crististm

I'm on a fuck off spree lately. So fuck off with what you think is important and not.

Do you feel woke? Fuck off.

Do you feel threatened? Fuck off.

Do you feel like an idiot? Fuck off.

Do you feel I'm having a bad day? Fuck off.

For the record. This post on Dr. Seuss has no place on HN. If it is allowed on HN but dissent ideas are not, then fuck off together with your woke HN points. I'm sick of idiots turned social warriors. Fuck off

And to those that are offended by fucks; fuck off as well.

That include anybody that cares to point me to HN guidelines. Have a nice weekend, but fuck off in the mean time

To those that find my comments offensive - fuck off

Nitpicking and a pet-peeve but Elon Musk is an African-American. You probably mean "black". They are not from Africa simply because they are black and for clarity we should stop being politically correct (especially when critical-race theory is so keen on language defining reality)

That would not happen in the America that we looked up at when I was a kid.

De-platforming for decades?

Either it will swing back or its momentum will topple the base with it.

We've seen revolutions before and they were not pretty.

When you read the Skunk Works book you stumble upon passages where the government has to pay for tools maintenance and storage after the project is complete.

Some bureaucrat entity always decides at some moment that paying for storage of an arbitrarily old project tooling is not worth it.

I don't know.

I think I replied to assimilation of the idea of totalitarian regime institutionalizing otherwise mentally healthy people for dissidence to merely not letting them vent on radio.

Indirect lines explaining seemingly unrelated concepts are everywhere. They even made some shows about that. However, linking these two particular concepts together is strange.

Yes but that won't stop you from drawing/rationalizing _any_ conclusions from a set of facts. Not all of them will be right and fewer even will make any sense.

Which is indeed your prerogative until you mess with the laws of physics and start believing that because you move your arms very quickly you can fly, and that will stop you from falling off of a cliff.

There is a five-whys strategy to go to some bottom of an issue but even this strategy will fail you when you cherry-pick the answers to your convenience.

How is that accurate? More, like, exaggerated to make a point but missing it by a mile.

Soviets did not give airtime to pro-party ideologues to validate their position. There was no competition between ideologues to get more airtime. The program was _dictated_ by the powers that be.

Ha, ha! Let me tell you what I think the Democrats believe. For one, that men can carry babies like in that Schwarzenegger movie!

Generalizations are useful until they aren't! Let's put our thinking hats for a sec don't you think?

What should we do about the 20%?

You make the argument against locking devices (which I agree with) for reasons related to that not deterring theft - which has a point.

Thieves will not profile a person using a premium locked phone against stealing it because it might not be worth it. They don't care about that. They will take whatever they can if only for practicing their skills.

Locking phones does not deter theft but unlocking them will offset the price of unlocking from the phone-shop to the thief increasing the profitability of theft.

I personally don't care about Apple, their phones, their M1's and their ecosystem. But acting out your premise leads to a place I don't like. And others as well. And if you think you can buy a cheaper premium phone if it is unlocked, ask yourself why thieves would continue to sell you cheaper if they know they give you a usable device?

Think of it as a 'fuck you' to the thief and whoever might get the brick. Maybe you get that, otherwise you can be bitter all you want about the inequality and how stealing will resolve that.

Yes. In a PC ecosystem this is true - physical access renders the machine in your control (modulo Intel Management System and other backdoor schemes).

For Apple, there is a different set of axioms and some people seem to agree with them.

IKEA catalog is like the "I'm feeling lucky' google button.

I guess we'll see soon what it means to get rid of it.

Yes. Some hard facts to knock that theory that today's computers are slow because they do a lot more stuff than 20 years ago.

No, they do a lot more of _nothing_. Something that would have been obvious and unacceptable on a 600MHz single core machine.

Yeah... No! I don't have an axe to grind here but indeed there are more than one way to compare a product.

Air debit is only one dimension. You can pick arbitrary dimensions to compare products depending on which one you want to (if you would) show preference to.

