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The two statements are identical, competence is always within a given context.
by yifanl 7y ago
The two statements are identical, competence is always within a given context.
- diffeomorphism 7y agoNo, the second is "incapable" and suggests that even a "great" engineer could not have done it. The first one says that a "competent" engineer could have. Big difference.
- yifanl 7y agoA great engineer can still be incompetent in the face of a difficult (or poorly specced) task.
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- coldtea 7y agoIt's precisely because "competence is always within a given context" that the two statements are not identical. Incompetent can mean "as to the particular project context" (i.e. they could be great engineers that din't manage to deliver the fixes for this issue), or "as to their general professional capacity" (i.e. they are lesser engineers).
- yifanl 7y agoFair point. I read both statements in the context of the particular hardware bugs Intel's trying to fix, but I can see how my comment is quite vague.