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It is not hyper-exaggerating any more than "Falsehoods programmers believe about names" is. That post lists as a counterexample the unpronounceable name that Pr
by Edman274 5y ago
It is not hyper-exaggerating any more than "Falsehoods programmers believe about names" is. That post lists as a counterexample the unpronounceable name that Prince went as. It described a scenario where no one has names and people only refer to each other by familial relationships. It said that it cannot be assumed that people's names can be written down. If you're willing to use "falsehoods programmers believe about names" as a guide for implementing a system for storing names, then you have to be able to handle my cases too. If I'm hyper-exaggerating, then so is that blog post. If I'm committing some kind of slippery slope fallacy, then you need to tell me how my examples are materially different from the one in the blogpost and draw a line that is able to say "this fallacy is true and we should accommodate it, but this one isn't, and we shouldn't."