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I like the idea, and your website looks great. What would you do differently if you had to redo it?

> - Laying off 25% of their engineers If Firefox need to cut costs to survive, this is part of keeping Firefox working for us. > - Sending all of your browsing history to Cloudflar…

> You’re implying that the impact only matters if it is direct. No, I acknowledge and want to account for indirect effects. I just want to hold ourselves to empirical evidence, not…

They are anti-reality. They are a net negative in our efforts to contain a highly contagious virus. I can see why you are scornful of them. But that doesn't make them a significant…

I agree it will have had some effects, both directly and indirectly. It's not clear to me how significant the effects are. Granted, we have to act on imperfect information at times…

How much has anti-mask protesters contributed to the surge? They got a lot of coverage in [social] media, but what's the marginal impact they have, given their frequency? It's impo…

Perhaps so, but none of this is relevant to jgraettinger1's subthread.

Let's keep political cheerleading off HN.

First they laughed...

Ah, that makes sense. I can see why that would be useful.

+1 to software/hardware necromancy. How does a Linux port make it easier to port emulators or console games? Is this a step towards getting an N64 on a modern (?) stack like qemu+l…

When taking advice from people, I weigh it by how much I want aspects of their lives The Lesswrong community live in a narrow rationalist bubble.

Any justification for that? IME, the point free style is aesthetic.

What are your thoughts on the Pinephone? What would a reasonable goal for success look like? How can it be achieved? What would cause it to fail?

> It seems like management is the same almost everywhere. Bad. If you perceive almost all management is bad, perhaps your standards are unrealistically high. I don't mean that in a…

If I had worked for months doing overtime only for the game to be released before it was ready, and seen the reaction it has got, I'd be frustrated.

One person's "bloat and inefficiency" is another person's "features at low cost". We simply wouldn't have the services we have today at their low price if our hardware didn't offer…

Is that an accurate tl;dr? "As part of an ongoing migration of the User ID Service to a new quota system, a change was made in October to register the User ID Service with the new …

The Big Bang Theory exhibited this quickly.

+1 https://github.com/joaotavora/eglot is developed by a core Emacs developer who plans to mainline it. It works great.

You're questioning the doom narrative.

Different people have different specialisms, and they each have their own goals.

Analogies aren't meant to withhold careful scrutiny. They're suggestive.

I wasn't commenting on expected outcomes of their behaviour, just that I think it's a bit of a jump say to they are "rude and abrasive " in general.

Experiencing marginalisation is frustrating, and frustrated people sometimes have outbursts. I don't think we can infer much from a few highly publicised events.