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Maybe this kind of delusional thinking is why he's no longer at NASA...

Ridiculing people who are worried about long term effects of something that has been in use for only a few years is such an HN thing.

There's countless precedent for things once touted as being safe to turn out incredibly damaging. We just don't know the long term effect yet. Please spare me with the "but there's no mechanism for it to do harm!!!!!" the same was said for all the other drugs that ended up causing cancer or malformed babies and were only pulled from the market after decades of "nutjobs" being dismissed for suggesting a link.

> there were no functions and subroutines, just line numbers and goto. No while, no fors. Just ifs

Your memory is a little hazy because the ZX Spectrum had both subroutines and for loops (I believe all Sinclair machines did).

> "Stability" is lacking in video editors because none are written in Rust.

And yet, somehow, all the pro editors manage to be fairly stable despite being written in C++ (or maybe obj-c in the case of final cut pro and iMovie)

Maybe you should do some introspection as to why that is, instead of blaming the language used.

PS: blender's NLE is possibly the most stable of the open-source ones and it's written in C. Maybe that's a hint? Maybe the answer is good leadership and high quality contributors?

What does 4+2 GB mean? I tried googling Redmi 4+2 GB but it only returns Redmi 4 from 2017 that has only 2GB of ram. Surely that's not what you're talking about?

> while unnecessarily degrading user experience across society?

Does a shutter sound really degrades the experience unless you were indeed trying to take a stealth photo?

This has nothing to do with the article. He's just showing his poor lack of conversational skills, typical of the condition that makes him "superior".

When wahnfrieden receives ad-free video from YouTube, it is another form of welfare "freeloading". An adblocker is indifferent from a handout except by name.

What are you talking about? The vast majority of people would rather disable their adblocker on YouTube then subscribe and pay $15 a month... How is it a dark pattern for YouTube to suggest the most likely option?

YouTube ruined the web by... Providing a free platform to host videos open to everybody? By allowing video creators to be paid?

Your own quote says 10GB from replit vs 1,000GB from digital ocean.

So, assuming your own quote is correct, DO is indeed way cheaper for anything that is more than a toy.

They've been at it for over 40 years and grew to the most valuable company in the world. In many computer fields they still are THE platform (anything design for example) so clearly the software they do have is plenty.

Can you elaborate what you mean by shooting themselves in the foot?

Do you see them as a centipede who sacrificed one foot in exchange for all the riches in the world?

Or do you mean that if they were more open to developers they'd somehow be even bigger? What's bigger than a trillion dollar company? Would they be intergalactic?

> With the page up and page down keys, mostly,

There is NO way that most people used page up down rather than drag the scrollbar in the late 90s.