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by qualitytime 3167 days ago
First, my HDMI port blows up and have to work on a small laptop screen.

And now I can't access my repositories..

Not happy.

5 comments

I'll up the ante, there is a hurricane in Ireland.
And you started a lousy off-topic thread where you and others are competing to complain about downvoting and the weather.
Yikes. What happened to the HDMI port, out of curiosity?

And I presume macOS? If Linux, X11 can do some interesting hacks with scaling and panning. (`xrandr --output ____ --scale` and `xrandr --output ____ --panning`)

Downvote? Even more miserable.
This is why it is important to keep backups of backups ^.^

EDIT: I upvoted you twice, HN just loves to downvote anything ;)

When you have to painstakingly earn the right to downvote, you just can't feel bad about using it once in a while.
Hi, I've always been curious what the quota/threshold is. My last account (i336_) got to 1000+ (before I accidentally locked it...) and I never saw the downvote button. Is it like 10,000 or something?
Either they tweak the threshold over time, or there are other factors than karma. I'm sure I gained a downvote button well before 1000. I don't think it's particularly useful -- I only use it when I think a comment isn't worth reading at all. I usually upvote people when I think they're wrong, so we can have an interesting discussion.
Your user page shows you how much karma you need to hit the next level. In your case, you need 172 to downvote comments. https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=exikyut
Really? I don't see that, I just see a karma level.
I had no idea! Thanks for the pointer. There are more levels?
I don't know. Maybe at 1,000,000,000 you become CEO of ycombinator.
It's 500 last time I heard, but you don't get a downvote button on every comment.

And there is no downvote button on posts (or if it is, I haven't reached that threshold yet.)

I think I got it around 500~. There could be a manual component to it?