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While literally true, the phrasing of this title will certainly and (IMO) purposefully confuse some headline scanners vs: “Rust Is a Tier-1 Language at Microsoft”.

No true Scotsman


Very interesting, now if only you could measure abdominal fat without need expensive specialists.



Yup. If there is a crash, those with cash and understanding will clean up. AI is eating the world, period.


Benjamin Franklin said the same in his autobiography. I wonder if Gore Vidal had read it.


> I could well be wrong about this :)

Exactly. You assume and imply for most of your comment that the OP is wrong about his premise.

But people aren’t equally wrong about things. Some people are more right more often. So how should your POV change if you accept his premise that he’s usually right in these situations? Then could you make a fair reading of his post?


You would be steel-manning his essay if you assume he’s right in these arguments. Unless you believe that no position is more correct than another or that no one is more often correct than others, you can imagine scenarios where the author is often more correct than the people he is dealing with.


Isn't that what I'm already doing? I assume that the author believes that he's right often enough to argue his position(s), but feels dejected without being proven wrong at the end of the argument.

But there's another important point here: the answer to the "am I really right?" question isn't always clear at the start of every argument.

Unless you believe there's room for (dis)proving your position, or getting some nuance on a topic [1], it's not a debate or an argument - it's a lecture. And lectures depend on other social dynamics which don't apply here.

[1] For example, maybe there are other reasons behind the position that the person can't express easily, or maybe you're actually arguing about different things.


I noticed recently it’s cool to match the color of your vehicle to your house



I've got a feeling this approaches 100% at airports


And Swiss architecture - birthplace of Le Corbusier, and the very definition of dull gray chunks.


Why is this? I find it hard to imagine the appeal of so much grey. Half of them look like cheap plastic.


Supposedly it holds/people think it holds more resale value to not have loud colors.


I think it's less about the value. Special cars do well in loud colors. World rally Blue on Subaru, Tahitian Green and Barbados yellow on Honda, sunburst yellow on Miatas, all demand a higher price for the color. Loud colors reduce the pool of buyers. A yellow Rav 4 isn't desirable outside of a few people but they're not going to pay more for it. A yellow crx is a rare car and someone is looking for it willing to spend more for that cursed paint code than the same spec in white.


Or clothes, if you really want to do it right, like Madeline Khan's character in High Anxiety.


Right so it’s gonna be a litmus test for knowledge workers going forward if they can separate style over substance. Genai tells are style. You have to be able to evaluate the ideas.


I doubt that you can separate style from substance in that way, because you can't separate writing from thinking.

I agree that it will be interesting to see how this develops going forward. One can imagine wildly varying scenarios.


Hm. Nah. Why?

Why should I care? If it's a good thought, chances are it appears without slop around it. If it doesn't re-appear, life will still go on regardless.

No need to shift through noise just to avoid FOMO.


It’s both


> Sent from my iPhone.

I agree. It's both an ad and a useful signal of where the code came from or how it was created.

Just like the default iPhone email signature, it's an ad and a hint that the author was typing with their thumbs, so it's probably a brief auto-corrected message for that reason.


The iPhone analogy is very apt and accurate: it's ~95% advertising and ~5% useful signal.

Which for my repositories means I want ~95% less of it in my commit history. I'm prepared to round up for simplicity. But to each their own.


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