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597 points classichasclass | 1 comments | 25 Aug 25 04:23 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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lwansbrough ◴[25 Aug 25 05:55 UTC] No.45010657[source]▶
We solved a lot of our problems by blocking all Chinese ASNs. Admittedly, not the friendliest solution, but there were so many issues originating from Chinese clients that it was easier to just ban the entire country.

It's not like we can capitalize on commerce in China anyway, so I think it's a fairly pragmatic approach.

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sugarpimpdorsey ◴[25 Aug 25 06:18 UTC] No.45010787[source]▶
There's some weird ones you'd never think of that originate an inordinate amount of bad traffic. Like Seychelles. A tiny little island nation in the middle of the ocean inhabited by... bots apparently? Cyprus is another one.

Re: China, their cloud services seem to stretch to Singapore and beyond. I had to blacklist all of Alibaba Cloud and Tencent and the ASNs stretched well beyond PRC borders.

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johnisgood[dead post] ◴[25 Aug 25 08:27 UTC] No.45011573[source]▶
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lmz ◴[25 Aug 25 09:49 UTC] No.45012086[source]▶
> be a hero and die a martyr

I believe it's "an hero".

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mnw21cam ◴[25 Aug 25 10:01 UTC] No.45012176[source]▶
Uh, no, it's definitely not. Hero begins with a consonant, so it should be preceded by "a", not "an".
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nailer ◴[25 Aug 25 10:25 UTC] No.45012316[source]▶
Welcome to British English. The h in hero isn’t pronounced, same as hospital, so you use an before it.
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tmp123456au ◴[25 Aug 25 10:47 UTC] No.45012452[source]▶
This is wrong.

Unless maybe you're from the east end of london.

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nailer ◴[25 Aug 25 11:05 UTC] No.45012543[source]▶
I’m not claiming everyone pronounces it that way. But he’s an ero, we need to find an ospital, ninety miles an our. You will find government documents and serious newspapers that refer to an hospital.
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1. ralferoo ◴[25 Aug 25 13:01 UTC] No.45013390{3}[source]▶
Likewise, when I was at school, many of my older teachers would say things like "an hotel" although I've not heard anyone say anything but "a hotel" for decades now. I think I've heard "an hospital" relatively recently though.

Weirdly, in certain expressions I say "before mine eyes" even though that fell out of common usage centuries ago, and hasn't really appeared in literature for around a century. So while I wouldn't have encountered it in speech, I've come across enough literary references that it somehow still passed into my diction. I only ever use it for "eyes" though, never anything else starting with a vowel. I also wouldn't use it for something mundane like "My eyes are sore", but I'm not too clear on when or why I use the obsolete form at other times - it just happens!