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by KennyBlanken
1462 days ago
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Denying people information to make a decision because they might react in an uninformed manner is so hilariously on-brand for Dan Luu. Remember his blog post about walking into an Apple store and harassing (and then writing a long blog post mocking...) a poor retail employee because he wanted a laptop of a specific weight, they were understandably a bit confused and thought there was some sort of XY problem and asked for more information......and for some inexplicable reason he could not simply take 15-30 seconds of his life to detail the need to them? No, see: Dan Luu is Very Important, Very Very Smart and Completely Unique Needs and you are just a lowly NPC service worker who could not possibly understand his needs or brilliance. And he never explains himself in that article either, because he's a troll. The problem in the screencapped comment is the groundless accusation the information is incorrect, not asking if it's still correct. On many, many technical subjects, information that is five years old is uselessly out of date. I've pissed away hours because I trusted a writeup or forum post about a problem or configuration method that stopped being relevant or even correct years ago. These days if I'm searching on almost anything technical, I immediately select the "last year" filter on google, or throw in the current year in quotes because I've been so consistently burned by this problem. |
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Just to be clear, he does not deny the information. Chronology matters a lot, danluu knows this, and he does make it available. He also made finding it a personal journey for any first-time visitor looking for a date, costing about 60s per user lifetime.
He's unduly sensitive to bad criticism by ignorant people and admits as much. Reducing his exposure to them helps get him through the day, and so all the power to him.
As for the arrogance, I love this site and would keep coming here even if danluu were Pol Pot himself. Users and moderation make the site.