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Thank you. I appreciate the comment. It's just frustrating that knee-jerk reactions are ubiquitous in the Hacker News comments, on every popular submission, de

• stasomatic 26d ago
  In my case, this forum is habit forming to engage in the comment section. If a post has enough comments, to me it signals it's an interesting topic, never mind if I don't know anything about the subject matter, there might be very smart folks sharing knowledge. Comments can veer wildly off the original topic and I find that also appealing. This is "unfair" to the submitted post, of course, but ... HN is still here. Now back to hdiutil.
  • lapcat 26d ago
    > Comments can veer wildly off the original topic I'm not complaining about tangents, though, but rather about dismissive insults. A tangent is a conversation starter, whereas a knee-jerk dismissal is a conversation stopper.