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> But presumably nobody that ignorant is participating in this discussion. Perhaps not, but maybe not even fair to categorize it as ignorance. Many techies wil
by HarHarVeryFunny 2y ago
> But presumably nobody that ignorant is participating in this discussion.
Perhaps not, but maybe not even fair to categorize it as ignorance. Many techies will have only grown up in the web era and therefore think that web-pages and smartphone apps are the internet. How many have used an NNTP client, or even know what one was.
Are you a bot? Your response and five-digit dates are distinctly odd ...
- kragen 2y agoSomeone who doesn't know the difference between the WWW and the internet isn't yet a "techie". At some point in your journey to being a techie, you have to notice that when your home internet connection goes out or your Android is on a network that "can't provide IP", you can't connect to Minecraft servers, make calls on a SIP phone, torrent, chat on WhatsApp, or play Xbox Live. I'm not a bot. It is true that it would be more normal to respond to your comment with personal attacks or poorly thought out non sequiturs rather than reading through meeting notes from the late 01970s to find out what the truth was, then admitting I was wrong. This abnormality is why people often respond to my HN comments by saying things like https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43494574 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43494574: "This kind of comment is the reason I come to HN. Thank you for taking the time to share your knowledge with us." I wish more people were abnormal in this way. Normality is by definition mediocre; excellence is therefore both abnormal and an act of dissent, conscious or unconscious. Dare to be abnormal.
- drivers99 2y agoOn 5-digit years and Y10K compliance https://longnow.org/ideas/long-now-years-five-digit-dates-and-10k-compliance-at-home/ https://longnow.org/ideas/long-now-years-five-digit-dates-an...