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It's naive to think that only one set of trade-offs is the best one, because you can always argue for infinite process and caution. If this Rust rewrite goes r
by hombre_fatal 5mo ago
It's naive to think that only one set of trade-offs is the best one, because you can always argue for infinite process and caution.
If this Rust rewrite goes relatively smoothly, you are completely wrong about the balance of trade-offs, but you probably won't admit that because the person advocating for more process sees themself in a zero-risk win-win position:
A. The subject fails, thus you win because they should have used more process and caution.
B. The subject succeeds without more process and caution, but they should have were they a professional like you.
I see this kind of thing in the comments on social media if, idk, someone died on a hike. Psh, that's why I never walk anywhere without a week's worth of water, not even to TJ Maxx. Psh, they should have had a satellite phone; I always have one on me just in case. Psh, their satellite phone broke and they didn't have a backup one? Always carry two.
Funnily enough, your claim is worse than those examples because, unlike them, you don't even know if the rewrite failed yet. The Redditors at least waited for the person to die on the hike before they chimed in with riskless feedback from afar.
- 12_throw_away 5mo agoYes, dear god, I get it, please stop repeating yourself. Besides starting right out of the gate with personal attacks, you've found 20 ways different to say "it's not fair to criticize something another person did because you're not taking the same risks as them". This is a poor syllogism - the second clause does not follow from the first - and worse, it's extremely uninteresting. If you had a good argument to make about the actual topic at hand, you would have made it, but I guess you don't, since you've resorted to criticizing the concept of criticism itself. I will admit that it was dumb of me to engage with this in the first place (although I guess you didn't clock that I was making fun of you? which, frankly, tracks).