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Could you please consider using something other than recaptcha?

There's been several alternatives mentioned on HN over the past year. A quick search through my browser history revealed https://altcha.org/open-source-captcha/ as the most recent link I'd been to.

Just to say I have no experience of any of the "alternative" captchas, I just hate the one you're using.

Also please get your app up and running fast so we can use it for our vacation in early September, haha :-) Thank you.


Thanks for the feedback!

Unfortunately I've been challenged with the Recaptcha quite often too. That part is apparently injected by my shared hosting service (Hostinger) with no ability to turn off even when I check with their support. I hosted this at my main site (kenrick95.org)'s shared hosting service as a subdomain since I don't need to pay extra to do so.

I might consider moving it out somewhere else if I decide to maintain it separately from my main site.


I upgraded my bed linens from standard cheapest cotton to satin.

It's such a huge difference I can't quite put it into words. It's completely different. I love it - some people might not though.

It feels cool and smooth. I sleep wearing only boxer briefs, and did previously as well.

One downside is you have to wash and dry them separately - but I already did that anyway because of the load.


Sateen (satin) vs. Percale is just the weave. Some people prefer one over the other.

Check out this wirecutter podcast for WAY more information than you ever probably wanted to know about bedsheets[1]

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/reviews/wirecutter-show-p...


I did something similar and actually upgraded my boxer briefs as well to a similar material, to bamboo fiber which feels much softer than cotton.


There's nothing quite like waking up to your private parts being gently caressed by panda food.


I've been catching up on my The Daily Stoic, and still the best phrase I've read today has "your private parts being gently massaged", with "panda food"!!!


Yes exactly feels great.


Any particular brand/model? I used to buy some Calvin Klein in Modal textile, but they switched to Cotton which is not as smooth and piles over time. :(

Thanks.


I believe it was Knitlord but Bamboo Cool seems to be another good brand, at least on Amazon.


You people don't sleep naked?


I used to, then my roommate got quite a shock one day, so I don't anymore, lol.


How so? Just because a drug is illegal doesn't mean it can't improve your life. Conversely, just because a drug is legal doesn't mean it can't destroy your life.


Careful here - GP said Aarke Carbonator Pro, but luckymoose bottles do not fit the Pro. They fit the Carbonator 2 and 3.

EDIT: Actually they didn't say that, I presumed they did because the Pro model AFAIK is the only one that comes with glass bottles insted of PET. But still, make sure you check that these bottles work with your machine :-) They dont work with mine!


Man oh man, how come I didn't find this tool 6 months ago? I think you need more topics/tags on the github repo :-D

Extremely cool, I will definitely check out lnav when I get a chance. I've been battling with the big players for a few months now and their systems are just so overengineered and complex for my needs that it's silly.

I just need tail -f for 10-ish servers and desktops.

I haven't even read the project readme, but I presume lnav is exactly what I wanted. Excellent!


Interesting! I just wanted to let you know my perspective, which is probably quite unique.

I started using atom pre-1.0, a long, long time ago. I immediately jumped to vscode when I realised it existed.

The reason is a bit weird; it's the find-in-files/project (c-s-F/Ctrl+Shift+F) sidebar search/replace feature. Compared to the Atom (and from what I can see in the youtube talk, zed has the same "problem") which opens c-s-F results in the main window, vscode opens them in the sidebar and doesn't clutter the main view with it.

The reason this is powerful to me is that I code mostly in domain-specific, esoteric, private languages that have no API documentation, no stdlib or docs, and no online resources to learn from. So the only way to learn is by example, or talk to someone who knows. Learning by example is usually much faster than talking.

So what I do is any new project is just a subfolder in a workspace that contains all known code in the language and the way I find out how to do something is c-s-F.

When the results cover the main view, or even parts of it (which is also possible with atom), it's just way too intrusive. The sidebar file list is useless to me at this point - where the result comes from is irrelevant. So why not use that space?

Also of course the fact that vscodes cross-file search was blazingly fast was an upside as well (I believe they used ripgrep for that since the start?)

