It's a reference to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863

But as usual it forgets the "For a Linux user" part.

If we remove the whole linux section and just ask "why not map a folder in Explorer" it's a reasonable question, probably even more reasonable in 2026 than in 2007. The network got faster and more reliable, and the dropbox access got slower.

Why is "ignorant" a synonym for "bad" (as a moral judgement, like "bad person")?

It just means you don't know something, which is usually a relatively bad situation for you, but it doesn't make you a bad person.

If you think otherwise, that's on you.

Well flying blind is unsafe guessing (ignoring modern instruments), that's a fact. But only "flying" and "blind" together. No one thinks this makes the word "flying" has a negative connotation here, and same with "blind".

Like "drinking" and "driving". On their own, they're both neutral, but "drinking and driving" is really bad.

> We’re far from the ultimate physical limit, but reversibility still provides practical efficiency gains today.

I'd love to hear more about this. Where it's used today and how big are the gains?

The point was only that Linus didn't build git in 8 days and alone.

AFAIK, PQ certificates are significantly longer than current ones. I don't know exact numbers though.

That's true for some jobs, but I'd be very surprised if anyone enjoys cleaning shit, for example

It can be enjoyable in the context of failure analysis: troubleshooting, finding root causes, documenting other people's fuckups then tracing through the assignment logs on who interacted with the server last.

Leaving aside the scene from Life of Brian, I have no issue cleaning shit - I've raised children, they poop, I have livestock, they shit, kids will happily frisbee cow pats, raking out sheep shit from under shearing sheds is a job that I've done, as have many .. you end up with a couple of tonne stacked high on a double axle trailer that's great for the garden.

For what it's worth, I don't mind a bit of higher dimensional data reduction when processing raw multi channel data, or geophysical world modelling (magnetic fields, gravity, radiometrics, etc).

I'm heading to the Graeberian world of bullshit jobs which ironically tends to head towards the direction of meaning.

I'm pro "everyone cleans their own shit" but the meaning of a garbage truck driver could immense compared to a honest hedge fund manager or a VC Patagonia vest.

Cleaning time of our own shit hopefully won't be a full time job. We'll just figure out the ones creating too much shit and educate them as a society :D

I don't really understand what's the point here, other than a somewhat inserting playing with LLMs. What does this tell us that's in any way applicable or points to further research? Genuinely asking

Regarding tiny packages, I don't think they affect the size of shipped bundle at all. They only bloat your local dev environment.

Bloat is mostly added by package authors, not website authors. And they can't know who's running it and can't look at the metrics. I doubt many website authors directly use isEven or polyfills.