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Turing_Machine | 1 year ago

Thanks for giving the OP some firsthand advice that answers his question and might actually work, rather than chiding him with some variant of "You shouldn't have trusted YouTube in first place ('you big dummy', implied)". That type of "advice" accomplishes nothing, other than maybe boosting the ego of the person making it.

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thaumasiotes|1 year ago

> That type of "advice" accomplishes nothing, other than maybe boosting the ego of the person making it.

That depends on whether anyone other than OP ever reads the comment thread.

animanoir|1 year ago

probs talking about me. My replies works as a warning to someone reading the post. The Google download is actually a nice tip tho.

pvg|1 year ago

People don't make these posts to serve as cautionary tales for others, they're usually asking for help.

muzani|1 year ago

It's very common on HN. I do it too. Mostly because we spend a lot of effort avoiding these platforms, and when something bad happens to a person because of it, we can shout, "Ha! My paranoia is justified!"

If you're working day to day as an engineer, you end up mostly thinking in unhappy cases and 99.99% uptime scenarios, so it actually seems like helpful advice.