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Reasonably politely pushing back on these has got my post not only downvoted to oblivion (after upvotes) but then flagged (!!) while of course the guy who was abusive in return, no…

Each of these points are false in my opinion but I genuinely do not understand why you think I'd continue to engage with you after you condescend with that ludicrious 'garbage in g…

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I am writing a book I intend to release commercially, and a good sized one at that (likely 1,500 pages+). I am absolutely stubbornly determined to release it as both print and DRM-…

Not out for a long while yet, but https://linuxmemory.org/ :)

That it wasn't completely insane to write a book on the linux memory manager.

Incredible work! I'm writing my own book (obligatory mailing list link [0] and description [1]) and I wondered how you tackled the mental side? It is a bit of a rollercoaster I am …

This really chimes with me, I'm writing a book about the Linux memory management subsystem [0] and my primary motivation is to learn the subject more deeply and what Paul says here…

You do realise there are countless people who have 'read the papers and thought about the conflicting evidence' about climate change right? The reality is unfortunately that these …

No, you literally said 'all his claims are facts until proven otherwise'. I am not being vague, I literally posted a link to a rebuttal thread. This is why I don't post on hacker n…

The 'counter' is incredibly weak sauce and she's been rebutted several times. Again, as I said, if you just ignore rebuttals you can keep acting like you have a point. The second p…

Ah I expected to get downvoted into oblivion, I know it's a cliche to say it but HN isn't what it once was. A key point to take away is that the fact there are 2 lineages means tha…

'Claims are facts until proven otherwise' is quite the take, I think Karl Popper would take issue with that. I linked a thorough thread from a domain expert explaining in detail wh…

There is now evidence firmly against lab leak and firmly in favour of natural origins, covered in depth by a domain expert here - https://twitter.com/angie_rasmussen/status/1551937…

This is not evidence. It's hand waving 'how do you explain' stuff that has been addressed many times by experts in the field. No credible evidence whatsoever has been presented. If…

The problem with this is it is full of utterly debunked nonsense that Ebright knows full well has been addressed. It's Brandolini's law [0] in action, and no matter how many times …

Interesting this came out just as I rejigged and updated a visualisation tool I made a decade ago (!) which shows sorting algorithms in a really pretty rainbow colour form. I think…

This reminds me somewhat of golang - ostensibly open source project but in reality all meaningful decisions are made by those at the company (including shameful throwing away of co…

As somebody who has started collecting ultima box sets recently (pure nostalgia loved them as a kid) it's been mad to see how ultima 5 has gone from £50 when I bought it a few year…

I am at the start of writing a book and had some major freeze at the start before, much like the author here, realised that all that matters is that I write the damn thing. I love …

While I agree in spirit with your point that being true to yourself is very important, as somebody who's been consistently honest (over ~15 years or so career) I'm afraid I think y…

You are taking out the human element of a bad manager wanting revenge for you bad-mouthing them. You might say 'well it's not professional to do that!', however a well motivated ma…

As somebody who works in London, you are right that infra is much better here than at least some places in the US (was shocked when I visited Austin) but the commute is brutal, ove…

>huge companies do not make changes like this purely on the basis of newspaper columns. The same newspaper ran similar tactics against YouTube which resulted in colossal changes. T…