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I'm glad to see GN put a piece like this out. I like LTT, enjoy a fair amount of their content, and I even like Linus as a person for the most part (from what can be seen publicly, no one is perfect and maybe he eve sucks IRL, I don't know), but I have had a number of issues with some of Linus' "takes" and the quality of the content that has been put out.
I think Linus is better than a lot of people I have met in recognizing certain biases, but he still has them and he will sometimes dig in on certain things rather than even acknowledge the what or why of the other side of the argument (a good example being the "trust me bro" stuff).
A personal critique I have of a lot of their graphs and charts is that the colors often don't make any sense, nor are they very color blind friendly. I'm not myself, but I do generate a lot of graphs and such in my professional life and I think it could be done in a lot better way.
Then again who cares about what I think, I'm just some rando on the internet.
I am curious to see if Linus watches the whole video before he responds. He does have a tendency it seems to just ask for a summary or to just kinda scrub through and not pay attention.
This weeks WAN show will be spicy. If the staff begs for for a short acknowledgement and to adress it better next week it will still be spicy.
Linus is like me in digging a bigger hole then he was in to begin with amd doubling down on it even in the kid fell in the well.
Also personally I think the graphs change or disappear way too quickly for me to actually look over the data without pausing which is just bad design
I agree, though I also kinda understand "why". They have never stated this explicitly, but the impression I get is that they intend for you to pause the video if you want to interrogate the graphs more closely. Not the choice I would make, but in a vacuum I can understand it. The cynic in me says going through graphs quickly is a way to hide sloppy work.