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Reverse Engineering the DualShock 4

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Re: Reverse Engineering the DualShock 4

#13

Post by pvg »

maxbond wrote: post #9
oplaadpunt wrote: post #3

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Can we not critique pet peeves and nitpick style? This is how I interpret the guideline, "avoid generic tangents"; if critiquing the style of a piece doesn't help us to understand it better (as is sometimes the case, but isn't here), I don't think it's worth discussing on this forum (as it promotes snide conversation rather than curious conversation). In my experience working remotely, using lots of emoji is a profes…

Just flag that stuff, anything else mostly adds meta cruft.

Re: Reverse Engineering the DualShock 4

#15

Post by maxbond »

pvg wrote: post #13
maxbond wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Can we not critique pet peeves and nitpick style? This is how I interpret the guideline, "avoid generic tangents"; if critiquing the style of a piece doesn't help us to understand it better (as is sometimes the case, but isn't here), I don't think it's worth discussing on this forum (as it promotes snide conversation rather than curious conversation). In my experience working remotely, using lots of emoji is a profes…

Just flag that stuff, anything else mostly adds meta cruft.

If you feel I've decreased the SNR of the thread than I apologize, but when I have a good way to express the issue I have with something, I prefer to express it, for the benefit of the commenter & anyone else reading. I think that's more likely to reduce the rate of comments of this type.

Re: Reverse Engineering the DualShock 4

#17

Post by pvg »

maxbond wrote: post #15
pvg wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Just flag that stuff, anything else mostly adds meta cruft.

If you feel I've decreased the SNR of the thread than I apologize, but when I have a good way to express the issue I have with something, I prefer to express it, for the benefit of the commenter & anyone else reading. I think that's more likely to reduce the rate of comments of this type.

I think that's more likely to reduce the rate of comments of this type.

The unfortunate thing is, it doesn't reduce the rate. The downvotes and flags do, though - most people are pretty responsive to their comments getting nuked.

It won't happen to this emoji-comment but one of their extra-crappy side-effects is that sometimes they end up on the top of the thread and then all the explanations and exhortations to cut the crap end up eating up the page. This happens pretty regularly and then has to be cleaned up. It can't happen if the comment is sensibly flagged.

Re: Reverse Engineering the DualShock 4

#18

Post by somat »

1970-01-01 wrote: post #11

>And then, suddenly.. Caps Lock is blinking and the system is totally frozen :anguished:. So plugging in a brand-name joystick caused a kernel panic. Gross.

so... gross because sony should have better firmware or gross because linux should have a better usb stack, that is, it should never panic the kernel.

Re: Reverse Engineering the DualShock 4

#19

Post by maxbond »

pvg wrote: post #17
maxbond wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you feel I've decreased the SNR of the thread than I apologize, but when I have a good way to express the issue I have with something, I prefer to express it, for the benefit of the commenter & anyone else reading. I think that's more likely to reduce the rate of comments of this type.

I think that's more likely to reduce the rate of comments of this type. The unfortunate thing is, it doesn't reduce the rate. The downvotes and flags do, though - most people are pretty responsive to their comments getting nuked. It won't happen to this emoji-comment but one of their extra-crappy side-effects is that sometimes they end up on the top of the thread and then all the explanations and exhortations to cut…

Well, we can't really know if it does or doesn't reduce the rate (at least without more research than I am aware having been performed, and more than I'm willing to do), but I can only report that my own experience is that reading stuff like this as a lurker has been helpful for me. Given the choice and without the ability to know what is in people's hearts and whether or not I have moved them, I prefer optimism.

I'd propose these ideas are in tension but not contradiction, and that with you walking your path and me walking mine, the community as a whole benefits.

Re: Reverse Engineering the DualShock 4

#20

Post by pvg »

maxbond wrote: post #19
pvg wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think that's more likely to reduce the rate of comments of this type. The unfortunate thing is, it doesn't reduce the rate. The downvotes and flags do, though - most people are pretty responsive to their comments getting nuked. It won't happen to this emoji-comment but one of their extra-crappy side-effects is that sometimes they end up on the top of the thread and then all the explanations and exhortations to cut…

Well, we can't really know if it does or doesn't reduce the rate (at least without more research than I am aware having been performed, and more than I'm willing to do), but I can only report that my own experience is that reading stuff like this as a lurker has been helpful for me. Given the choice and without the ability to know what is in people's hearts and whether or not I have moved them, I prefer optimism. I'd…

I don't know about research but we certainly have a lot of evidence - people rarely have to explain to other users not to be rude jerks in comments, mainly because people know to flag them and the people who write them learn not to write them. This isn't really about optimism or pessimism but a critical component of the basic social immune system of the forum. You can see this expressed in an infinite stream of guideline-thumping mod comments:

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

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