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> How cute. /s

> EDIT: Lol! Author has completely replaced erroneous explanation with correct explanation, including link to seminal paper about packet switching. Good.

Don't be a jerk. Being right doesn't give you the right to make fun of people.

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Noted. I find the over-confidence over a completely imagined issue funny and interesting. I make that mistake too. It's always interesting to do a post-mortem: why was I so confident? how did I miss the correct answer? I respect the author for doing such a fast turn around :)

Good to know that your intent wasn't malicious, but fwiw, I also didn't find the tone particularly appropriate for HN, either.

The hardware world is full of this.

I think because in the hardware world the cost for being wrong is so much higher since you can’t push out an over the air update or update your saas or whatever. So if you don’t know you stay quiet instead of being wrong.

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