binman [none/use name]
Is Vaush Unironically Evil? https://youtu.be/aCjyqziVSMA
An hour and a half of Vaush’s own words. The man spent a lot of time putting this together and it’s a stellar piece of work.
The hair trigger on the banhammer hurts. Lots of people came to the site to do something different than irony and edgy attitudes, but got whacked not long after. So it’s survivor bias.
There’s a Joel On Software that discusses this. It’s because all this crufty code was designed to catch edge cases. They’re bug fixes. Remove them, rewrite the software from a clean slate and all of the problems come back. It’s one of the main reasons Netscape croaked.
He defeated a full-scale Japanese invasion in 1939. It’s forgotten today, but he was at Nomonhan, having barely escaped the purges with his life. Without him, the Japanese would have probably gotten all the way to Lake Baikal and there would have been no Pearl Harbor.
Zhukov repeated his tactic at Stalingrad and it worked equally well.
“Chess is as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you can find outside an advertising agency.”
– Raymond Chandler, 1942