spacedcowboy

There are a wide variety of people in this world, and they don't all operate along your own norms, or mine, or <insert random cohort>. People can do as they please. Seems to work out mostly fine.

Comment · 1 day ago

shrug not really. There's lots of people, and lots of reasons why they individually might agree or disagree. Whereas I think I'm generally right on a lot of things, I'm not so arrogant as to believe I'm universally right, or that others might hold opposing views for completely valid reasons.

Downvoting is simply that, IMHO, nothing more and nothing less than "I disagree with you".

Comment · 1 day ago

Why will they reduce ? Are you suggesting that "I don't agree with this" shouldn't be a perfectly valid reason to downvote it ?

Unless someone is policing the downvote reasons and holding them to some academically or some other rigorous standard, "I think you're wrong" is ... just fine as a reason.

Comment · 1 day ago

Doesn't seem to work in the UK...

Comment · 1 day ago

Force someone to justify a downvote and you'll get some useful feedback. You'll also likely get a 'because your mom' bunch, unless you annotate the downvote with the username downvoting, and that's a big leap and would discourage downvotes.

Downvotes are a useful tool. If you can only ever upvote something, that is when the site-value is vulnerable to brigading - HN is probably not interested in lowering the signal-to-noise if farming accounts to upvote (and only upvote) is an option.

Also, a lot of downvoting on the internet is just "I disagree with you", or "I don't like what you're saying". It can be personal, and not necessarily useful to the original poster.

In other words, I disagree with you. Though I won't downvote (flag, I guess on posts) you. This time :)

[aside: I'm not some apologist for HN. I'd love to post my own pet-project [1] but I've linked to it too often in posts where I though it was relevant, and now HN won't accept any post with that URL. Caught by my own ignorance and actions, but it's still their right to run their site as they see fit]

1: (I'm assuming that HN-links are ok :) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50151036#50151160

Comment · 2 days ago

Hey, thanks :)

It’s nice to get some appreciation for once, rather than an “ai; dr” response :)

Comment · 3 days ago

Its the same in the UK, except in £ - and yes I know that's with VAT included, but it's still an outrageous ripoff.

Apple charge £4000 to go from 96GB to 256GB, and then an extra £11,500 to go from 256GB to 512GB. There's "Apple tax" on memory, and then there's this. £11,500 is pretty much the cost of another high-end Mac Studio with 256GB of RAM in it!

So I guess even though I'd considered getting a 512GB machine, that's not happening now.

Comment · 3 days ago

I got the kit at 11 for Xmas. I still remember one of the jokes in the manual…

“How many legs has a horse ?”

‘6, 2 legs at the back and forelegs in front’.

Comment · 4 days ago

Oh to be young again. I use a 43" Samsung TV at 4K. That works for me. The 32" 4K monitor next to it I run at 2560x1440, you know, so I can read it...

Comment · 5 days ago

This article seems a little self-congratulatory to me. I left the USA for the UK (on July 4th, funnily enough) last year, and have no intention of ever returning.