this post was submitted on 16 Sep 2024
50 points (100.0% liked)

TechTakes

1385 readers
90 users here now

Big brain tech dude got yet another clueless take over at HackerNews etc? Here's the place to vent. Orange site, VC foolishness, all welcome.

This is not debate club. Unless it’s amusing debate.

For actually-good tech, you want our NotAwfulTech community

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
dgerard@awful.systems
50
remembering PG's "lisp would have stopped 9/11" essay from September 2001 (paulgraham.com)
submitted 1 month ago by dgerard@awful.systems to c/techtakes@awful.systems
49 comments fedilink hide all child comments
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] V0ldek@awful.systems 24 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I also had some extremely cringeworthy and not-even-wrong opinions 23 years ago, but at least I was 3yo then.

[–] shnizmuffin@lemmy.inbutts.lol 21 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I maintain that we should all aspire to be a firetruck when we grow up.

[–] V0ldek@awful.systems 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I wanted to be a train.

[–] schizo@forum.uncomfortable.business 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Freight or passenger?

[–] V0ldek@awful.systems 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Passenger! I wanted to drive people to their cool vacations and whatnot. Also passenger trains go vroooom and freights are like super slow and lame, and carry coal or some other boring stuff.

[–] schizo@forum.uncomfortable.business 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)

See, I'd be a freight train.

Towing hundreds of cars of things from place to place, and blocking railroad crossings for hours making people wait for me to move past? I'm all for the annoy-other-people-while-doing-a-vital-job life.

[–] V0ldek@awful.systems 17 points 1 month ago (1 children)

We had different childhoods