Reminds of a neighbor I had back when I was renting in a big city. He didn’t seem to understand what’s wrong with keeping his TV on for very long periods broadcasting the sleaziest (at least at the time) reality show on full volume.
I tried talking to him multiple times to no avail. He’d basically say “yeah I’ll pay attention no problem” but nothing changed for weeks.
Coincidentally at that time I was working morning shifts at a radio station. Those start really early so you gotta wake up at around 4am.
I decided one day to change my alarm (triggered on my Sony Vaio) from the peaceful iPhone-like tunes to System of a Down’s “Chop Suey”. I also decided to forget it on, on repeat, full volume, while leaving the apartment.
I don’t think 3 days passed before he knocked loudly at my door, moaning and complaining.
I told him: “you gotta understand, your TV was so loud I couldn’t sleep for nights on end, the old tune wouldn’t wake me up anymore. I had to change it. I’m so tired that I even forget to turn it off.
The details of the weapon still doesn't seem to be known, but probably just a matter of "when" those leak, seems to be the same as what was used in Venezuela (which Trump might confuse when he talks about it).
I lived in an apartment with extremely thin floors. One night I needed to move the bed 5 inches away from the wall at 3am. In my room it made almost no noise and took 1 second. But, the next morning the woman below came up and complained.
I told her I heard her masturbating often and would just put my headphones on and check in 20 minutes. She said she didn't do that. I said "well, maybe you're listening to porn. All I know is I hear something".
From childhood I remember there was a guy who was blasting loud music whole day. He wouldn't stop, so one neighbour got so angry he took an axe, demolished this guy's door, took his stereo and launched it through the window, through the glass. Fortunately it landed in the garden on the other side. Then he said next time he will chop him up and throw through the window.
That was the end of nuisance.
Police came, but all the neighbours said they didn't hear anything and the guy did it himself, must have gone insane.
Ignoring the entirety of the rest of this story, I desperately want to know why:
"Fortunately it landed in the garden on the other side." was so notable.
"The victim did it to themselves" is a famously bulletproof defense. I don't know why people don't try it more often.
This is the typical tall tale that used to travel in every neighborhood as a warning, especially to scare kids from doing some things. Kids eat up these stories. Probably doesn't work that much in the age of phones and "pics (shorts?) or it never happened".
Unfortunately, we’ve reached the era where pics and shorts are very much no longer proof. In a few minutes you could generate video of that exact scenario.
Based on this tall tale being the top comment, and the replies to you, I hereby request dang remove the “HN is becoming Reddit” nono from the guidelines.
I agree. I don't understand the argument that just because people have incorrectly claimed HN is turning into reddit before, it automatically means it can never happen. I think HN has become a lot more like reddit and in some ways even worse.
> I don't understand the argument that just because people have incorrectly claimed HN is turning into reddit before, it automatically means it can never happen.
I don’t think the argument is it can never happen, but rather that at the time of writing of the guidelines it hadn’t. And that it is an argument that doesn’t advance the discussion. Complaining that HN is becoming like Reddit is one of the things which makes HN more like Reddit.
Baseless accusations, because what bothers night people in the morning, bothers morning people in the night.
The only real difference is how much you care about how your actions impact the environment and people around you.
I wake up early, because I work early, I don't make any sound, my flatmate (I rent a room from the company) works late and always stays up late, they make so much noise that they keep waking me up to the point that I had to report them to the company.
It doesn't matter if you're a night or a morning person, what matters is, are you considerate or not.
Considerate people will be considerate at any time of the day, but there are a lot more checks and balances to keep the inconsiderate at bay at night (e.g. noise bylaws). They soon learn that they have to become considerate. Conversely, anything goes for the inconsiderate morning crowd.
As a collector of off kilter bigotry, I love finding new forms of it. Gave me a smile thinking about how much you must have nursed this grudge against morning people (they are a judgey holier than thou group on average). The particular group I harbor bigotry towards is car drivers with tinted front windows, which I find to display anti social behaviors as a group.
A custom Python/Django based mini-app (mini — at least for now) that will allow me to import transactions sanely and safely to my local GnuCash install.
I’ve been doing tedious manual entry for a bit over two years now and after having missed three consecutive months, the only other option was to bail.
As a start it should help with 3 main things:
- Translation, categorization: my source documents aren’t in English but my GnuCash entries are. This is one of the reasons I don’t use the built-in imports. (This should shave off at least 90% of time spent entering data)
- Human-error prevention: there were at least 5 times where it took me over 15 minutes to reconcile a discrepancy because I entered some number or some account wrong somewhere.
