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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

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.

gigatexal 11mo ago
Exactly! I didn’t know macOS ships JQ or the uuidgen tool. Very cool
_kb 11mo ago
Or more abstractly: post anything to the internet and people will always detail how you’re wrong. Sometimes that can be useful.
- byryan 11mo ago
  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.
  - bdangubic 11mo ago
    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”
    - byryan 11mo ago
      Yea I don't particularly mind it, just an interesting thing about HN compared to many other forums.
      - Schiphol 11mo ago
        *fora
        deleted 11mo ago
        [deleted]
  - gaudystead 11mo ago
    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.
    - password4321 11mo ago
      And the worst of it gets flagged and even dead-ed so most skip it after a bit, as I assumed would happen recently https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45649771 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45649771
      - imcritic 11mo ago
        Yes, flagging mechanism on HN is evil.
        kergonath 11mo ago
        It’s a blunt tool, but quite useful for posts. I read most dead posts I come across and I don’t think I ever saw one that was not obviously in violation of several guidelines. OTOH I don’t like flagging stories because good ones get buried regularly. But then HN is not a great place for peaceful, nuanced discussion and these threads often descend into mindless flame wars, which would bury the stories even without flagging. So, meh. I think flagging is a moderately good thing overall but it really lacks in subtlety.
        freedomben 11mo ago
        Agreed, flagging for comments seems to function pretty well for the most part, and the vouch option provided a recourse for those that shouldn't have been killed. On stories however, I think the flag system is pretty broken. I've seen so many stories that get flagged because people find them annoying (especially AI-related things) or people assume it will turn into a flame war, but it ends up burying important tech news. Even if the flags are reversed, the damage is usually done because the story fell off the front page (or further) and gets very little traction after that.
  - Mawr 11mo ago
    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.
- inanutshellus 11mo ago
  This is, incidentally, codified as Cunningham's Law. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Cunningham%27s_Law https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Cunningham%27s_Law ...aaand less directly (though referenced in the wikipedia article)... https://xkcd.com/386/ https://xkcd.com/386/
- mlrtime 11mo ago
  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.
dylan604 11mo ago
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
t_mahmood 11mo ago
> 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.

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.

gigatexal 11mo ago

Exactly! I didn’t know macOS ships JQ or the uuidgen tool. Very cool

_kb 11mo ago

Or more abstractly: post anything to the internet and people will always detail how you’re wrong. Sometimes that can be useful.

byryan 11mo ago
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.
- bdangubic 11mo ago
  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”
  - byryan 11mo ago
    Yea I don't particularly mind it, just an interesting thing about HN compared to many other forums.
    - Schiphol 11mo ago
      *fora
      - deleted 11mo ago
        [deleted]
- gaudystead 11mo ago
  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.
  - password4321 11mo ago
    And the worst of it gets flagged and even dead-ed so most skip it after a bit, as I assumed would happen recently https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45649771 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45649771
    - imcritic 11mo ago
      Yes, flagging mechanism on HN is evil.
      - kergonath 11mo ago
        It’s a blunt tool, but quite useful for posts. I read most dead posts I come across and I don’t think I ever saw one that was not obviously in violation of several guidelines. OTOH I don’t like flagging stories because good ones get buried regularly. But then HN is not a great place for peaceful, nuanced discussion and these threads often descend into mindless flame wars, which would bury the stories even without flagging. So, meh. I think flagging is a moderately good thing overall but it really lacks in subtlety.
        freedomben 11mo ago
        Agreed, flagging for comments seems to function pretty well for the most part, and the vouch option provided a recourse for those that shouldn't have been killed. On stories however, I think the flag system is pretty broken. I've seen so many stories that get flagged because people find them annoying (especially AI-related things) or people assume it will turn into a flame war, but it ends up burying important tech news. Even if the flags are reversed, the damage is usually done because the story fell off the front page (or further) and gets very little traction after that.
- Mawr 11mo ago
  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.
inanutshellus 11mo ago
This is, incidentally, codified as Cunningham's Law. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Cunningham%27s_Law https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Cunningham%27s_Law ...aaand less directly (though referenced in the wikipedia article)... https://xkcd.com/386/ https://xkcd.com/386/
mlrtime 11mo ago
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.

dylan604 11mo ago

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

t_mahmood 11mo ago

> 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.