Another thing I want to mention is (and you highlight the keyword search in that youtube talk around 18:54) the power of the command palette search method that is available in vscode: first-letter-matching. I don't know what the proper name of it is, but essentially "ps" matches "pub struct" for example. Obviously it matches it with a lower score than something that starts with "ps", but it's very powerful for matching in the command palette.

Thanks for listening.


> I code mostly in domain-specific, esoteric, private languages, no stdlib or docs, and no online resources to learn from.

Jesus, who are you?


There are also a whole bunch of languages for:

- Describing levels in video games, which are primarily data with code mixed in

- Describing transformations of different sorts (e.g. the types of languages used in compilers for specifying a programming language parser, and then optimizations)

- Defining hardware (analogues to Spice, Verilog, and VHDL). Hardware can also include mechanical objects, as well more broadly, wetware (e.g. custom bacteria, a la Ginko Bioworks)

- Run on custom hardware (e.g. SIMD and MIMD platforms, similar to GPGPU)

- Are primarily mathematical (e.g. for describing control systems, neural network architectures, etc.)

... and so on.

Not all of this is a DOD/medical mess. A lot of DSLs are REALLY REALLY FUN.


My guess based in my experience would a MUMPS developer for someone like Epic or Meditech. That code gives me nightmares whenever I see it.


Still can barely believe MUMPS is real tbh, first saw it on TDWTF and I thought it was a joke at first.


Coming from today's world, sure. But in 1966, a language with a built-in database was a godsend and there were no standard language conventions to adopt (C was still several years away and only COBOL and Fortran were in wide use).


What, like $$foo(3,4,@bar,"baz")?


A brainfuck developer?


Writing DSLs is not uncommon among Lisp developers.


im guessing a very loyal employee to an enterprise company outside of tech - probably logistics


Retired? Or in Academia?


DoD?


The name is Den. Snow Den.


I think this is powerful to everyone. I use that feature too and didn't even realize it was unique to VS Code. VS Code is really good in having a lot of features but not cluttering the main window.


wow I couldn't disagree more ... the search/replace interface of atom is the thing I missed the most from atom when I migrated to vscode ...

vscode _has_ added an non-sidebar find interface somewhat similar to the atom one -- but its not as good ... for one thing it doesn't support replace (find only)


I have no questions either, I also just wanted to say thank you for the website. It's a bit weird, because I've never actually used it myself except to report my findings.

I've made 8-10 reports or something like that, because it feels like the right thing to do. Which is a compliment to your sites design.

I see you're planning to redo the front page. Why? I've never used the front page. I immediately search for the game or manually edit the URL from my browsers location bar (https://www.protondb.com/app/{id}) to insert the id of the game I want to report on.

After writing that, I do have a question; do you have objective, real data on what users want from the front page?

The only thing I want is a search box that responds to both game titles (with automagic for things like roman numerals and other game title oddities) and numeric IDs. The rest can be hidden.


That's not what conservative means in my country, and frankly without a prefix it's indecipherable. If someone at the pub here says "I'm a conservative", you can actually infer nothing from that statement.

In most cases, you'd probably be correct in thinking that the person would be more inclined to preserve the status quo than changing it too quickly, for fear of unforeseen consequences.

Also, a simple Google search and 30-second skim of Wikipedia throws a wrench in your assertion.


> In most cases, you'd probably be correct in thinking that the person would be more inclined to preserve the status quo than changing it too quickly, for fear of unforeseen consequences.

This does not encompass reactionary conservatives that have become incredibly prominent as a political group in the United States, to the point of completely taking over one of the two political parties.


I think you mean "is certainly a slur." It's not "transphobic" - the word "tranny" is not irrationally afraid of transgendered people.

:-D


"-phobic: having an intolerance or aversion for"

It is a slur that carry the transphobic intent of the writer.

In the same way that ethnic slurs are not themselves ethnic and religious slurs are not themselves religious but convey pejorative, derogatory and insulting messages towards the targeted populations.


I just have to point out that your comment reads to me like you are crying wolf.

However, I'm not a US citizen so I don't follow the situation closely.


US citizen here who followed the situation: they're not crying wolf.


Don’t be lazy, you can confirm the post with a quick search.

What are you trying to say anyway? Cool, so you don’t know what’s going on, and don’t particularly care. So what?


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