I happen to use Paddle. Happen because Stripe isn’t available in my country and Lemon Squeezy wasn’t around / was very new back then. It’s OK but it really irks me that they don’t really fight chargebacks. (I haven’t had many but the fee they throw on you automatically is so hefty for a B2C.)
Their V1 API (not Paddle “Billing”) is…not the best I’ve used.
The fees come from the bank and are the same on stripe so, that part is just how the game works.
I see the 'not fighting disputes' from both sides; as a vendor it sucks, but for paddle fighting them is a loose loose game, it would cost them say 50-200$ in time to handle each one and they get some of the liability for it too, also imagine paddle gets really good at fighting chargebacks - where do you think the fraudsters will go to process payments?
Agreed on the chargeback fee they really dont give a shit. I have learned to deal with their V1 API, it has a lot of weird quirks. Kinda wish they offered a better upgrade path to the new billing.
Lemonsqueezy is a lot more expensive than Paddle especially if you are EU based. Hidden fees and things like they only payout USD so you are paying exchange fees multiple times.
Off topic: I’m halfway through the article and can’t help but notice the relatively high number of times a word is erroneously repeated twice; wondering if it was “edited” by AI.
Yeah, I also wondered how quick would it be to ~~rip off~~ replicate “diskprices.com for X” and took a weekend (ok more) to build https://tvpricesindex.com (Also using HTMX).
TVs are much less of a “commodity” of course, but it’s a nice experiment that I’ll iterate on a bit more with time. Also, first deploy on Railway (was nice enough, definitely compared to Heroku, but they have a way to go), and using other libraries I wanted to learn.
Will probably start grouping models better soon, and offer other filters.
BTW: If you plan to do something like this with PAAPI (Product Advertising API), know that Amazon has the constant axe of banning you if you don’t generate “qualified” sales for 30 days straight.
The Amazon PAAPI is "interesting" because to even access it, you need to have 3 qualified sales. But... I wanted to use the API to create a website where I'd post the affiliate links on. It's a chicken-and-egg problem. That's why I went with eBay.
Yep, I don't have much experience with affiliate programs (I like to build more SaaS-like apps[1]) but from my research Amazon have gotten really stingy circa 2019. Happy to see an alternative.
[1] I didn't know about the 3-sales precondition either. I guess some people bought albums on Amazon on my other music-related app.
Yep, I'm fighting this battle at the moment. I got the required 3 sales, but then they rejected me a few days later. From the rejection email "Your website/app did not meet our content standards as the content on your site is insufficient."
There's clearly precedent as I know Jeremies diskprices qualifies. Fingers crossed that Amazon play fair...
I don't understand their worries. What are they trying to achieve with this? I can understand e.g. not wanting to have affiliate links on fraudulent/deceptive websites, but how is a search interface hurting anybody?
Yeah, my first lines of Python (or code) were Selenium/BeautifulSoup. The problems with these are sensitivity for (DOM) changes, speed, and scale (not that I'm too concerned with those at the moment, it's just a fun refreshing project).
Hi. I’m the author. First off, happy to hear you find that refreshing - it’s a really nice compliment to hear!
I, like you, hate blanket statements. Perhaps I should I’ve emphasized a newbie like me in that sentence? I really knew next to nothing about how web development, and specifically serving your site from a server, works.
Unfortunately it’s abandonware now. It was called Showhopping and it would use the Scrobbler API and a list of your favorite bands and find out if any bands you might like (including the ones you listed) were playing in a given area any time soon. You could give it a location and a time range and it would give a list of shows playing on a map with a percentage back based on the likelihood that you’d enjoy the show. It was very lightweight with no sign up and I had it in mind people could use it like Yelp essentially, just ad-hoc.
I tried talking to him multiple times to no avail. He’d basically say “yeah I’ll pay attention no problem” but nothing changed for weeks.
Coincidentally at that time I was working morning shifts at a radio station. Those start really early so you gotta wake up at around 4am.
I decided one day to change my alarm (triggered on my Sony Vaio) from the peaceful iPhone-like tunes to System of a Down’s “Chop Suey”. I also decided to forget it on, on repeat, full volume, while leaving the apartment.
I don’t think 3 days passed before he knocked loudly at my door, moaning and complaining.
I told him: “you gotta understand, your TV was so loud I couldn’t sleep for nights on end, the old tune wouldn’t wake me up anymore. I had to change it. I’m so tired that I even forget to turn it off.
But yeah, I’ll try to pay attention to it”
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