> I’m surprised by the pompousness in the OP. He’s writing in a colloquial and self-deprecating and humorous tone. I can’t speak to the merits, but I can follo

> I’m surprised by the pompousness in the OP. He’s writing in a colloquial and self-deprecating and humorous tone. I can’t speak to the merits, but I can follow the reasoning perfectly fine. It’d be hard to find something further from pompous. > saving yourself some embarrassment Implying of course that being wrong, or not the first one to discover this, is embarrassing. And that’s not pompous?