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Maybe this kind of delusional thinking is why he's no longer at NASA...

Ridiculing people who are worried about long term effects of something that has been in use for only a few years is such an HN thing. There's countless precedent for things once to…

> there were no functions and subroutines, just line numbers and goto. No while, no fors. Just ifs Your memory is a little hazy because the ZX Spectrum had both subroutines and for…

> "Stability" is lacking in video editors because none are written in Rust. And yet, somehow, all the pro editors manage to be fairly stable despite being written in C++ (or maybe …

What does 4+2 GB mean? I tried googling Redmi 4+2 GB but it only returns Redmi 4 from 2017 that has only 2GB of ram. Surely that's not what you're talking about?

> while unnecessarily degrading user experience across society? Does a shutter sound really degrades the experience unless you were indeed trying to take a stealth photo?

This has nothing to do with the article. He's just showing his poor lack of conversational skills, typical of the condition that makes him "superior".

When wahnfrieden receives ad-free video from YouTube, it is another form of welfare "freeloading". An adblocker is indifferent from a handout except by name.

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What are you talking about? The vast majority of people would rather disable their adblocker on YouTube then subscribe and pay $15 a month... How is it a dark pattern for YouTube t…

YouTube ruined the web by... Providing a free platform to host videos open to everybody? By allowing video creators to be paid?

Your own quote says 10GB from replit vs 1,000GB from digital ocean. So, assuming your own quote is correct, DO is indeed way cheaper for anything that is more than a toy.

They've been at it for over 40 years and grew to the most valuable company in the world. In many computer fields they still are THE platform (anything design for example) so clearl…

> With the page up and page down keys, mostly, There is NO way that most people used page up down rather than drag the scrollbar in the late 90s.

It doesn't share your cookies, that probably stops almost any leak. Then probably rules to filter out legacy ?sessid= ?sID=. Other than that I imagine it leaks things like /bank/ac…

You're right, YouTube ads are notorious for being JavaScript heavy and served by a third party.

Someone asks for a webpage and not only do you propose tmux, you also acknowledge it doesn't even do anything like what's asked. Typical Linux user.

I'm sure you're making a clever joke and I'm just not getting it. All Windows branded as NT as well as 2000 (the first NT not branded as such) predate Windows 8 by over a decade, s…

We're not taking issue with you calling it a fork, which it is. We're taking issue with you calling it an HOSTILE fork, which it isn't.

Electro convulsive therapy is still routinely performed when pharmaceutical options have been exhausted, and damaging the brain is the intent. I went through a few rounds myself in…

If what you said was true, we'd see the same poor quality in Samsung or Apple phones. Yet we don't.

In any other field, engineers would be held responsible and after so many "mistakes" they would lose their license. Software engineers will fight tooth and nails to keep their priv…

You wrote a very long and passionate love letter to the European process and how it's almost perfect. And yet all those chemicals are allowed in Europe. So what happened? Were they…

I understand not fully trusting docker, you have to trust several levels of kernel features and configuration, plus it shits all over your firewall like it owns the place. Real vir…