He said no such thing, he said that the planet was named "Матросская тишина" (seaman's silence) after this prison https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matrosskaya_Tishina .

And you are aware that he's playing the russian version of the game, right? Translating some bits for the english audience. I'm sure he's perfectly aware what the name of the game is in russian (it's literally in the first shot of the video).

Seems like you watched 5min to just quickly find something to discredit and immediately dismiss it.

> Should I find Manhunt or Postal to be a mirror of American culture? "Interesting perspective", "insightful social commentary"?

Not a "mirror" of a culture, but if you were not already versed in American culture and watched an insightful review of those games pulling on various culture trends which make up those games, I see no reason why it couldn't be an "Interesting perspective" or "insightful social commentary".

You are right about the prison, I guess I missed both the word 'planet' and the prison name and filled in the blank, and made an unjust judgement of the author of the video.

'Seems like you watched 5min to just quickly find something to discredit and immediately dismiss it'

That's quite an uncharitable interpretation. You are right about one thing though -- I gave up quite early.

"I see no reason why it couldn't be an "Interesting perspective" or "insightful social commentary""

In the context of judging the American nation as a whole -- of course not.

>That's quite an uncharitable interpretation.

Agree, that was an uncharitable offhand sentence. I think it was prompted by your uncharitable criticism of the video -- immediately concluding that he's making shit up (rather that thinking it was a mistake or something else)

>In the context of judging the American nation as a whole -- of course not.

I don't think video is there judge Russian culture as a whole -- and I don't think that's ever useful. It's there to entertain and present (and judge) various cultural _strands_ of it, which someone outside of Russia/Ex-soviet states may not be aware of.

In the context of this thread, grandparent (smsm42) does seem intent to reduce this particular cultural stand to being _the_ Russian culture and all dominating. I disagree with that, but neither this video nor context of the palmetieri2000 post (he wanted to illustrate that it _can_ be that comical) was about that.

'I think it was prompted by your uncharitable criticism'

Yep, it's only fair.

'nor context of the palmetieri2000 post (he wanted to illustrate that it _can_ be that comical) was about that'

What is 'it' in 'it _can_ be that comical'?

Here I disagree with you -- I interpret 'it can't be that cartoonish' as a reply to 'culture-wide thing' statement. A subculture can be arbitrarily weird, but when a sweeping statement is made about the whole nation it becomes cartoonish.

In this context bringing up a game review is as a valid point as bringing up Manhunt or Postal in a thread about American-wide culture.

Considering your lack of charitability you had for my initial comment why would the person you are replying to interpret you as anything other than nitpicky and asinine?

You have added nothing to the conversation.

Also in what way would this ever be at all related to the context of judging the American nation as anything? The article is about a robot is Moscow and the comment I replied to is discussing if Russian subcultures or culture can seem Cartoonish.

Quit inventing battles to lose.

"the comment I replied to is discussing if Russian subcultures or culture can seem Cartoonish."

Why did you inserted 'subcultures' here?

The smsm42 subverted the discussion of the robot fuckup with a russophobic comment specifically saying 'It's a culture-wide thing' and you were replying to the comment saying 'there is no way they are that cartoonish'.

Nowhere subcultures are mentioned except in your comment where you offered a game review as a source of information about Russian culture ('a really interesting perspective on *at least* some aspects of Russian subcultures and their prominence') and partial confirmation of the 'culture-wide thing' comment.

Another great "Gotcha!" from gdy.

You have made no points worth addressing and contributed nothing to the conversation.

My point is that you brought a cherry-picked subculture to the discussion of the 'culture-wide thing' and after that lied that the conversation was about 'Russian subcultures or culture'.

I don't think you can 'address' it in any way except for not doing such things in the future.

You lost any credibility the moment you went off in your original comment. You are in no position to make such assessments.

The video is good, on topic and highly relevant to this discussion.

But why do you assume that they don't like cats or even have an opinion on them? Most of first glance opinion forming is subconscious or near subconscious. It's less likely to be "I see a cat. I hate cats. Next" and more "Nah, not feeling it. Next".

You might be right. One thing is for sure though, if they actually like cats I assume this would be a big attractor. To flip the script, i'd 10x prefer a profile photo if it had a cat, given I like cats. Of course the two cats would also need to get along. Double date I guess.

Just to push back against this view a bit with one anecdote -- I'm still in contact with an ex-colleague of mine, who I used to work with in retail. He now works for various delivery apps. And according to him it's vastly superior to any retail job he worked previously and whenever I mention any of the negative press these apps receive and query for his opinion he usually just rolls his eyes. He gets to control when and how long he works, he gets to ride his bike (which he loves) and pay is much better than any retail job he would get in london (and he would be looking at retail manager considering his experience). So in that picture of local McDonald's in London, consider that perhaps those guys are actually much happier than everyone else working in that store (including the McDonald's managers). Obviously that's just an anecdote of one person, I don't actually have a strong opinion on this.

