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> We have very different definitions of what "low-level" means. Does it really matter if you can understand them? waiting for strongly-opinionated engineers to
by ForTheKidz 2y ago
> We have very different definitions of what "low-level" means.
Does it really matter if you can understand them? waiting for strongly-opinionated engineers to finish their pedantic spiels (...even when they're wrong or there is no obvious standard of correctness) when everyone already understands each other is one of the most miserable part of being in this industry.
I—and I emphatically don't include the above poster in this view as it takes continual & repeated behavior to accrue such judgement—see this as a small tantrum, essentially, for people who never learned to regulate their emotions in professional spaces. I don't understand why this sort of bickering is considered acceptable behavior in the workplace or adjacent spaces. It's rude, arrogant, trivially avoidable with slight change in tone and rhetoric, and it makes you look like an asshole if you're not 100% right and approach it in good humor.
- godelski 2y agoYes even if I can understand them it matters. We should correct ourselves and enable better communication moving forward. I would also say that it too is rude, arrogant, and makes you look like an asshole if you are using words incorrectly and then defending that usage. One must conclude that either you have too much ego to correct yourself or you are intentionally misleading people. Why do you see this among engineers frequently? Well because it's the job of an expert to be concerned with nuance and details. The low-level in fact. This requires a high precision in communication too. The back and forth you see as bickering also ends up getting those details communicated. The reason being is that much of what's being intended is implicit. So the other approach is to use a lot of words. Unfortunately when you do that you are often ignored.