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HN fails to see the intersectionality between corpo power complex politics and marshalling LUTs in firmware space. Shame, but that's life. Rob's point is bang on albeit from a technical stance. This is also ultimately why Rob failed, but with a deep groaning sigh and not a bequeathed resignation (a true nerd is at the end of the day only known by their yawp). Power junkies will try to convince you otherwise because they benefit from it. But you have to live to believe it. The life of a kernel driver maintainer of something that a large corpo entity is financially vested in is one of a diplomat saint. Newly minted VP wants to leave a mark and be goody two shoes. Good luck. The news you hear on the internet are superficial because the map is not the territory.

> it’ll mobbed by people who owe their paycheck to its adoption in under an hour, please don’t make me prove that.

I kneel.

Many such cases.

This is what a lot of us have had to do early on because we had no other resources than first-hand manuals (mostly only printed; Hackers scene with books was painfully true), and maybe someone on a BBS or Usenet (later IRC) who could answer a question or two if they felt generous enough with their time to not heckle us for being dumb. If you're looking into `ld`, you've crossed a point of no return.

And the `ld` manual is great and there is nothing wrong with it.

The dropbox comment is people who are completely misguided as to the market value of a product that solves a real pain point for users and the recommended alternatives of using rsync was comically out of touch with the technical acumen of an everyday person. (see also the great "Less space than a nomad. Lame." comment from that other site)

Using `ld` is on the opposite swing of that, and that discussion is very much res de facto technical one with no punches held back. This is what the "Hacker" in "Hacker News" actually stands for.

This is nowhere close, nowhere near close, not even within the same 100 mile radius close, of first principles.

This is literally starting from `man ld` and going one step further. The manual literally starts with a `man ld` printout and then goes to describe it from concepts onwards.

If you want first principles we can try to maybe start the discussion at maxwell's equations and take it a handful of hundred steps from there until we arrive at how logic gates, diodes and transistors work.

> My Siglent SDS 2304X was my first oscilloscope.

Absolutely. And explicitly calling out wealthy people for being wealthy just reeks of jealousy.

I read through this to hopefully save all of you the clickbait and mid-way through nonsensical philosophical diatribe. It's a bit ranty and devoid of technically-caloric content. The author is advocating for use of plain HTML/SSR patterns and avoiding SPAs and complicated frameworks/libraries ala Angular/React/etc. It's an old thought that lines up with the "you don't need JS" crowd.

Oh, and the author would like to kindly point out that React is legacy now. Because they said so. In case you didn't know.

'trad' in this sense mostly being the era of dedicated servers and the countless mods and whatnot that these games are known for. Some of the better bots during these years were done by modders who had access to do these things - Q3 included.

.. y-you wouldn't happen to still have them or are by any chance selling them would you? Strictly asking for a friend.

(one year later: "Auction sells rare early Air Jordan prototype for $3 million")

>The only surprising thing here is they took an action to brick something instead of just abandoning it.

You're right, but I wouldn't say surprising. I do wonder what would happen if the units just stopped working outright one day and they're all intended to be gridded and nothing works properly anymore and the distributors are stumped and can't get ahold of anyone.

I love the narrative of a Chinese manufacturer selling electronics to the West only to one day shut everything off for no reason at all than to fuck with people and disappear and for people to find out the supposedly registered company never existed. It's like a trashy, second-rate William Gibson knock off novel but there's something awfully amusing about it.

Strange to bring up Master Chief when the downfall of trad PC gaming that you miss began with xbros.

People involved are calling this the Haidt Bill. I guess the mad lad did it after all!

I can't fathom how salty one can be over someone's wealth to have this level of hate for them but if it makes the pain/inequality hurt less then so be it I suppose.

This is a fairly high level overview of linkers, most of which you can find for yourself if you look up `ld` documentation [0] (mentioned in the article) and walk through it step by step in a tutorial fashion.

A more comprehensive look would be, at the very least one would hope, to have a reference manual of your favorite MCU and write the corresponding linker script for the memory sections it expects and provide stubs/thunks and other things of that nature. It's the praxis and application that brings the scary things out.

[0] https://sourceware.org/binutils/docs/ld.pdf (nb - after you've gone through the page count of some IC and MCU datasheets, 164 pages of ld will seem like a walk in the park)

I can sympathize with the Gen Z here. Thanks to the internet/social media they're seeing far more than what we were privvy to when we were their age.

Namely, they're seeing the trust fund babies, but they don't know it yet. It will dawn on them soon enough.

> I'm all for the Twitter schadenfreude. Frankly, it couldn't happen to a more deserving person.

This is a very uncharitable and hatingly-blinded take.

You outline the OKRs and put KPIs against them.

>YC did well because they were good at picking ideas, not generating them.

This doesn't line up with the perennial attitude (as discussed by pg) that YC picks people/teams and not ideas, because while ideas and approaches may change, the people are the same and having a good founder, co-founder and team matters the most.

Their M.O. is to avoid getting too attached to an idea because, in the process of actually building the company, pivots may be required. And so the focus is on a team moreso than a business plan, which again, is not something pg is particularly fond of seeing especially the ones that have lengthy (and therefore improbable/unrealistic) forecasts.

something tells me 4chan will survive the birth and death of many social media platforms. lessons to be learned but everyone keeps repeating the same mistakes

> so criminal, rank ass, totally the gateway, empoweredearned, confines of the digital domain

are you an extra from Hackers?

> Elon Musk to Shivon Zilis, (cc: Sam Teller) - Aug 28, 2017

> This is very annoying. Please encourage them to go start a company. I've had enough.

this is the gold bit for me because it signifies the stark difference between shitposting and reality in the mind of someone who knows which way is up. HN stands a chance to learn from this downward-spiral-esque email exchange, but something tells me the lessons won't come through.

pleasant to see dota mentioned, haven't heard that name in quite some time.