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How do they know it's a bad product if they didn't bother to test it under the conditions it was designed for? It was a prototype, not a final product. In the original video, Linus is surprised (and maybe a bit upset) that the other guy didn't grab the right card or even notice that he didn't get the right card.

And to the point of the comment you replied to: it doesn't matter what the cost of the cooler was. If it was the best of the best then it was worth showing that. LTT does not seem to have a consistent viewpoint of "practicality". Even if we ignore that, saying "this product isn't worth the cost" is very different than the "useless" comment they ended up with.

The whole situation is what I like to refer to as "fractally wrong". No matter the perspective, how close or far away, it's always wrong.

Odd choice to hire Jim "Adrenochrome" Caviezel, in that Case. Why not any other actor that is not already associated with this issue?

The video from GN had footage from WAN show where he said that, so yes. I have not personally looked up the context, but it also sounds very much in character for how Linus thinks these days, so I am not at all surprised.

I also think it's an excuse to cover up the real problem: complete disorganization and the extreme pace of production. In the video itself, Linus seems legitimately upset with his employee that didn't even realize they had the wrong GPU. He did not seem surprised, however, which is very telling.

First off, credit given for writing up an explanation and posting in a public forum, even if I do think this is a crazy take that doesn't stand up to pretty much any level of scrutiny.

And I say christian instead of religious, because she is clearly referencing the idea of a grand plan that is not present in polytheistic religions, she’s talking about god’s plan.

There is a colossal reach from "there is a god with a plan" to specifically Christianity. Judaism and Islam don't get a chance to audition for the part at all, huh? And that's just the Abrahamic traditions that directly share the only attributes you listed. There are plenty of other religions that fit, and that includes other monotheistic belief systems (which also begs the question, why is Christianity not categorized as polytheistic and why does that distinction matter at all?).

I'm also just going to assume you mean evangelical Christianity and not other sects, given the general unawareness of the subtleties of religion in general.

Just because a publication tries to tackle a topic doesn't mean they are qualified, or that we should use that as an example of why the entire industry of journalism should be written off.

and there's still a lot of people on the windows side not using a package manager

I think "lots of people" here can just be simplified to "nearly everyone". Anyone that is ware of a package manager and why it's useful and thinks to look for an equivalent for Windows is not going to be bothered by a few extra configuration steps.

Those are choices, not requirements. Using Firefox is better than using Chrome. Doing the extra stuff is even better, but if doing that means someone gives up and goes back to Chrome, that doesn't help, either.

Don't let perfect be the enemy of good.

Court system is not known as being "speedy" even in the best of times, but it sure doesn't help that the federal district for DC is also still working through hundreds and hundreds of Jan 6 prosecutions.

Is this the same judge that directed Trump not to commit any more crimes while he was released on bail? Normally the most important direction at a bail hearing is "you must come to the trial", so I think these folks know they need to treat this case differently.

What does Google have to do with Adobe not supporting one specific browser not made by either company?

What a ridiculous, tech-ideology-above-all-else take. Not to mention over a decade past being relevant.

Flash could do things other technology at the time could not. It served a purpose at the time, thus its huge level of popularity.

Even if LK-99 does turn out to be a room-temperature superconductor, significant challenges around manufacturing and engineering would remain before it could be utilized in real-world applications.

This part seems irrelevant for this story. Of course there are going to be challenges and unknowns about taking a lab experiment to mass scale production. That is true of literally every thing that may eventually become mass produced.

What's interesting about LK-99 is not whether this particular room temperature superconductor would be useful. It's about proving that any such material is possible to exist. That would ignite a huge effort to discover why, which will lead to the development of other, better materials. Some of which will be scalable and affordable, most likely, given enough research time.

But until we know it's possible, why spend all of that effort? The first discovery on the edges of science are almost always most important as a signal that research is headed in the right general direction.