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Re: Show HN: Gitgpt – Natural Language Git

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Post by williamcotton »

Oxidation wrote: post #59
williamcotton wrote: post #54

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sure, but that is a predictable kind of result, not “rm -rf /“.

Some flavour of "git gc" after your reset is far more likely to crop up and ruin your day, that's true. As long as you stay on the statistical beaten path (i.e. you're asking about Paris), you will probably be fine, indeed. Probably. Stochastic bugs are always the most fun anyway.

You definitely go about making “stochastic bugs” more reliable in a manner different from debugging software.

It’s more akin to industrial engineering. There is no such thing as a perfectly machined widget. So we come up with an acceptable range of tolerances and compute a process capability. Six sigma. 3.4 defects per million and then buy an insurance policy.

Re: Show HN: Gitgpt – Natural Language Git

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Post by lolinder »

williamcotton wrote: post #45
lolinder wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The first two guidelines for this forum are these: > Be kind. Don't be snarky. Converse curiously; don't cross-examine. Edit out swipes. > Please don't fulminate. Please don't sneer, including at the rest of the community. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html If you get tired of respectfully explaining why people are wrong, then you can always stop commenting and go get some fresh air. What you should not…

Thanks, dad. Funny enough, I reviewed your comment history and you seem to be of the same opinion as the person I was responding to… …could that have perhaps motivated your patronizing tone?

I didn't intend to patronize, just remind you to chill out. I need the same reminders from time to time.

I note that the conversation that started from your re-submitted (and much improved) comment was quite productive and insightful on all sides, which is exactly what the site guidelines are designed to enable.

Re: Show HN: Gitgpt – Natural Language Git

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Post by williamcotton »

lolinder wrote: post #63
williamcotton wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks, dad. Funny enough, I reviewed your comment history and you seem to be of the same opinion as the person I was responding to… …could that have perhaps motivated your patronizing tone?

I didn't intend to patronize, just remind you to chill out. I need the same reminders from time to time. I note that the conversation that started from your re-submitted (and much improved) comment was quite productive and insightful on all sides, which is exactly what the site guidelines are designed to enable.

Yet it somehow attracted downvotes anyways…

What you’re missing from your perspective is that the original comment was aggressively wrong.

Re: Show HN: Gitgpt – Natural Language Git

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Post by netr0ute »

notShabu wrote: post #43

It's pretty useful as a lookup, but these tools are similar to a knife that auto-magically orients itself to help with cutting. Some tools should be as dumb as possible so that act as extensions of the user with zero tolerance. Play and buffer between intent and action creates a long tail of potentially disastrous unknown edge cases and also interferes with the feedback loop that prevents mastery. Memorizing git comm…

> Play and buffer between intent and action creates a long tail of potentially disastrous unknown edge cases and also interferes with the feedback loop that prevents mastery.

I don't know if this means anything here, because that feedback loop is basically the MO of all these tools.

Re: Show HN: Gitgpt – Natural Language Git

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Post by lolinder »

williamcotton wrote: post #65
lolinder wrote: post #63

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I didn't intend to patronize, just remind you to chill out. I need the same reminders from time to time. I note that the conversation that started from your re-submitted (and much improved) comment was quite productive and insightful on all sides, which is exactly what the site guidelines are designed to enable.

Yet it somehow attracted downvotes anyways… What you’re missing from your perspective is that the original comment was aggressively wrong.

Wrong, perhaps, but not aggressively so. They were making an observation that could very well have been misguided, but there was no aggression in their tone.

Re: Show HN: Gitgpt – Natural Language Git

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Post by williamcotton »

lolinder wrote: post #67
williamcotton wrote: post #65

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yet it somehow attracted downvotes anyways… What you’re missing from your perspective is that the original comment was aggressively wrong.

Wrong, perhaps, but not aggressively so. They were making an observation that could very well have been misguided, but there was no aggression in their tone.

Look at the next response where OP admits they didn’t need to be so extreme.

This is of course to be expected based on those that are optimizing to be rewarded primarily for their opinion and not for how it is stated.

I don’t find your argument convincing because I am not purposefully ignoring the social context. Your intentions are suspect, even if they are subconscious.

Like, if I’m unreasonably polite in response, downvotes. If I’m reasonably impatient, downvotes.

What exactly am I to infer here?

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