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mnsc commented on I'm just having fun   jyn.dev/i-m-just-having-f... · Posted by u/lemper
disruptiveink · 7 days ago
If you purposely go into your phone settings and turn off auto-capitalization (which is what the kids do, since they're all typing on their phones), isn't it the very definition of pretentiousness? You're going into extra trouble to signify you're part of a clique, while feigning "laid-backness" and "i dont even care bro".

But you do care. You care so much to project your appearance of being cool and that you don't even care that you go through extra trouble to keep it up, even though paradoxically it would be LESS effort to not do it.

mnsc · 7 days ago
I think you are reading to much into kids trying to break norms and trying to be "part of a clique". It's not pretentiosness, it's part of finding yourself. They are also actively trying to get you to not read them because you are old and think they "are not serious" so mission accomplished I guess. And time will tell if these kids will invent something you have to respect. (Spoiler alert, we did and they will to)
mnsc commented on I'm just having fun   jyn.dev/i-m-just-having-f... · Posted by u/lemper
RagnarD · 7 days ago
When did this writing with no capitalization start to become a thing? I'm seeing it too often now. It's pretentious crap and quickly leads to me thinking that the writer doesn't want to be taken seriously, so why read it?
mnsc · 7 days ago
I read the whole thing without seeing it. But I also fail to see how you marry "pretentious" with not wanting to be taken seriously. So maybe it's me.
mnsc commented on Collaboration sucks   newsletter.posthog.com/p/... · Posted by u/Kinrany
codegeek · 2 months ago
"Unfortunately for me, not all collaboration can be rooted out, and even I will admit that some collaboration is useful. Ian and Andy edited this newsletter after all."

So "good" collaboration does work. It is just that the post is talking about things that are not really true collaboration and those should be avoided. Title is click bait but posthog is famous for these.

mnsc · 2 months ago
But the click bait was conceived and written super fast by a daring driver!
mnsc commented on Way past its prime: how did Amazon get so rubbish?   theguardian.com/technolog... · Posted by u/sandebert
p1dda · 3 months ago
Amazon was simply superb in the early 2000 which made them so popular and dominating that most people will still buy from them even if they are rubbish and predatory. Why should they improve when people use them anyway?
mnsc · 3 months ago
You should read the article. :)
mnsc commented on Way past its prime: how did Amazon get so rubbish?   theguardian.com/technolog... · Posted by u/sandebert
nullhole · 3 months ago
Maybe I'm prudish, but I really dislike the term 'enshittification'. It sounds ugly, and it makes what would otherwise be polite discussions vulgar.

'Degradation' seems to carry most (all?) of the same meaning and doesn't have those downsides.

mnsc · 3 months ago
Degradation sounds passive, like something getting worse due to lack of care. Enshittification as a new word have the luxury of no baggage, so to me it perfectly captures the process of taking active, intentional steps to change stuff in a way that makes end user experience worse, but (maybe) product owner richer.
mnsc commented on SSH3: Faster and rich secure shell using HTTP/3   github.com/francoismichel... · Posted by u/tempaccount420
CharlesW · 3 months ago
h3sh | hush3 | qs | qsh | shh | shh3
mnsc · 3 months ago
SSQ
mnsc commented on iPhone Air   apple.com/newsroom/2025/0... · Posted by u/excerionsforte
serial_dev · 4 months ago
I have 14 Max, and it is so heavy. I don’t mind the thickness, but the weight is very annoying.

So while I didn’t say “I wish my phone was thinner”, I did say many times “this should weigh about half of what it actually weighs”.

mnsc · 4 months ago
I would actually like a phone that is lighter but fatter. Having empty space inside. Letting a good enough camera be flush with the back and the wider sides could add sturdiness. But as others have pointed out, consumer choice is an illusion. It's "you want this".
mnsc commented on Cognitive load is what matters   github.com/zakirullin/cog... · Posted by u/nromiun
YZF · 4 months ago
The problem is no set of rules can replace taste, judgement, experience and intuition. Every rule can be used to argue anything.

You can't win architecture arguments.

I like the article but the people who need it won't understand it and the people who don't need it already know this. As we say, it's not a technical problem, it's always a people and culture problem. Architecture just follows people and culture. If you have Rob Pike and Google you'll get Go. You can't read some book and make Go. (whether you like it or not is a different question).

mnsc · 4 months ago
> You can't win architecture arguments.

I feel this in my soul. But I'm starting to understand this and accept it. Acceptance seem to lessen my frustration on discussing with architects that seemingly always take the opposite stance to me. There is no right or wrong, just always different trade offs depending on what rule or constraint you are prioritizing in your mind.

mnsc commented on Training language models to be warm and empathetic makes them less reliable   arxiv.org/abs/2507.21919... · Posted by u/Cynddl
frumplestlatz · 5 months ago
At a societal level, the point isn’t to be kind. The point is to be effective.
mnsc · 4 months ago
Yes, so that is not the point of being kind.
mnsc commented on Training language models to be warm and empathetic makes them less reliable   arxiv.org/abs/2507.21919... · Posted by u/Cynddl
Forgeties79 · 5 months ago
You’re right, there are nicer ways I could have made my point. Though I can’t help but point out there’s a little bit of irony in throwing a “:)” at the end of your comment when commenting on my tone haha
mnsc · 5 months ago
Oh I don't meant to do that I think. I just thought of that friend due to how hard it is to emphathize with him during discussions about rand/objectivism. It's so non-human to take egoism to that extreme. But I still try and I don't consider him stupid/inhuman for holding those beliefs.

u/mnsc

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