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>the quality and organizational structure of their engineering department You're not kidding. I had to work with twilio on a project and it was awful. Any time
by panny 10mo ago
>the quality and organizational structure of their engineering department
You're not kidding. I had to work with twilio on a project and it was awful. Any time there was an issue with the API, they'd never delve into why that issue had happened. They'd simply fix the data in their database and close the ticket. We'd have the same issue over and over and over again and they'd never make any effort to fix the cause of the problems.
- iamflimflam1 10mo agoThis is probably the first time I’ve seen a human use the word “delve”. It immediately triggered my - is this AI?
- ramraj07 10mo agoPeople from different countries especially where English is not their first language often have more esoteric words in their vocabulary.
- SatvikBeri 10mo agoMaybe you just don't read many books written after the year 2000? It was a pretty common word even before ChatGPT: https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=delve&year_start=1800&year_end=2022&corpus=en&smoothing=3# https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=delve&year_sta... But perhaps the most famous source is Tolkien: "The Dwarves tell no tale; but even as mithril was the foundation of their wealth, so also it was their destruction: they delved too greedily and too deep, and disturbed that from which they fled, Durin's Bane."
- necovek 10mo agoAs a non-native speaker, I read a lot of fantasy and science fiction books in English. I use "delve" regularly (I wouldn't say "frequently" though). Not sure if it's Terry Pratchett's Discworld influence, but plenty of archaic sounding words there. I did not even know it was considered uncommon and archaic, tbh.
- nutjob2 10mo agoI guess there may be regional differences but delve is a commonly used word for native speakers.