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Seems like a collection of personal tech notes that just trails off at the end, as one would expect from active notes. Why is this interesting to post here?
by bowsamic 4y ago
Seems like a collection of personal tech notes that just trails off at the end, as one would expect from active notes. Why is this interesting to post here?
- bayindirh 4y agoBecause it's a living document about one's experiences. This is a potentially great future document, and a good knowledge base, if the whole information extracted and grouped under sections. Also it shows the progression of feelings, and how things done in a relatively less used operating system. I don't think we need to put frames around what is interesting and worthy and whatnot. Lastly, the perspective got me by surprise: - Ah just edit this file, then use this convoluted command and, you're on the internet. Ah, static IPs doesn't work, but at least DHCP works. Just this perspective shows how we as humans get fixated to our ways and don't see the complexity inside the things we do. Also, it highlights how many cogs we align to make a system work, and we just underrate the required effort as "Just spend 4-8 hours to set this up properly, eh?". I think I can go for more, but that's enough.
- bowsamic 4y agoDid you notice it totally dropped off the front page? There's a reason for that
- bayindirh 4y agoSorry, I don't follow post lifetimes. It was interesting enough for me. However, I want to quote some parts of the guidelines. > Eschew flamebait. Avoid unrelated controversies and generic tangents. > Please don't complain that a submission is inappropriate. If a story is spam or off-topic, flag it. Don't feed egregious comments by replying; flag them instead. If you flag, please don't also comment that you did. > Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading. Have a nice day.
- bowsamic 4y agoTry reposting it once it is complete
- jgilias 4y agoThere are a lot of posts that don't make it to the frontpage. Only the ones that 'we' as a community reading this forum find interesting do. Sometimes one has to accept that 'the community' might value one or another thing differently than the individual. I, for one, find it interesting from the perspective of someone who has thought about giving BSD a spin, but never has.
- quadrifoliate 4y agoFrom the HN guidelines [1]: > On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity. I think the submission qualifies. > Please don't complain that a submission is inappropriate. If a story is spam or off-topic, flag it. Don't feed egregious comments by replying; flag them instead. If you flag, please don't also comment that you did. Ironically, your comment probably goes against the guidelines though; and mine's probably not great, either. The overall idea seems to be "not too much meta discussion". ---------------------------------------- [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html