Did they check also the noise level? The dimensions? How long you can run the thing before changing the filters? Do they have some form of regulator or are they always on? Do they fall apart when you bump on them?

It's like comparing processors by their clock speed. Which one 'is outperformed' by the other?

I could think of several reasons why regulation would not be a good idea. Cutting into pieces? Maybe, but how would you cut pieces of FB or Amazon that credibly resolve the problem? Remember that lobbying for antitrust splits will be pursued by someone with enough political ambition to offset the pressure in a long run. What would be their benefit?

For now I think that voting with your feet is still a recourse, complemented by vocal messages on social media to maximize hit-back.

This is probably the only recourse in this new age of AI bots deciding human affairs:

- Seller is banned by an AI agent for arbitrary reasons. There is no reasonable phone recourse

- Seller tries to make a _human_ point in a blog post hoping it goes viral

- The blog post is noticed on different platforms and buzzword of AI wrong doing is amplified to a certain level

- If some arbitrary threshold of _human_ reaction is noticed on the social media, the company in the wrong will probably do something about its AI bot going haywire

Thus, the bot's common sense holes will be covered by collective wisdom of the crowds (which maybe, just maybe, will be integrated in the bot's training loop).

I was not entirely fair to you when trying to make my point. In fact I could see this exact argument of yours coming up and ignored it completely.

What I want to say is that there are entire domains of competence that are irrelevant to a large degree to doing the day's job. Knowing history of computing will not necessary help in making a better program in a way that can be noticed. But history of computing is closely related to computing. Unlike for example history of knitting. Although neither will make you a better programmer now, the first has much better chance at that than the second (although we don't exactly know that). Thus, when someone downplays the importance of history of programming to improving a programmer's mastery, I see it as touting ignorance at not seeing the connections between the two: self sufficiency, arrogance of ego being trapped by the light of today's fads, pop culture that doesn't care about the past or the future.

Or maybe I'm projecting...

What I see is not over-emphasizing the importance of history but de-emphasizing it as a justification for present day sufficiency.

If you don't like the term, use another one. But without history you're bound to cargo cult computer science where what you have to do next is plan your sprint. Why do you need a sprint anyway? You might never know if you need a sprint any more if you don't know what problem was it supposed to fix.

The disdain for history as an expression of you not knowing how to code wordpress is strange considering that, as you allude to, you don't know the latter.

You may want to think whether learning wordpress is the same with learning history of html at decade level.

Since you're publicly exposing your thoughts, let me tell you that what you are doing is expressing your ignorance and being proud of it. You may want to drop the second part.

So you lowered your bar huh? Who am I to judge, but I would have preferred a story with something more than the game is rigged and that's what I get to play with

Last time I checked, which was more than 5 years ago, non-corporation contributions to Linux amounted to less than 20% (with Greg H. pointing out that they needed to make life easier for those not-payed contributors).

This means among others that Linux is a Corporate based project and caters to those corporations with a leverage of at least 4/1 for closed binaries with GPL and contributors' voice compensating for the other side.

In the end this is what we have for better or worse.

This is not a one year problem. And it will stay that way because, as you know, HN is a corporation. Not a public forum.

Maintaining these rules allow dang@co to maintain the position of control over what happen in HN. The corollary is that changing them will dilute their control. They found a local maximum of discourse level and they keep it that way.

The justification that the discourse on HN is maintained at a high level by not talking about the rules is at least condescending to the participants.

It doesn't matter to them if they lose you on these grounds since talking about the rules appears only on extremes which are shallow in a normal distribution. They will lose the few participants that care enough about that while maintaining those in the middle. (Of course, cutting of the extremes will grow newer ones in the empty space but I digress...).

What happens with time is that people adjust their discourse to the middle ground making it void of any new or interesting information. Thus, HN becomes an echo chamber of mainstream ideas and people will leave when they got bored enough of the same thing. We're already there and @dang is more vocal now because he knows it.

2012 was five years behind AMD making the comeback. If they saw that far into the future and didn't do anything else in that timeframe then maybe firing him was not for missing the strategy.

Go pass the megaphone to your friends then