I think it’s an artifact of AI being used to write it.
replyI spotted a few more down the page and stopped reading.
I trust the judgment (and curation) of a person who invested significant time into learning stuff and then took even more time to write it down.
I don’t trust people who use AI to generate text.
If I want to read AI slop — I can generate one myself.
I want some soul in texts.
It is a sad day for the internet.
HN is not just read by IT professionals. And they might be a bit curious about Linux startup without necessarily recalling what they know or never knew about hexadecimals.
replyIt's fine to explain things to people that are not into that topic. But I also wonder what the target audience is. On one hand, he explains what a hexadecimal ist, but then jumps over essential information needed to understand the boot process. It's like: "Learning to swim: This is water, it is wet, if you jump in you sink and in water you cannot breath. Then you start moving your body parts and then you swim."
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