Correct, it’s an encoding for characters from different alphabets https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internationalized_domain_nam...

I came to post that this was a dupe but realized it’s the same person who posted the other popular X thread from the other day https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39385739

Yes, I am wondering if this post contains any new information not previously discussed.

Also it is not the first time they have posted a similar related post to it [0]

Their previous justification for the dupe was:

> It has more context and information, that would be beneficial to HN users.

Which I believe could have been added as supplementary comments in their first popular thread instead of posting 3 different threads on the same general topic.

0: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39402057

Yes, it has a straightforward concept of /api/* endpoints that can be leveraged for any type of backend.

One of the founders of Heroku actually had a short-lived effort to build a Ruby-based shell called Rush https://github.com/adamwiggins/rush

People would smoke in church? During the service?

I remember this as an old joke:

It's sinful to smoke while you're praying, but it's virtuous to pray while you're smoking.

If a lot of worshipers smoked outside just beforehand, it would still smell of stale cigs inside.

“Hey, if god didn’t want me to smoke he shouldn’t have invented cigarettes”

In some of the more old school churches I went to in Missouri yeah. More on the Kansas side of my family it was more everyone would smoke in the foyer / approaching steps or such, and it'd just suck through the whole building the whole day.

In my experience, no. This is the tapas culture typical in some areas of Spain. If they are brought to you without discussion, they are complimentary — you only pay for the drink whether you eat any or not. The only way to know if you’ll receive something typically is to ask and there is no harm or insult in specifying dietary restrictions, though they may just bring bread or olives if you’re on a strict diet. Other regions offer them for a cost and that will be clearly marked on a menu. And even in regions that do provide them gratis, there can even be nuance based on what kind of beverage is ordered.

I wonder how much this situation is being affected by large-scale deep agricultural wells? I think Arizona is a big foreign exporter (Saudi and China) of alfalfa for animal feed. Kinda wild to drain aquifers for export...

I’m not sure that’s a fair criticism. Would calling this a model help? That’s such an abstract and overloaded term. Also, I know not everyone can know every open source author, but wycats has been a crucial contributor in the Ruby, Rust, and JS (probably more) ecosystems for over a decade. I doubt he picked the terminology out of naïveté and would guess that he would welcome discussion on the topic if you raised it in the repo.

I’m still an Ubuntu user on a X230t laptop because the auxiliary buttons/switches, touch screen, and drawing pen work out of the box. I use Debian on other devices when possible.

The article mentions that contaminated soil removed from other sites could have been utilized during construction of the school