Also the hivemind seems to have taken against tweetsXeets, a stunning reversal from last year when St. Elon was gonna usher in a new Dawn of civilized discourse.

  • self@awful.systemsEnglish
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    1 year ago

    it’s very frankly well worth stepping out of the Y Combinator bubble. I dropped the site for anything other than as a target for sneering years ago because I started to see a lot of dangerous patterns emerge in the community (general scientific illiteracy is one thing, as you mentioned; for me, the site’s general undercurrent of thinly veiled racism got very hard to stomach).

    on a more personal note, not being immersed in HN’s bad ideas did wonders for my mental health. the only thing I feel I really lost was the ability to easily get an audience for my open source projects, but there are other outlets for that.

    • froztbyte@awful.systemsEnglish
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      1 year ago

      yeah similar. I only skim the link source as a semi-aggregator of stuff (because it’s where a lot of people will share shit), but even that needs significant filtering.

      otherwise a strict policy of Don’t Read The Comments

      • bitofhope@awful.systemsEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        Allow me to sum up my relationship with the orange site with a lightly edited quote of Dennis Ritchie from The UNIX-HATERS Handbook:

        Here is my metaphor: your book website is a pudding stuffed with apposite observations, many well-conceived. Like excrement, it contains enough undigested nuggets of nutrition to sustain life for some interest to computerniks like me. But it is not a tasty pie: it reeks too much of contempt and of envy silicon valley chauvinism.

      • self@awful.systemsEnglish
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        1 year ago

        mostly Nix code lately: a flake that turns any desktop into an old Lisp machine, another flake that turns any desktop into a new Lisp machine (a Lisp-based workbench that enables system-wide recursive self-improvement), a module that mostly auto-configures a high performance windows gaming VM with dedicated hardware (one of the non-proton ways to game on Linux), and a flake that implements an efficient technique for templating/static website generation