Comment by tester457
1 year ago
I am not the author, but my bet is that he didn't know of its existence.
The best part about sharing your config or knowledge is that someone will always light up your blind spots.
1 year ago
I am not the author, but my bet is that he didn't know of its existence.
The best part about sharing your config or knowledge is that someone will always light up your blind spots.
> The best part about sharing your config or knowledge is that someone will always light up your blind spots.
Yes! I will take this as a chance to thank every people who shared their knowledge on the Internet. You guys are so freaking awesome! You are always appreciated.
A big chunk of my whole life's learning came from all the forums that I used to scour through, hours after hour! Because these awesome people always sharing their knowledge, and someone adding more. That's what made Internet, Internet. And all is now almost brink of loss, because of greedy corporates.
This habit also helped me with doom-scrolling. I sometimes, do doomscroll, but I can catch it quickly and snap out of it. Because, my whole life, I always jumped in to the rabbit holes, and actually read those big blog posts, where you had those `A-ha` moments, "Oohh, I can use that", "Ahh, that's clever!".
When, browsing, do not give me that, by brain actually triggers, "What are you doing?"
Later, I got lazy, which I am still paying for. But I am going to get out of it.
Never stop jumping into those rabbit holes!! Well, obviously, not always it's a good rabbit hole, but you'll probably come out wiser.
Or more abstractly: post anything to the internet and people will always detail how you’re wrong. Sometimes that can be useful.
That seems to be especially true on HN. Other forums there is some of that as well, but HN it seems nearly every single comment section is like 75% (random number) pointing out faults in the posted article.
Although I normally loathe pedantic assholes, I've found the ones on HN seem to be more tolerable because they typically know they'll have to back up what they're saying with facts (and ideally citations).
I've found that pedantic conversations here seem to actually have a greater potential for me to learn something from them than other forums/social platforms. On other platforms, I see someone providing a pedantic response and I'll just keep moving on, but on HN, I get curious to not only see who wins the nerd fight, but also that I might learn at least one thing along the way. I like that it's had an effect on how I engage with comment sections.
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I find that endearing for two reasons:
- either critique is solid and I learn something
- or commenter is clueless which makes it entertaining
there is very seldom a “middle”
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That's a sampling bias. You're not seeing the opinions of every single person who has viewed an article, just the opinions of those who have bothered to comment.
People who agree with an article will most likely just upvote. Hardly anyone ever bothers to comment to offer praise, so most comments that you end up seeing are criticisms.
True true, one of my favorite things is watching the shorts on home improvement or 'hacks' and sure enough there is always multiple comments saying why it won't work and why its not the right way. Just as entertaining as the video.
This is, incidentally, codified as Cunningham's Law.
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Cunningham%27s_Law
...aaand less directly (though referenced in the wikipedia article)...
https://xkcd.com/386/
Exactly! I didn’t know macOS ships JQ or the uuidgen tool. Very cool
also possible (even though I've seen the author's response to not knowing) is that the scripts were written before native was included. at that point, the muscle memory is just there. I know I have a few scripts like that myself