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some of us post hn comments containing analyses of source code from early versions of unix, results from tracing the execution of uxn 'left' and other text editors to estimate their power usage https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40842397, overviews of the historical development of cpu architecture https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40983675, simple explanations of the role that digital signal processing plays in modern mixed-signal systems https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40985558, quantitative analyses of the economic and technological impact of the renewable energy transition https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40725765 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40724305, assembly-language programs to clarify the role of associative arrays in computing https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40990055, analyses of mostly forgotten programming languages that python evolved from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40992191, examples of how to use the gnu units program for all kinds of things most people didn't know it could do https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36988917, comparative benchmarks of different compilers and interpreters https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40960819, system call traces to elucidate subtle concurrency bugs in unix https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40955923, close readings of federal court rulings placing them in historical context https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40950806, gui libraries we wrote ourselves https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40942566, simple workarounds for frustrating unix problems https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40911681, appreciation for others https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40950084, recipes for video streaming from the command line https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40911239, admissions of error with reproducible scripts for clearly showing we were wrong https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40912051, helpful tips for everyday command-line usage https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40910845, thanks to others for correcting our errors https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40911035, quantitative analyses of cutting-edge hardware https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40903708, admissions of error in our analyses of chinese export-control regulations https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40885691, simple explanations of cutting-edge computer security research https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40885329 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40841095, simple explanations of cutting-edge software testing tools https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40879952, and implementations in three lines of forth of things people think are impossible in forth https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40868981

and some of us say things like 'thats idiotic because thats 7000 years away'

these are two different kinds of discourse, and this website is only for one of them