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.
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.
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.
>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.