...until the day he gets injured, bike stolen, etc etc etc - and these jobs are also unsustainable because they're not saving enough for retirement, i.e. when your body is no longer able to compete with younger bodies.

Serious question, have you ever been poor in your life or worked a retail job?

Yes, many, I have stories. Inspired me to take school seriously. But this isn't about me.

Obviously, people working retail jobs have limited options to make money. But that's also not the point.

The point is that gig work sounds good until you need worker's comp.

I absolutely believe what your ex colleague says/thinks of his job is exactly what he means, however he's comparing it with a retail job,which,in most cases are pretty crap. I also understand that even if the job may look crap, it can still be a huge improvement for the person who's doing the job. I've done enough crappy and good jobs in my life to know the difference, but I appreciate not everyone would have such a perspective.

> , he gets to ride his bike (which he loves)

delivery guy i know has to, well, deliver and thete was nowhere to lock the bike. bike got stolen, 1 grand down the drain. he us borrowing a bike from a friend as otherwise he can't earn

My (now ex) brother-in-law had to pivot from waiting tables to a delivery job. A positive benefit for him is that when he has the kids, he can bring them along and spend some time with them.

That’s something that you’d take for for granted if you work at a laptop all day.

I did have some people delivering stuff for me with their kids/family inside the van. This is not OK in any shape or form. I understand why it's like this, but it doesn't make it any better.

One of the greatest aspects of working from home is getting to see my young son all day. When programming or other focus work I have to isolate, but for meetings he joins me and it's a lot of fun.

My job allows and supports this, and it's one of the biggest reasons I stay with them.

It's a convention to use roman numerals for centuries in some european countries. Parent poster probably just done it out of habit.

Thanks, I wasn’t aware it is not a “global” convention and wasn’t sure what does the parent make fun of.

One learns every day :) I will be more careful about this when writing centuries in English the next time.

Also this poster on quora have a detailed list https://www.quora.com/Why-do-we-write-century-numbers-with-I...

Agreed, it definitely feels like we are already past "peak multiplayer-only" AAA games phase, and trend line corrected itself and now is looking stable. There's is less evidence now that single player games are going away compared to 10 years ago.

I'm being a bit pedantic but

> Misconception: "The browser decides to send cookies."

> Wrong: A browser, or user-agent in general, will never invent a cookie out of thin air, and therefore it never sends a cookie unless it has been set by the webserver beforehand (either with an HTTP header 'Cookie' or with JavaScript code).

These statements are not mutually exclusive and are in fact both true. Browser would not "invent a cookie out of thin air", but it also "decides" to send a particular cookie and there are various configs, switches and decisions (either directly in browser code or extension) which determine if cookie gets sent.

Other misconception answers sound right to me.

Yes, a browser decides to echo or not a cookie set by the website.

Probably because people who browse with js (mostly) disabled are over-represented on HN. So for us it is a significant use case.

Exactly, both informative for MacOS users and those who never used it. MacOS users can quickly scan and think yeah I don't care about this feature, or think huh this is something that could be useful and maybe I should look for a 3rd party app which has this. Those considering switching to MacOS can compare to their existing environment and have a greater picture of what possible pain points to expect.

I would like to see more of posts like this for all Desktop environments. Like things you can do in MacOS but not in default Ubuntu setup.

This list is personal and far from exhaustive (which is fine). If I quickly scanned looking for things I care about, I'd find very little. However, as a Linux user I could very quickly come up with an equally long list of things that I do care about and that does not overlap much with this one.

I think the larger point is: in Linux, some things are complicated but most things are possible. On Mac and Windows, some things are easier but many things are impossible.

So there's definitely a tradeoff. But since I have to use this tool for the majority of my waking hours in order to make a living, the ROI from taking a bit longer to solve an issue and then having it solved virtually forever makes Linux a better proposition IMHO.

> On Mac and Windows, some things are easier but many things are impossible.

The obvious caveat is that many things are impossible out of the box. There are plenty of tools available to address a good number of the shortcomings mentioned in the story.

> Why do we need a trade off between stability and control?

There isn't infinite time and money in the world. Every hour making one feature more stable means an hour not invested in another. Flexibility and control are just additional features. If you want to change the system font, you have to test (and support) a much wider array of things, especially if your UI guidelines are as restrictive as Apple's. Every piece of control you expose to the user increases the engineering cost of writing and maintaining the software.

And frankly, if more people wanted that level of control, this year TRULY would be the year of linux on the desktop. But they don't.

It's not just control. It's control plus stability, as we said.

Control is deliberately withdrawn to preserve the commercial interests of the producer, not because it is technically impossible to add it to stability.

You want stability? Provide a perfect default configuration. You want control? Allow tweaking that configuration in detail for users that are willing to do it.

Apple effectively has infinite money, they could make more man-hours

But you can't deny that Internet is a great multiplier for progress. So you are just handicapping yourself. I'd rather we figure out how to address the problem instead.

Something else which hasn't been suggested yet. Basically it could be that you are not opposed to the secret voting in principle, but you think current proposed options are not fully baked yet and you also think that current status quo is sub-optimal too.