Eh, in my opinion we are in a time where Proton is allowing people use linux as a full time gaming platform, and if linux adoption around gaming grows because of this, eventually native linux games will follow become emphasized.
I understand his is completely different. For starters the interface being able to completely avoid the standard desktop is awesome, which Windows doesn't seem to be able to.
Secondly I get better performance with Linux and Proton on the same hardware.
Presents himself as a “MIT guy” while he did his bachelors and masters at a no name university his dad works at. Always talks about programming, then when asked to elaborate about his experience with GPT and programming, starts to talk about memes. Blocks even prominent people who criticise his research, yet talks about how open minded he is. Only references the most mainstream material. The list goes on…
The latter two are opinion. The first two are factual but hard for anyone else to validate.
I tried looking into "misrepresents his affiliation with MIT" and I couldn't figure out what he's misrepresenting. He claims to be a researcher at MIT. The MIT Deep Learning page[0] is all videos from his YouTube channel, including Fridman lecturing at MIT.[1]
I can believe that, but I also have to take those claims with a grain of salt.
Aside from Taleb, I don't recognize any of the people who claim Fridman blocked them, so for all I know, they tweeted obnoxious stuff at him and then complained about being blocked. Taleb is extremely abrasive, so I can't fault anyone for blocking him.
If it was like Yann LeCun and Andrej Karpathy complaining that Lex blocked them, then I'd question how aggressively Fridman blocks people, but if it's random Twitter accounts that seem to just shitpost all day, why do they have a right to communicate with Fridman?
Sure, without making an entire Medium article for you, which I don't have the time to do, I can't prove they weren't all shitposters, although there are some notable names, but that would be a lot of them.
I'll also direct you to the moderator list of the /r/lexfridman sub. No real people, none of them ever comment, and his subreddit is one of the most [deleted] I have ever experienced. If you look at reveddit, also check the comments. Quite telling. https://www.reveddit.com/v/lexfridman/?localSort=num_comment...
If your response is "maybe he just likes a heavily curated subreddit" then all I can say is keep coming back.
For being so open minded, he sure does have an incredibly tight grip on information control. This is coming from someone that used to think Lex was the cream of the crop.
Just listen to his podcasts. I was podcast hunting the last couple months and came across a recommendation to his podcast. I have no idea about him as a person, his background or his critics; so I was in an unbiased state.
I listened to a few podcasts to realize the dude is toast. He does mumble a lot of "sophisticated" words to sound smart but after 4 or 5 episodes there is nothing of substance that you get from him or his guests. I wondered why he was recommended in the first place but then remember lots of the podcasts in America are JRE style.
I kept thinking what Java had to do with all this, but thanks to this comment it finally connected that it refers to Joe Rogan's podcast. I'm not very familiar with his podcast but there was some American podcaster who ended up being a covid denial fanatic. Might've been him.
The thing I dislike about Lex is that he doesn't really critically interview. If you interview someone, you put your credentials at stake to interview them, and it must be critical IMO. Instead, Lex is more of a marketeer, giving the interviewee room to spout their message via his platform.
I've listened to a lot of his podcasts, I do not recall him mentioning MIT once.
>- blocks anybody who looks into his past
What? You mean in youtube comments? Aren't they supposed to be talking about the video not about whatever his past is? (I have no idea about his past, I just know he did something related to self driving cars at some point)
>- styles himself as an expert version of jre while being a terrible interviewer
He often describes himself as a terrible interviewer (which I disagree with), so I'm not sure how he's "styling himself" as anything
>- is often misinformed about the subjects of his podcasts.
He's an audience stand in who asks questions to the subject matter expert that he has on his podcast. If he already knew everything it would break the format.
> I've listened to a lot of his podcasts, I do not recall him mentioning MIT once.
He actually used to host his pod at MIT before he moved to Texas to be closer to his true loves, Joe and Elon. Haven't watched him in years since he moved away from tech and more into (mostly right wing) political guests but even then you could count on one hand the interviews he didn't mention Rogan or Musk.
This site just hates Mozilla for all kinds of reasons. I agree completely with your point though. Mozilla would be sorely missed were they to disappear, and moves like these are absolutely in line with their goals. Mozilla != Firefox
Mozilla you remember has disappeared long ago. One look at their financials tells you all you need to know about what they care about nowadays, which seems to be to pay leadership large salaries.
You fail to see that the criticism comes from rooting for Firefox and Mozilla through all these years and seeing them focus on everything other than their main product.
I'm willingly to bet HN has a much higher percentage of Firefox users than the internet average, and we are all tired and disappointed in Mozilla's current leadership because they've failed to innovate and keep the browser competitive.
Or you could just, you know, not read the author's stuff? They're posted here enough that you know it's going to be there. No one is demanding you read it and then share your brilliant takes on sexuality with us.
You know it's a terrible take when it can be turned around on you. That is, "if you don't like comments no one is demanding you read them and share your brilliant takes on opposition to mixing sexuality into technical matters".
It's such garbage content and I also stopped watching. I figure he probably can expense a lot of the cost/tax because it's a business purchase once he makes content out of it but not sure if that works the way I think it does..
People write off personal stuff as a business expense all the time, it's not like tax authorities have the time to go through line items on invoices.
As for the legality, when you take stuff that you bought for the company and later use it for personal things, you need to "pay" the company for it, you can't just write if off.
Any advice for someone who wants to switch to vim for Go development but struggling to find a good workflow? Using vscode it's so easy to rely on the auto complete, click a function name to go to it's definition, etc. I haven't found a good guide on getting that sort of basic workflow going which is unfortunate because I would love to stop using my mouse so much.
