bryankaplan

Rent or borrow a vehicle, and mistakenly fill it up according to habit. It's an easy mistake to make.

Making the nozzle shapes incompatible is a smart solution, but in the US at least I'm pretty sure they're interchangeable.

I find it interesting that the context of this comments page apparently overrides the normal definition of “PG” on HN.

Ctrl-k focuses the Search bar unless a website hijacks it, which became regrettably common after the Search bar got hidden by default. But Firefox allows one to reënable it, and some of us continue to rely upon it.

The analogy is location. file : directory :: person : geocoordinates. I thought it was a straight-forward analogy, but clearly I was mistaken.

Hardly. That would be analogous to two people having the same name _and_ the same spacetime coordinates; they would indeed be the same person.

If the elevator was invented today, use of it would require an app which demands access to one’s contacts and microphone, and has a rating of 1.4 stars.

Did they also struggle to understand that some people have the same name yet are not the same person?

The underlying problem here is that a click or tap should always refer to whatever _was_ on the screen a few (100?) milliseconds ago. It’s a long-standing bug on all platforms.

I've come to rely on a robust method of adblocking YouTube which I believe to be perfectly reliable and impossible for YouTube to circumvent: avoid watching YouTube. Incidentally this method also reliably prevents false buffering.

But folders are now stuffed into a small dropdown, leaving All Items as an unorganized mess.

That change alone is pushing me to switch password managers.

Certainly true. Gold is difficult to transport and expensive to protect, whereas Bitcoin is neither.

I've long wished hyperlinks would permit multiple hrefs. Hypertext could be more sophisticated.

Multi-link QR codes could be practically useful, provided an interstice appears with the URLs and allows a person to follow any of them or all of them.

It may well be considered a security flaw for any country to allow foreign nationals to purchase any real estate.

Incidentally, the practice also drives up prices for citizens, leading to housing crises.

But a policy that allows anyone with a foreign allegiance to set up shop next to a military base is courting disaster.