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(and btw no chance of russians doing the same https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trolls_from_Olgino thing is there. Or those these https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Useful_idiot doing it for them)

> Imagine if the Soviet Union had made endless TV series and movies about the heroic deeds of the KGB

OK, where did I get it wrong.

cite?

> they have fantastic mazes of pathways and traps.

And they have guys in a cowboy hat with a whip collecting relics too. Probably. What traps? (edit: and mazes?)

If you're unaware of soviet/russian propaganda, that's quite an achievement. Really something.

The problem isn't DID or anything like that but a strange attitude that they want nice things but will put in zero effort to achieve that even if shown basic steps, and have a mindset that they're totally fucked, everything's against them, they can't win. It's a kind of learned helplessness.

I care. Wasting other people's resources is bad manners and contributes to a culture where waste is acceptable.

> waste of my time :/" is really toxic.

It was honest feedback. If others feel the same way the product marketing team is making a potentially serious mistake. Give me info, not anime android animations. It wasn't toxic.

> but you couldn't even get past a landing page because it had some gifs is really just your loss, not anybody else's.

If other people feel the same way, it very definitely stops being my problem and becomes the product's problem as people get turned off it. That was a core point you missed.

> could have linked you to https://docs.radicle.xyz/docs/what-is-radicle.html.

Why in your view was this not on the front page at the top?

(edit, and see this link & earlier reply https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25321788)

> but your comment ... but they aren't doing you justice

Thanks (genuinely) but I stand by this. It said what was wrong (IMO). it said what I wanted (again IMO), it was honest if blunt feedback the marketeers could use to decide if my point had merit (if they can admit they might have been wrong).

We differ but I appreciate your constructive feedback.

Why do you feel others are more qualified than you?

Why do you feel others can be more qualified in a subject that (so far) has a purely subjective interpretation?

Edit: perhaps more importantly, I have to gain a feeling for the product, to work out whether it's worth the perhaps nontrivial time evaluating it.

If I'm presented with this what it indicates to me, rightly or not, is that the product is image-led, the project is perhaps childish if the website is (clips from ghost in the shell?), fails to understand technical load (the website's bloated, what does it say about technical competence of the company) and whatever.

I don't care about corporate blandness, I need solid info, directly in front of me, and not having my eyes pulled away by flicker.

I could be completely getting the value of this project wrong but first impressions suggest I may well be wasting my time with it.

I guess that is the poster's point, that and helping people with more common sense avoid wasting their money.

You seem absolutely determined to be both resentful of society and completely powerless against it, and not willing to actually do anything to change anything?

Well, I was talking about smartphones so you seem to have moved the goalposts with your questions so that my answers don't apply -- deliberately, to emphasise helplessness?

But okay, let's try

> GPS chip in car

I don't know anything about this so, don't buy such a car. If you do, is the chip enabled without drivers control? I'd be surprised at that.

> License plate readers?

To some extent I guess these are necessary, but they are a usable so you have to deal with this at the level of government rather than directly.

> Face recognition cameras

This has to be tackled at the legal level, and yes, it does concern me. Fortunately in a democracy you have some say. Unfortunately I don't think you will make the effort.

> Chip in the credit card...

Oh for heaven's sake, it's not broadcasting your location it's RFID, and if you want to disable it you can find instructions online. You basically make a small cut into the side of the card which breaks the antenna loop (or whatever it's called). I literally have done that and it took me a few minutes.

> Friends with my phone that have your number

Is this a serious objection? They can't track you via somebody else's phone -- did you even think about this before writing it?

> ID cards that swept into places

This really is scraping the bottom of the barrel. I've had worked cards like this, they simply let you in and out little more than an old-fashioned metal key, with a record being made. You can't be tracked by them other than when swiped.

You seem to have embraced failure while resenting it but it's clearly what you want.

From my POV I too find it frustrating at times, but I'd say much of that comes quite unnecessarily not from JS use, but its abuse, eg. fails to display text unless JS is enabled. HTML is pretty good at that!

There's no point me boring you with all the plusses of not using js (just ask) but speed... once a connection is made this http://antirez.com/latest/0 is pretty much instantaneous.

(thanks for your reply)

I rarely carry my dumphone around, if someone needs me they can leave a message. That takes care of tracking by cell station.

There are times I'd like to have a dumphone on me, eg. when meeting people, so at some point I'll get dumphone #2 not linked to me.

If possible, pay cash rather than a credit card. I have done this before but in the uk this was getting more difficult and may not be possible, I don't know. There are always ways around that with grey areas.

At higher levels pressure your government or use the local regulations to push back when a company seems to be behaving unethically.

I'm sure there's more.

But convenience triumphs and all you can see is "I need smartphone". You won't do any of this. People who ask how will never do, or they wouldn't be asking the question to which the answer(s) are obvious.

One exception is having access to that data because I was working ON the prod server. Read that again. It was deeply uncomfortable to work like this. Very worrying every day.

You certainly can and do add logging, this can be useful.

That's a strange claim, in my work it's always been 100% data ops.

> “Letting people connect directly to the database is a madness” — yes it is.

why?

> Killing database by multiple connections from single network port is simply impossible in real life scenario. You will long run out of free ports

Depends entirely on the workload. And it's very possible. All too entirely so.

The one good project managers I've had that didn't have a dev background instead put in a lot of time to understand dev and was an at-home hobby programmer so he had a large clue.

I almost started laughing. There's no way a green youth can manage a software project without being a decent software dev first. Not happening.

It is possible to have a non-dev be one if they are very experienced and have the right soft skills, I knew one and he was good, but straight out of uni to manage a project, no way at all.

I am not fond of calling this stuff 'secret'.

> and make those decision individually

if you can somehow ensure people who get sick can't spread it, sure it's down to the individual, but it's a society-level problem. That's what "infectious" means.

And it also says "Charles Manson used what he learned from the book in prison to manipulate women into killing on his behalf" but I don't know if that can be blamed on the book.

Improving social skills and using them manipulatively are entirely different things. If you've ever known or worked with psychopaths you'll get that immediately. I suppose there's a continuum but still.

> No one is allowed to fail so nothing is discovered.

2nd para in wiki article: "It [ITER] is an experimental tokamak nuclear fusion reactor" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ITER) It is an experiment, it was never expected to have certain outcomes.You don't seem to understand that.

> And exactly how is superconductivity so very little understood?

That's not what I said. Here "when that tech (superconductivity) was so very little understood"

Note: 'was'. Not 'is'. (see edit below)

As for the progression in their understanding I'll leave that for a physicist to discuss. You aren't.

Edit: see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superconductivity#High-tempera... for a list of recent stuff (eg. last 15 years). And stop shouting about how stupid everyone else is.