Akronymus

Maybe a different example works better for your mental model:

A user can set custom settings, and those settings may or may not have a value assigned to them. For example, one setting is optimization level, another option is a debug flag.

You want to have a unified interface to get information about settings, queried through some intermediate system. (lets just say it is limited to querying specific settings, rather than getting the entire list, due to legacy constraints in this case) Because for some settings you just care about them existing and for others you care about the actual value, you have to differentiate between a setting that contains something, a setting that contains nothing, and one that doesnt exist.

you used to be able to set the redesign_optout cookie to true, but that doesnt seem to work anymore as of like a day ago for me

I know a few latinos, they absolutely loathe latinx. They treat it almost equally to chink, even. Doesnt help that latinx is pretty hard to pronounce for them.

> Woke 1 was absolutely crazy.

That feels like the covid amnesty thing to me. Say the previous "version" of x was insane and we should just blanket forgive and forget about it. Kind of a rejecting all responsibility.

(besides, i dont think there is a woke 1/2 in the first place IMO)

And the democrats were in favor of slavery by that same logic

i used to use mspaint for its lack of anti aliasing. Then they added it and wouldnt let you disable it.

Anyways, much happier now that I no longer use it.

> The real mistake was to connect such food critical equipment to the internet. I don't know who dared to do that, this has been part of the common knowledge for a while now.

Ive got to disagree there, the mistake is in it not being readonly accessible. Monitoring fridges in such a setting is one of the few times it actually does make sense to put online readonly.

make interactions with others' posts/post others' stuff a soft req for posting your own stuff? So not following it could be deemed actionable by the hn mod team?

Edit: nvm thats already in the guidelines

set the cookie "redesign_optout" to true

I was more concerned about supply chain attacks, along with the idea of stripping down all dependencies to truly just what you need.

Need a few math operations? pull those in, instead of an entire math lib, for example.

Also, your own library, at this point, is much less of an attack vector than some dependency from a package manager

Yeah I wasn't sure of the actual threshold (I kinda just lucked into a lot of karma early on because of a post about factorio releasing 1.0)

set the cookie "redesign_optout" to true

HN also only gived downvote perms after being active, afair.

weirdly enough that reminds me of wattpad and ao3, where wattpad uses much nicer sounding terms while ao3 uses as accurate terms as possible. (which makes ao3 seem more "degenerate")