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Dan Olson back at it with another banger. HN responds about as you'd expect.
(news.ycombinator.com)
Going a bit on side venture here with this comment, but I'd so much prefer this to be well written up instead of a two and half hour video. And it's so ubiquitous, watching videos over people reading, and I can't help but think it's extremely hurtful on a cultural/societal level.
Side sneer: Nah, video is great. Watching an hour-long video is a standard part of research for the working software engineer. Lots of content from conferences like Strange Loop, DEFCON / Black Hat, and CCC is only available as video, and was intended to be watched or accompanied by slides.
...But I may be biased, as I have no problem performing 2hr speedruns. Lately I've been running games with 3hr or 4hr routes, and I'll readily agree that it's not for everybody.