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  • But you don’t need to misuse language to assign responsibility.

    What? I am interested… How else would you assign the responsibility to people that designed something intentionally bad, if you cannot used language?

    “Misuse [of] language” is a concept I cannot even begin to wrap my head around…

    Do I loose the warranty if I use language in unintended ways?

    It is their responsibility for breaking the system.

    You just ‘misused’ language to assign responsibility to people for breaking the system.

    Saying the system was always designed for this removes responsibility.

    No? Responsibility is not a binary concept. Someone can kill someone else, and would be responsible for that death, and the people around that killer could also share responsibility for not noticeing their unusual behavior. And the system could also be responsible for not giving the killer the support they needed, which drove them to kill someone. And the people that designed or constructed that system could also be responsible for not caring enough about these kinds of deaths to prevent them systemically.


  • There is a difference is saying “I does what it does” and “what it does is per design”. The latter assigns a responsibility.

    In OP Aziraphale gives socienty the responsibility to fix a broken system incrementally and Crowley gives the people in power the fault of intentionally creating a bad system and calls for revolution.


  • Hmm… I am using git for maybe 15 years… Maybe I’m just too familiar with it… and have forgotten my initial struggles… To me using git comes natural… And I normally pay a lot of attention to every single commit, since I started working on patches for the Linux kernel. I often rebase and reorder commits many times, before pushing/merging them into a branch where continuity matters.



  • Isn’t it the exact opposite?

    I learned that you can never make a mistake if you aren’t using git, or any other way for having access to old versions.

    With git it is really easy to get back to an old version, or bisect commits to figure out what exact change was the mistake.

    The only way I understand this joke is more about not wanting to be caught making a mistake, because that is pretty easy. In other methods figuring out who did the mistake might be impossible.






  • I know this post is more about the committing on LLM “fixes”, but find the other reasons more interesting.

    Similar to the date & time library there are a couple of other things that look easy at a first glance, but get complicated very quickly, because it has so many special cases:

    • lexicographic sorting (different languages sort things differently)
    • Postal address formatting (different standards in different countries, with many different context sensitive rules)
    • string handling