Comment by cptskippy
1 month ago
What a weirdly worded post. You could have said something like:
"Dell has priced it's Pro line of laptops in-line with Apple's Air equivalents, however Window 11's high resource utilization means we have to pay for higher spec machines while still ending up with reduced battery performance, and inferior screens, webcams and audio."
But instead you make weird misleading statements like "and 8 more gb of RAM" and "it's over $1100 a laptop" that need to be decoded but are easily misunderstood if the reader lacks certain domain knowledge.
Then you have these unqualified statements like "they also recently swapped to soldered RAM for both Intel and AMD" which implies that it's a bad move but don't articulate why or acknowledge that Apple has been doing this since 2008.
This is HN. I much prefer someone's raw, unfiltered words than ChatGPT generated legalese. I have enough of that nonsense at work.
Ask people to express coherent thoughts without a jargon barrier or epistemic exclusion as a form of gatekeeping your circle jerk is now considered "ChatGPT generated legalese"?
Nowhere in HN guidelines does it say "your comment must be coherent and should avoid using jargon". https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Meanwhile,
> Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive.
> When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names
Bro, this is HN where the are so many obscure acronyms, frameworks, random Saas providers assumed everyone knows. This isn't a site where discussion can break down to the level of detail you seem to want. It just needs to be on the level anyone who knows what an XPS even is can follow.
Thanks for the clarification Bro. I now realize that I've been using this site incorrectly for 15 years.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_from_authority
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