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“Don’t trust people” is a heuristic to avoid being scammed. But it is much nicer to live in a society where you can trust most of the people. The same way it is
by citrin_ru 3y ago
“Don’t trust people” is a heuristic to avoid being scammed. But it is much nicer to live in a society where you can trust most of the people. The same way it is nice to work with code base where you can trust comments by default. Which is the case for many open source projects.
- Retric 3y agoPersonally it’s always the programs you can generally trust that end up reinforcing the idea. On average you may be far better off trusting comments but that one time they fail you is all the worse because of that trust. It’s the same deal with compilers and computer hardware. They work so well that they become a blind spot, and yet I’ve had both fail me.