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I have seen this happen so often. People who evidently don't use or haven't used a Windows based machine in the last 20 years complaining more than anybody else.

There are plenty of reasons to hate on Windows(-based machines) but what would they know.


The problem with this 'it is relative' line of logic is that everything can be relative. We need terms that describe stuff regardless of how people perceive it.

Otherwise, as you said, 'bricked' can mean almost anything. So what's the point of using a word without any particular meaning?


Exactly this


4 hours? You are insane (in a good way), mate. Any less than 7 hours and I literally can't even wake up. If I force myself, my body will literally not respond to my commands and getting up and straight becomes as hard as deadlifting 100kg...


I used to be the same way, but I went on a Zero Carb diet a few years ago because of some food allergy problems and I immediately needed about an hour less sleep.

Also I have an ADHD medication that I take first thing in the morning, and it wakes you up about 100x better than coffee, sort of short circuiting your biology and making you a morning person.


Why would you give minorities an "easier" time? Why not the same as everyone else?


Affirmative Action


This is wrong on so many levels it's not even funny. Original HN submission WRT that link: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20799705


On Chrome, you can hit CTRL + G, which does the same as CTRL + F, but is not hookable by web sites


Thanks for that, I didn't know it! It seems that also F3 works, and in fact CTRL+G is alias of F3, and both work in Firefox as well.

The only issue is that in Firefox, it is only equivalent for the first search; once you close the bottom bar, subsequent F3/CTRL-G just do "find next occurrence" and do not display the bar anymore. Chrome always displays the search input on the other hand.

Edit: since talking shortcuts, in Firefox ' (apostrophe) is like CTRL-F but searches only hyperlinks (and you can cycle through in case of multiple matches with F3/CTRL-G) which is extremely useful for quickly navigating pages via keyboard only.


Ctrl + G certainly is hookable[0], folks just rarely know that it's an alias for 'find'. If you REALLY want the browser's search, in Chrome, you can use the mouse to open the menu and choose "Find". You could also use any keyboard shortcut that focuses the URL bar (so keyboard events are no longer sent to the page) and press Ctrl-f then.

0: In Google Sheets, for example, Ctrl-g opens the JS-driven find bar, or, if it's already open, advances the match.


Somewhat related: The last version of Chromium said "Press Alt+F and then X" instead of Ctrl-Shift-Q when I tried to quit it using that key combo.

Unfortunately, Alt+F is trivially overridable by web pages (Twitch.tv in this case -- to move to the search bar), so that doesn't really work.

Chromium devs have no idea what the impact of their decisions are... and judging by the issue trackers they don't care.


I kinda want to burn down the world after reading this comment. How did we let computing get to be such a garbage fire?


Holy shit I had no idea! I was tired of Chrome's bookmark manager hijacking CTRL + F. I'll use CTRL + G from now on!


OP seems to never have heard of public transport.

Wait, are they American? Most likely.


The author disabled resizing (zooming) on mobile, leaving the text unreadable. Why do people do this at all? I've seen it happen so often.


Zooms fine for me on my iPhone 7. Reader mode also works, which is like a magic fix crappy website button nowadays.

Tangentially, had anyone noticed a weird zooming bug on mobile safari that appears to cancel a zoom gesture and jump back to the unzoomed view? Quitting the app from the app switcher appears to fix it.


Safari on iOS has been ignoring the user-scalable=no viewport setting since iOS 10. This was done to improve accessibility for the users.


> “Tangentially, had anyone noticed a weird zooming bug on mobile safari that appears to cancel a zoom gesture and jump back to the unzoomed view? Quitting the app from the app switcher appears to fix it.”

yes, it happens on my ipad pro running ios 12.2 (16E227). have been meaning to upgrade thinking that would fix it, but maybe that’s not the case?


Happens on my iPad Pro in the latest 12.4 betas, I can only bypass it by slowing down as I’ve zoomed in, a quick gesture snaps back and is ignored, but a quick gesture followed by waiting a second seems to preserve the zooming in. It happens most often on this site, for me, probably because I’m trying to zoom in to click tiny links, even on an iPad Pro.


I had noticed that it appears to happen a lot here on HN but I didn’t want to say incase of confirmation bias.


What you are seeing is the default way a website looks on a mobile device, not anything that was opted into. The site does not 'disable resizing', it just doesn't have any mobile support. The author has chosen, thus far, not to put in the effort to support mobile sizes well.


Zooming works on both Chrome & Firefox for me. (Android)


Zooms just fine on Firefox 67.0 on Android. Even goes into 'reader mode' and is zoom-able there on the same.

What browser/mobile OS are you using?


My guess is they want it to look like man pages


The accessibility options of your browser should let you forcibly enable zooming regardless of what the author mandates.


Only 355687428096000 years old? Mustn't have even finished college!



This is why I now start every git problem-solving session with "Do you want me to fix it or do you want me to help you fix it?"


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