Why I quit this battle • Hacker News Board

Re: Why I quit this battle

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Post by progre » Thu, Apr 14, 2022, 3:36 AM UTC

twblalock wrote: post #24

Looking through the site and the history around it, the level of obsession, the conspiratorial thinking, the grandiose claims of "defeating" Intel -- this guy probably needs help with some mental health issues.

Center text. The mark of a man that has been pushed over the edge.

Re: Why I quit this battle

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Post by Frummy » Thu, Apr 14, 2022, 3:44 AM UTC

I don't know about the work he's been doing or what fight he's been part of. But the text itself seems bitter and psychotic, it's good that he leaves the battle behind and takes a break. I know that too much truth can be tough to handle, but don't singlehandedly try and fix the bad corners of the world. I'm just typing my honest opinion at risk of sounding insensitive, but it truly is great to just let go and move on.

Re: Why I quit this battle

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Post by nailer » Thu, Apr 14, 2022, 3:47 AM UTC

twblalock wrote: post #24

Looking through the site and the history around it, the level of obsession, the conspiratorial thinking, the grandiose claims of "defeating" Intel -- this guy probably needs help with some mental health issues.

It sounds like he changed how models are tested that stopped Intel doing it again. How is that not a victory?

Re: Why I quit this battle

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Post by artifact_44 » Thu, Apr 14, 2022, 3:48 AM UTC

Frummy wrote: post #32

I don't know about the work he's been doing or what fight he's been part of. But the text itself seems bitter and psychotic, it's good that he leaves the battle behind and takes a break. I know that too much truth can be tough to handle, but don't singlehandedly try and fix the bad corners of the world. I'm just typing my honest opinion at risk of sounding insensitive, but it truly is great to just let go and move on…

I disagree. That text doesn't sound psychotic to me.. bitter, yes.. but I think HN users are all too familiar with being passionate about an issue at the expense of personal time and other pursuits, and I respect that.

Re: Why I quit this battle

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Post by WaxedChewbacca » Thu, Apr 14, 2022, 3:50 AM UTC

twblalock wrote: post #24

Looking through the site and the history around it, the level of obsession, the conspiratorial thinking, the grandiose claims of "defeating" Intel -- this guy probably needs help with some mental health issues.

Nah. Or check your own eye for beams before speculating about motes in the eyes of others. "All progress depends on the unreasonable man."

Re: Why I quit this battle

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Post by walrus01 » Thu, Apr 14, 2022, 3:54 AM UTC

manacit wrote: post #29

I don't know the new context, but I will always be thankful to badmodems.com for highlighting the original Puma 6 issue. I was given a modem by my ISP that had a Puma 6 chipset and it was a nightmare - it would completely cut out multiple times per day, latency was all over the place, and it was a truly terrible experience. Doing a bit of digging I was able to short-circuit a lot of troubleshooting and replace the mo…

As an ISP anything that is a shared access, contended media like a copper coax segment (DOCSIS3) is a nightmare waiting to happen. The amount of problems that are caused by one person with a leaky/bad connector and line, or things that have gone screwed up at the RF modulation level of the cable plant between the cablemodems and the CMTS.

Imagine hundreds, or thousands of houses out there all with 25+ year old coax jacks in walls, 4-way splitters jammed into ceilings, leaky outdoor connectors that have been chewed on by squirrels, etc.

It's a miracle that DOCSIS3 works at all.

I'm vaguely familiar with the issue that the axe-grindy guy in the original webpage referenced here is complaining about, specific to some series of chipsets used by a popular cheap cablemodem for a few years of manufacturing run... But what he's found is actually a tip of an iceberg of terrible about why maintaining last-mile copper last wireline infrastructure (POTS wiring/DSL or coax for cablemodems) is a losing bet in the long run.

Re: Why I quit this battle

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Post by unixhero » Thu, Apr 14, 2022, 4:01 AM UTC

Why doesn't he instead get s job at a consumer watchdog agency to run these sorts of thing.

Re: Why I quit this battle

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Post by gennarro » Thu, Apr 14, 2022, 4:35 AM UTC

What would a domain like that be worth? The lack of the content seems like it would hurt the value considerably.

Re: Why I quit this battle

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Post by throwaway892238 » Thu, Apr 14, 2022, 4:39 AM UTC

"Flounce, v. To leave an internet group or thread with exaggerated drama; deleting posts, notifying mods and or group users, and cross-posting on other groups to draw attention to the drama. Comes from the original use of gathering up skirts and petticoats and leaving in dramatic, impatient and exaggerated movements." - https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Flounce

Re: Why I quit this battle

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Post by codr7 » Thu, Apr 14, 2022, 4:43 AM UTC

throwanem wrote: post #19

codr7 wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Semi-famous camera guy, read a few of his camera reviews. He seems to know what he's talking about, but is also invested enough to become a potential sell out.

You're thinking of Ken Rockwell.

Right, sorry, long time ago.