It seems like the "Step 1, Step 2, …, Step 4" format likely predated the 1998 South Park episode, with use on Usenet for omitting dangerous or legally-questionable instructions or otherwise gatekeeping "trade secrets": https://arstechnica.com/civis/threads/where-does-the-step-st...

There's also a bit of prior art with the cartoon by Sidney Harris published in American Scientist in 1977 with a step two abridged as "Then A Miracle Occurs": http://www.sciencecartoonsplus.com/images/miracle_sharris.gi...

Interesting, thanks. Looks like also guilty of assuming the first place I saw it was the definitive source.

^claim to — this type of legalese (shrink wrap, clickwrap, liability waivers, etc.) is a bluff (when in doubt: sue)

For an authoritative overview of high dynamic range on monitors, I recommend the 137 minute documentary Debunking HDR (Steve Yedlin, 2025) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44248968

Accidentally read this in Zizek’s voice, can imagine him delivering this in a recreated neon lit motel room set

> Iz it too late now tsh to say sorry? I think tsk the id-eology of time described here....

I can hear the sniffing now

Full frame Foveon when?

Twenty years ago, OneLook Reverse was how I took college papers from a B to an A through intimidating the TAs with absurdly specific yet exactly fitting three dollar words. That they thought I knew the field led to great friendships (and jobs) with some of them. I owe you big time and thank you!

That fills my heart with brobdingnagian joy, thank you!

expected rapid sequence intubation – could have been fun

There’s the WordPress 100 Year Plan or 100 Year Domain: https://wordpress.com/100-year/

100-Year Plan: $38,000 (hosting and domain)

100-Year Domain: $2,000 (one-time purchase, no annual renewals)

Related discussion “The USB Situation” (3 months ago): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47950993

re: https://randsinrepose.com/guides/usb/usb-guide.html

Apple sells this $30 (0.5m) CalDigit cable https://www.apple.com/shop/product/hs9d2zm/a/ and this $70 (1m) Apple cable https://www.apple.com/shop/product/mdw94am/a/

There's also some interesting discussion of Thunderbolt 5 cables on reddit (6 months ago): https://www.reddit.com/r/UsbCHardware/comments/1r84q54/

Be aware of https://developers.google.com/search/docs/essentials/spam-po...

> 403. That’s an error.

> Your client does not have permission to get URL /search/docs/essentials/spam-policies from this server. That’s all we know.

What a utopia.

You keep reporting "403 Forbidden" errors from disparate websites but especially Google, and these are errors that other HN users are not having.

I do not believe that this is an accident. I suggest that you consider this is a "you problem", inigyou, and not the webmaster's fault.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49194606

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49165757

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49145010

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49144842

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49136992

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49129572

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49096143

Maybe an awful lot of websites have extremely broad blocklists and I want to raise awareness to this fact and shame anyone else who's thinking of implementing an extremely broad blocklist.

no offense but i dont know you and maybe you do belong on blocklists lol

I definitely don't deserve to know Google Search spam policies, clearly.