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I think this stands without being a reference
by j_koreth 11y ago
I think this stands without being a reference
- banku_brougham 11y agoNon-tech people read this site too. What % of the general population knows what sudo is? My auto-correct changes 'sudo' to 'Audi'. The real problem is that the xkcd reference doesn't explain what sudo means.
- extesy 11y agoThere's a site dedicated to explaining various xkcd: https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/149:_Sandwich https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/149:_Sandwich
- thesimpsons1022 11y agowe shouldn't be explaining something using the xkcd which doesn't illuminate the topic at all and further needs to be explained.
- techabuse 11y agoOh boy. Turtles all the way down.
- taylorwc 11y agoYou're right that a tiny portion of the general population would know what sudo is, but surely among HN readers there is a huge base that would understand, or at least grok what it is after a quick search. Not advocating that HN isn't for non-tech-people, just saying that neither the reference nor the xkcd were out of place for this audience.
- crucialfelix 11y agoThis is tech site. If you are see something you don't understand, you should just google it. As a tech person I encounter things every day that I don't know about, and I google many of them. Why should "non-tech" people be protected from the chore of googling ? Isn't that why people come here – to encounter things that they don't know about ?
- banku_brougham 11y agoNot trying to "protect" anyone. Thing is, even googling sudo doesn't give someone who has never sudo'ed the insight behind the comic. So, yep.