Nitpick: the dollar symbol comes BEFORE the number. $49 and not 49$

Are there currencies that write it at the end instead?

Yes, we write 49€. It's how you spell it, fourty nine euro. Actually, it depends where, but most of the country put the sign at the end, like most notations.

Although in juxtaposition from the English pronunciation, it has an advantage:

"If it was written as 1,200.00$ it would be easier to forge it to become, for example, 91,200.00$ by appending a single digit in front."

It is the same if it goes before.

$100 can become $1000 or whatever. It is in fact this the reason checks have the quantity written in letters too, and also a dash that occupies the rest of the space.

It’s not the same if you complete the amount with cents. 100.00$ can become 9100.00$ much easier than $100.00.

I explicitly and carefully write out my tip and total with a dollar sign and cents and sometimes circle the total in an attempt to prevent the temptation for anyone to alter the amount (I’ve heard this happening to a could of friends back in college at restaurants and bars).

It isn't really about currencies, it's about languages: pretty much every language other than English uses "49 €" form. So I guess, writing all currency signs before the number is pretty commonplace now, but that's probably because americans are notoriously, well, american-centric.

Hum... pretty sure that the Europeans are the exception in those. Majority of American and Asian countries use the currency symbol before the amount, Africans are split.

50:- or 50 kr is how 50 kronor is written in sweden (and probably all of scandinavia).

Oh, I didn't know that. Thank you!

Very cool, thank you for sharing

thanks :)

First of all, thank you for detailing all of that and for sharing here. And for all the work you've put in to this! And secondly I wanted to say that this

> but I ended up just creating minimal libraries for everything I normally would use a dependency for. My simplistic Markdown parser is around 150 lines, my Axios "clone" is just a small 100 line wrapper for fetch, my routing library is just matching the URL against my small list of path regexes and returning the corresponding component to render, etc.

is really cool to read as a frontend engineer.

I'm glad you're a fan too! Yeah, vanilla Javascript seems pretty powerful these days. If you don't care too much about backwards compatibility or supporting really old browsers then you can get a lot done with really thin wrappers tailored to your use case. I suppose time will tell whether or not it was the right decision, but in the meantime I really like the peace of mind from not having to rely on npm.

In my experience that's a less than frequent occurrence. I.e. I agree that there is a predominant voice here on HN (echo chamber) that lives to shut down (vote) other views

It's not a problem of amount of resources, it's how they're being used. Have you considered how much waste is produced daily, even just food waste? We all could be living luxuriously if we utilised efficient systems of food production and actually distributed food equally, as an example of just one small aspect.

I remember being a kid working at a bookstore with a cafe, and seeing a homeless man taking the sandwiches tossed out at the end of day from the trash and thinking it's a weird world where if that guy came in 10 minutes before closed and asked for that for free, they'd have to say no way, then ten minutes later they'd throw it in the trash with 4 others that didn't sell that day. I know there's all kinds of factors in play, but it's just weird to think about people being hungry in a world where we throw away so much food.

I recently set up Syncthing on my laptops and my phone. I have always edited my notes in plain text in Vim and dumbly I would email these to myself (and reply to the email) on my phone so I could access my notes when afk. But now that I have Syncthing and Markor (a markdown/text editor) on my phone, I feel like I am in note-taking bliss.

Or Huegelkultur

To your point, I would say that the machinery has a negligible impact compared to the benefits of permaculture, and if makes permaculture more productive without greater risk, then it seems good. That is, we shouldn't have some kind of Luddite purist view of permaculture - it should be practicable. Things like this help to break the stereotype that permaculture is just hippies chanting in a field that conventional agriculture proponents seem to believe and do perpetuate.

Affirmative, use the best tools for your context, especially when those tools were used to destroy the natural system that used to be there. (My land was filled with stone and gravel with 4-6 inches of soil ontop using machines...)

Use any means nessasary to move the current system into one that will self-renew and self replicate.

That's permaculture. Set into motion a permanent self-renewing system!

I mostly use it to save things to come back to (bookmark). It would be better if I could favorite from the main thread, rather than going to the individual comment's page to favorite.