applecare/... · Posted by u/popcalc
It’s already pretty easy for anyone to talk to an human at Apple tbh, be it by phone or by going to a physical store, their support is already really accessible for everyone.
Here if I understand you don’t get access to support but to an interpreter who will call the support for you. It’s of no interest if you don’t know ASL
> Here if I understand you don’t get access to support but to an interpreter who will call the support for you. It’s of no interest if you don’t know ASL
I might receive some slack here, but I gave it a try (I don't know ASL). Within 5 seconds of clicking the button, I was connected to a live human, with both my video and sound, as well as the other person's, turned on (although I did have the ability to switch them off). There was no intermediate step to filter out spam calls. I did cut the call quickly though to avoid wasting their time!
plibither8 commented on Signtime.apple: One-on-one sign language interpreting by Apple signtime.apple/applecare/... · Posted by u/popcalc
In an era where having customer support at all is not a given, paying real human beings to offer customer support through ASL is pretty next level.
Agreed! However, I also wonder what their ratio of spam vs. actual ASL-requiring-customer calls is. Since it's so easy and quick to connect to a real human with comolete audio and video enabled on both ends, won't it be prone to abuse?
The more such a service gets attention from regular media (instead of the niche, targeted audience it aims to serve), I fear it'll be another case of "why we can't have good things".