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Tinkering is a way to acquire good taste

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Re: Tinkering is a way to acquire good taste

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> has been pretty solidly invalidated by GP How exactly has it been invalidated? By pointing out that SOME widely used software (mostly web/web infra with unix heritage) has been written using vim/emacs as the text editor? Now, you can find endless sea of garbage software on github that is written using riced vim/emacs setups - would you therefore conclude that using vim/emacs leads to garbage software? The only thin…

> would you therefore conclude that using vim/emacs leads to garbage software? I cannot conclude that "it leads to garbage software", but I can definitely conclude that "it has ever led to garbage software" at least once, and in some "shape or form". > Claiming vim/emacs leads to or directly contributes to "quality software" is the same This (or the alluded opposite) was not the original claim. The original claim was…

Don't tell me what the original claim was.

You contorted it to mean that it's literally impossible to write "quality software" in vim/emacs.

I did NOT claim this. Nobody would claim this either.

I wouldn't make such claim even about nano or notepad or any text editor (of which there and hundreds and thousands) for that matter.

What an insane thing to contest even.

Would I attribute quality of software to - in any shape or form - to the text editor it was written in - whether written in nano, notepad or vim or emacs or god knows what else? No, I would not. That WAS the original claim.

Re: Tinkering is a way to acquire good taste

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> would you therefore conclude that using vim/emacs leads to garbage software? I cannot conclude that "it leads to garbage software", but I can definitely conclude that "it has ever led to garbage software" at least once, and in some "shape or form". > Claiming vim/emacs leads to or directly contributes to "quality software" is the same This (or the alluded opposite) was not the original claim. The original claim was…

Don't tell me what the original claim was. You contorted it to mean that it's literally impossible to write "quality software" in vim/emacs. I did NOT claim this. Nobody would claim this either. I wouldn't make such claim even about nano or notepad or any text editor (of which there and hundreds and thousands) for that matter. What an insane thing to contest even. Would I attribute quality of software to - in any sha…

> I did NOT claim this. Nobody would claim this either.

Regardless of what you wanted to convey, I hope the responses make a bit more sense now.

> What an insane thing to contest even.

We just simply thought so too.

Re: Tinkering is a way to acquire good taste

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I put many of these into GH anyways because who knows when someone else might find it useful. https://github.com/CharlieDigital?tab=repositories

How do you deal with issues and feature requests? I used to put stuff on github, but nowadays I keep one off things mostly to myself. I don't want to do any support to strangers for things I have no interest in.

It makes me happy! It means people are using it :)

Re: Tinkering is a way to acquire good taste

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Are you from the US by chance? I only ask because specifically for chocolate and coffee, I would consider the US baseline to be exceedingly average, even terrible. Even "okay" chocolate and coffee from other countries better known for food will blow it out of the water. The US does do excellent coffee, and excellent chocolate, but you have to seek it out. In a country like Italy or Australia the default, okay stuff i…

This is definitely the main issue in the US. People are always clamoring for the cheapest thing that's good enough. The US has some of the best coffees, chocolates, beers, food, and more in the world. I mean, if you wanna make money, you sell to Americans. But they're all artisanal products that few access. The baseline Starbucks, Hershey's, Budweiser, TGI Fridays, etc. are all... so bad.

Hershey's standard milk chocolate bothers me (and many others) because of the spoiled milk/butyric acid smell, which is due to their original manufacturing process.

However, some people in the US enjoy Hershey's, are not sensitive to the smell, and want the chocolate they grew up with (they might also like the acidic/tangy taste.)

But certain varieties of Hershey chocolate (Symphony, Special Dark) do not bother me as much.

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