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What does Arch do in particular to cause a mess? It's been a hot minute since I last used it and surely didn't use pandoc back then.

> Fernando Alonso said there was now "too much technology" involved in the series

> "That’s the problem that we have," [Max Verstappen] said. "These engines are so complicated[...]"

Am I the only one who raised an eyebrow reading this? Hasn't "technology" always been a big point of F1? Or do they think that only "software" is "technology"?

Agreed. It's misattributing quotes and talking about OpenBSD releases from more than a year ago as if they were upcoming releases. Something's seriously wrong with this article.

> It pains me that DuckDuckGo has the name that it has, since you can't even pretend to want to use that as a verb

"DDG it" rolls off the tongue

I'm not saying websites can't demand payments for service, I'm just saying it's bad if it's a necessary fix for "scrapers are destroying the basic social contract of the web".

> there should be some cost for sending traffic somewher

So now, because of bad actors, I need to pay for the privilege of watching a website or using a service that was meant to be free? No, thanks.

I don't have a solution, but "break how the web currently works" is not one I would accept all willy nilly.

EDIT: yes, I realize we already broke the web (with Anubis, cloudflare, recaptcha etc) but I think we should resist slowly breaking it further.

From context I'd say they meant "formerly" and that's just a typo. I didn't even notice the error before you pointed it out.

It's like every time we discuss this on hn we have to go back to basics.

Builders/makers can be roughly subdivided into two camps: some like building for the final products; others like building for the process itself.

I'm in the latter camp. OP probably too. You probably are in the former.

And that's fine. But let's just stop pretending the other side doesn't exist.

EDIT: And this goes for OP as well. They forgot a lot of "for me"s in the article.

> and loved project here

You may want to check upthread how loved it is :)

I, for one, don't hate it, but I hate what it represents and see its existence (rather, the reason for its existence) as a defeat for the web.

I think they meant the same as the latin phrase "ante litteram"

I think the issue here might be that you're familiar with what "style" is supposed to be in music, so you know how imitating it would look (rather, sound) like.

On the contrary, you may have no idea what style means in the context of writing, so you can't fathom what imitating writing style looks like.

I honestly don't know precisely either, but a couple of things to mull over: Clarke and Asimov are said to have a "dry" style. Most of their novels are "story". On the contrary, Eco describes things in very minute detail (there's a whole chapter in "The name of the rose" that is the description of a door).

Those are examples of elements of style you may be able to reproduce and that aren't limited to wording.