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He just said he likes the color blue because of the ocean, where does bis success come in on that?


Ok, let me maybe phrase it as a question. Had he not invented the blue led, would he be telling everyone his childhood in the fishing village made him love the color blue, or would that inspiring memory not exist or maybe not be so significant?


You’re acting like he’s actively going around saying “Hey! Guess what my favorite color is? It’s blue! And I invented the blue LED, isn’t that a coincidence? And by the way, I loved the blue of the ocean since I was a kid!”

He simply answered a question Derek asked and followed it up by saying that he probably likes blue because of the ocean’s color. It doesn’t even have anything to do with the LED.

Weird hill to die on.


This childhood detail about his experience with the color blue being revealed is what makes a good interview.


I don’t think it’s odd for a child to pick blue as their favorite color because they grew up by the sea. That seems not at all unusual regardless of whether the child later grew up to invent the blue LED.

There aren’t that many colors that kids tend to choose from when they develop a favorite color, and blue has got to be one of the more common ones.


Would interviewers ask why his favorite color was blue if not for his inventing blue LEDs? Probably not. But might his favorite color still be blue because of his childhood memory? Sure, why not?


Since it's really impossible to say, we can consider the possibility that humble not-famous not-inventor alternate universe man might just live in a house with rooms painted various shades of blue because he loves the color so much. Or might run an etsy shop where the products are curiously mostly available in blue colors. Or he's a hobbyist 3d printer enthusiast and likes to use blue filament. Would he tell others that story? Maybe to bemused guests who remark upon entering the House of Blue. Who knows!


Who cares? Its a weird gotcha to get hung up on.


> Its a weird gotcha to get hung up on.

Hacker News in a nutshell.


Doesn't look like he is dying on any hills to me. I agree with him, it's a funny small lie that is really common and people rarely notice.


I don’t think anyone takes it that seriously. It’s just a sweet story, and I like it.


Lie? What's the lie? And, what is your evidence that it is actually a lie?


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That is not what the video stated. His love of the ocean inspired blue being his favorite color.


> Had he not invented the blue led, would he be telling everyone his childhood in the fishing village made him love the color blue

No. Nobody would care. He'd learn to stop telling that dumb story.

But here's the thing. It's a beautiful story, it's a touch of his personality, and those are nice things to have.

And, I must insist, he's earned a little self-indulgent reminiscence.


We probably make up less than 0.1% of users, so yeah it doesn't matter


If only cyclical references were possible


You can always just take the SIM out


Have you tried pipewire? It fixed some weird issues like the ones you mention for me


I have not. Any good links?


Yes Google "Ubuntu 2022" or "Kubuntu 2022" if you prefer KDE (I do), install and run it, that's all you have to do.



In that case, the problem still exists. I was running the most recent PopOS (Ubuntu based) and it was still a problem.


PopOS isn't from Canonical. Use Ubuntu or Kubuntu for a wonderful Linux Desktop experience. It's only worked for me since 2006.


I use esbuild to import .ts regularly, I'm not sure how you came to that conclusion


ESbuild correctly resolves the path, however it doesn't rewrite the import path. Thus, you end with a javascript file that tries to import a typescript file (this leads to a runtime error in the browser and Node).


This is so wrong it's not even funny


Is it? The solar roof tiles where unveiled in 2016 as a finished product and Tesla took 1000$ deposits, 2 years later they where still figuring out if the tiles they had where durable enough as roof tile. In 2019 he claimed that autonomous robo taxis would be ready 'next year' they are still working on that.


Teslas solve most of these but you can't mention Tesla here without people raising your pitchforks at you, and of course that's assuming that Tesla manages level 5 some day


They usually have the mindset of "let's put enough propellant so that even if our estimates are orders of magnitude off the mission will live long enough", and normally their estimates are correct so they end up with tons of fuel


I've gotten into the habit of doing CTRL-A CTRL-C before submitting any long texts


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