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This is an incredibly reflexively contrarian comment

• throw10920 2mo ago
  This is factually false. A contrarian is "A person who likes or tends to express a contradicting viewpoint, especially from one held by a majority of people, usually because of nonconformity or spite." The post I replied to is literally being contrarian: > Lots of praise for Pi in this thread, so I'll offer up a diverging opinion. Meanwhile, my post was not being contrarian in the slightest. I didn't offer a contradictory viewpoint - I provided factual information and context to dispel false claims/misinformation in the post I was responding to (e.g. the claim "the standard C-p and C-n bindings don't work" is highly misleading/false because you can trivially rebind them), and the opinions I provided were completely orthogonal to the opinion expressed ("I suspect that if the harness was written in Lua [...] you would have far more issues with it." I expressed no opinion either for or against "Given all the hype, I was a bit underwhelmed by Pi. It definitely has some good ideas around customization, but it annoyed me in many little ways." It always surprises me when someone so confidently makes an objectively incorrect statement when they could have spent 30 seconds looking up the definition of a word and realized that they were in the wrong. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/contrarian https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/contrarian https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/contrarian https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/contrari... https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/contrarian https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/contrarian