Nice to have a quick and dirty pronunciation guide for this.
Interesting how useless transliteration can be unless the reader is familiar with the system. Naiively applying conventional pronunciation rules to transliterated words can yield mixed results.
Russian is kind of similar, though not as extreme as Mandarin. For example, most English speakers pronounce Khrushchev as "kroosh-chev" because that's how it reads if you're used to English spelling rules. But a more accurate (though still wrong) pronunciation would be more like "Hrooshoff" with a phlegm on the H and a rolled R if you can do it.
But getting to that pronunciation in the first place requires knowing that kh is Х, that shch is щ, and that the e is actually a ё (which is a separate letter from е in Russian, but the dots are frequently omitted because speakers of the language know which е's are е's and which are ё).
It's not that complicated. Healthcare is expensive, sure.
It's made more expensive by allowing the private healthcare industry to operate in such a parasitic way.
Americans and their employers pay an obscene amount of money to insurance companies every year for "health insurance". In turn, those companies use that money to employ people full time to find ways to deny people the coverage that they pay for based on technicalities. They do this so that they can pay people like Brian Thompson more money.
It's a disgusting and immoral system that should not be allowed to exist.
From my pov, this is the best hacker story in recent times. A small group of protocol nerds are overtaking Zuck and Musk, the most powerful people on the planet. This is hacker af. [1]
[1] A dev team of 20 people are the #1 app in App and Play Stores, while open source and fully remote. Heck yes. This is an amazing story. It should be front page every day.
I was a highschool senior when Facebook came out, back when you needed an email with a university's domain name to sign up. That one was driven by pure FOMO. Everyone's older friends were on it and going to cool frat parties and you were just stuck on the outside looking in. LiveJournal and Myspace had nothing on that.
Call it a tipping point, call it a collective action problem finally being resolved, snowballing, viral liftoff, or belittle it and call it a "herd stampede" if you really want.
But those are all "organic" phenomena. The grandparent comment that called it "inorganic" seems to be mistaken.
There is this cynical (and maybe often warranted) take that any sudden uptake or virality is astro-turfing or I inorganic or shilling.
Not the case here though, I see it myself how basically all my old Twitter communities have migrated and things are really vibrant. Block lists, mute words and starter packs mean I we exactly what I want to see, which adds to the appeal.
Why is it so unbelievable to you that a different platform with seemingly happy users could have a viral moment through word of mouth, right as a whole lot of people are actively seeking alternatives?
Let’s put it this way: if a huge amount of people suddenly find themselves done with twitter, what serious alternatives are there beside Bluesky?
I actually think there are a few, only some have achieved critical mass with smaller subnetworks. BlueSky and Threads both seem to have attracted non-tech networks although Threads downranked political content, so BlueSky seems like the natural next mass appeal product.
Really curious how the Windows 10 EOL crunch is going to go next year.
It feels like there must be a ton of systems out there with pre 8th Gen Intel CPUs and with no TPM. On the one hand, PCs are cheap enough nowadays that maybe MS can force them to replace it, not to mention that cell phones and other mobile devices have taken the place of the primary personal computer for most regular people.
On the other hand, Windows 10 might end up sticking around much longer in the same way that XP did. In which case MS might be forced to support it with security updates beyond 2025, or be forced to release a version of Win 11 without the CPU and TPM requirements.
I can not imagine how a phone replaces a PC for any regular people but maybe I am the one who is not normal.
I will be looking to move back to linux myself as I have the i7 6700k and I don't really want to drop hundreds of dollars right now to be pushed into a bad OS I don't really want. I guess my cpu is considered "old" in computer age but it is still way more powerful then I need on a daily basis. So I will just leave MS, this will be the push I finally need. I already switched over on my kids pc when my last hard drive died. I just haven't had the push to do it on mine. But this will be the perfect push. And I will preach the shit out of switching to anyone that will listen to me.
Good point on the phone thing. The Windows 11 restrictions could cause a marked decline in PC usage completely, as people give up and see how far they can get with just a phone. I’m sure many will realize they don’t need a PC anymore.
A lot of serious software offerings are only concerned with the server use case, modern servers run Linux unless there's a good reason not to, and modern windows has more than one acceptable way to run Linux binaries if you absolutely have to.
> modern servers run Linux unless there's a good reason not to
I think many people on HN would be surprised at how many orgs are using Windows servers heavily, because of their familiarity and comfort with Microsoft, or because some application requires it.
Of course they are non-tech companies using the servers internally for enterprise applications, not web servers, but there is absolutely a lot of windows server usage in corporate environments.
> I think many people on HN would be surprised at how many orgs are using Windows servers heavily, because of their familiarity and comfort with Microsoft, or because some application requires it.
I think most HN readers are well aware that there are a lot of Windows servers out there, especially in the sorts of environments where it's "The Server".
That doesn't change the fact that there are orders of magnitude more Linux servers in the world, and as the post you replied to said Linux is the default assumption. Basically every container and the vast majority of VM guests are Linux. I'd be willing to bet that more Linux servers have been deployed in the time it took me to type this post than Windows servers will be deployed this week.
I'm not trying to make the point that there is a comparable number of Windows servers to Linux servers, and I believe that going off "number of servers" is of limited usefulness. There are of course going to be far more Linux servers because they are far easier to provision, and the people managing them are generally going to be much more apt at orchestrating large fleets of small servers than the people managing Windows servers, which will tend towards larger servers with multiple purposes.
I'm simply trying to say that Linux is not the default assumption in many contexts where a lot of money gets spent on licenses and services for server software.
There are of course large contexts (tech companies and web servers) where Linux is the default assumption.
The interesting thing is that Valve is not a "huge company". They're privately held and only had 336 employees the last time headcount was reported (2021).
Interesting how useless transliteration can be unless the reader is familiar with the system. Naiively applying conventional pronunciation rules to transliterated words can yield mixed results.
Russian is kind of similar, though not as extreme as Mandarin. For example, most English speakers pronounce Khrushchev as "kroosh-chev" because that's how it reads if you're used to English spelling rules. But a more accurate (though still wrong) pronunciation would be more like "Hrooshoff" with a phlegm on the H and a rolled R if you can do it.
But getting to that pronunciation in the first place requires knowing that kh is Х, that shch is щ, and that the e is actually a ё (which is a separate letter from е in Russian, but the dots are frequently omitted because speakers of the language know which е's are е's and which are ё).