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Also regardless of whether she's a woman or she's known for intelligence, a response in which you say "You're wrong" needs an extra second's thought to consider
by tialaramex 3y ago
Also regardless of whether she's a woman or she's known for intelligence, a response in which you say "You're wrong" needs an extra second's thought to consider whether, in fact, they are wrong, or maybe just their understanding is different from yours and you need to reconsider with their context.
Some time back in an HN thread about programming languages I read a response in a thread about inference which said that a particular feature doesn't really save on typing. And it seemed ludicrous. Until I realised the author of the comment has seen the word "typing" (which everybody else in the thread is reading as "The thing you do with a keyboard") and they're interpreting it as "The thing the compiler does". And yeah, with that perspective of course inference isn't saving typing, all your variables still have types, we were just happy because we spent less time operating the keyboard to write a program. Their comment was not wrong and we weren't correcting them, we'd just understood things differently!
Edited to add, link: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36593110 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36593110
- city41 3y agoI almost never say "you're wrong", no matter how confident I am. Because I can be, and often am, wrong myself. If there is a disagreement, a miscommunication, etc, why not instead work with the person to find where you two differ and look for common ground? If the other person really is wrong, it's almost always naturally revealed that way.
- petesergeant 3y agoAlso it’s a lot more fun to simply shout “FALSE”