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Joined 7 years ago
Have fun.
(I'm sure if I pick any specific quotes, you'll start arguing the semantics of what is "zealous", how whatever number of comments I pick are outliers, or not proof enough, etc. So, here's one query, of many, that you can pick through.)
In the end, I really could not care less if you agree with the characterization or not. But your enthusiastic defense is fun. If you keep going, you'll be coming close to being an example yourself!
>TeleMessage lies about this in their marketing material, claiming that TM SGNL supports "End-to-End encryption from the mobile phone through to the corporate archive."
Surely someone of your expertise and renown recognizes this difference.
You can argue with fossuser about the validity of what they said.
I'll offer my opinion, which is not some proof from god or anything that you seem to be seeking, which is that I find significantly more annoying comments from Rust users, about how something should be rewritten in Rust to fix everything, than any other language. But, again, this is not proof from god. I'm just a guy making an observation based on my lived experience. You have a different lived experience. Glad we could clear that up.
It's not? It's like you're picking random words out of my comment to quote without bothering to read what I'm writing. Nothing of what I said is about the article. It's about your misinterpretation of what fossuser meant when they said "religious element".
I can't explain the same thing for a third (fourth, I guess? since I just tried again) time, I'm running out of different ways to say it. So I'll just leave it there.
Your meta-commentary on memes is neat and all, but again, somehow, completely misses the point I was making.
"Confabulation was originally defined as "the emergence of memories of events and experiences which never took place" - From the year 1900
The person you replied to said: "The religious element of rust programmers seems more extreme than other languages."
You interpreted that in a way that ended up with you asking "What is religious about rewriting tools in Rust".
I clarified that the typical way "religious element of rust programmers" is interpreted is not the act of rewriting tools, but the proselytizing about rust on message boards. I then gave an example of what that proselytizing typically looks like (which was not a claim that you said something like that).
That is the "religious element" being referred to. The proselytizing is the religious element, not the act of rewriting tools in Rust.
(The meme "Rust Evangelists" didn't manifest out of thin air because people hate memory safety or whatever -- it's because people are really, really passionate about Rust, and are vocal about that passion)
"Religious" isn't being used to refer to people rewriting tools in Rust.
It's used to refer to people zealously commenting on message boards that every single tool ever built should be rewritten in Rust, and if you aren't rewriting your tool in Rust, you're an idiot.
Consistency, sure.
Higher quality...? I'll take my artisan bread over Wonder bread, my hand-crafted table over Ikea, etc.
I'm wondering what this means.
Kind of by definition, you wouldn't be able to tell "successful vibe coding" from "successful coding", right? Unless someone announces it. And a quick look at the comments here, or any other thread with about AI & coding, would immediately tell you is a bad idea to announce.
There's a few things you just don't say on HN, because you'll be piled-on immediately: don't criticize Kagi, don't hint at being pro-cryptocurrency, don't announce you "vibe coded" something even if it's extremely successful, etc.
(The immediate downvotes on this is actually hilarious, and proves the point)
If that has worked for you, that's amazing! But it seems really counter-intuitive to me.
Doubt.
- Don't criticize Kagi
- Don't criticize tptacek
- Don't post anything even remotely positive about cryptocurrency
- If you insult someone in a vague, roundabout way, you'll get upvotes. But it has to be wrapped up in something clever sounding with plausible deniability that it was an insult.
- If someone popular posts in a thread early, do not post anything that doesn't agree with that viewpoint. However, if you post early enough, you can shape the whole thread to your viewpoint, and get plenty of upvotes.
- For some reason, citing stuff like the wikipedia page for "fallacy" or other unhelpful, common knowledge pages is seen as a good thing (see the rule about insulting someone but in a vague way).