Kushan

A radio show I listened to years ago did a competition each day to update each letter of the phonetic alphabet. I don’t remember most of them, but they decided that T should be “Technotechnotechno” and that always amused me.

You’ve been making shit up since this whole debate started. You’re the textbook definition of “perfection is the enemy of good enough” because 99% of people will find that a VPN is good enough but according to you they’re worthless.

Please don’t tell me what I am focusing on, when I haven’t even said it

I literally quoted you, so don’t try playing the “I never actually said that” card.

It’s ironic that you’re now complaining about context and strawmen when you yourself started it with the whole “anyone who wants to know who you are…” argument. This mysterious “anyone” is the ultimate strawman because they’re anonymous and all encompassing. Meanwhile, you have zero idea what anyone wants from their VPN’s so you’re making the broad, sweeping statements while lacking any context yourself.

A dumb take is, to pay for something you might get nothing from

And which VPN provider is it you’re getting “nothing” from? There seems to be a budding market for VPN’s out there, lots of people are paying for them and continue to do so, why do you think that is? Because the whole world is stupid and it’s a pointless waste of money? Or because they are actually in fact getting some kind of use from them?

VPN’s have a myriad of uses, you’re focusing on some ambiguous nation-state attacker tracking you down for whatever reason. Meanwhile, quite a lot of users would just like to watch porn without having to submit ID. I’d say they’re getting plenty of use out of their VPN for that.

Yes locks on your door are pointless because if someone wants to break into your house they’re going to do it once way or another, especially if you leave the window open

This is a dumb take.

It’s all good mate, we’ve all got over excited at times.

The article says:

The S1500 features a main airfoil and an annular wing that together form a giant duct. Inside this duct are 12 turbine-generator sets, each rated at 100 kW.

That suggests to me (admittedly a layman) that each blimp is more like 1.2MW?

Most developers are writing for developers who have approximately the same skill level and knowledge

I think you’re correct about this, but I also think that’s part of the problem.

On the one hand you can have technical tutorials for technical people, but to your point assuming the audience has the same skill level and knowledge is actually a mistake - no two people share the same same life, so while it’s reasonable to assume a certain level of knowledge, you still need to consider that there may be gaps - small gaps but gaps all the same and that it’s worth being explicit about things to avoid ambiguity. A common pitfall I see in a lot of tutorials or guides is not being explicit about file paths (“just add this to the config folder” - which folder? Where?), or not correctly steering the user towards the relevant documentation about configuration values while still expecting them to insert some config file specific to their system, stuff like that.

The other end of the spectrum - the beginner, to your point might not be the target audience but a lot of people don’t realise that those folks exist. The absolute classic example I see of this is Linux for the Everyman - Lemmy is very big on promoting Linux and moving folks away from Windows/MacOS but there’s a bit of a disconnect because a lot of tutorials exist that base level of knowledge that a complete beginner doesn’t have. So they’re both not the target audience but expected to learn that stuff - and of course it doesn’t work and they stick to what they do know.

All this is to say, writing tutorials is a skill in itself and part of that skill is knowing who your target audience really is and knowing where your knowledge is his experience from working at something for so long or a basic level of understanding you expect a user to have.

Honestly, getting it wrong in either sense might be the most British thing I’ve ever done.

Honestly, beef wellington isn’t bad or anything but it’s definitely overrated. Don’t bother trying to make one, just find one at a restaurant and wonder what the fuss was about.

Fuck grandma, my roast dinners are an event. Got my roastie game en point, my yorkies are crispy and all the trimmings are standard. Plus the gravy, not to brag, will make you jizz your pants its that good.

That the entire industry is cyclical and the current trends are yesterday’s anarcisms. Oop Vs functional, separating concerns Vs vertical slices, there’s examples all over the place.

All of this has happened before and all of this will happen again.