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This inspires the feeling of hating both sides of a fight and hoping that they do as much damage to each other as possible before it ends.

Boo. Hiss.

Sure, but then you have to generate all that crap and store it with them. Preumably Github will eventually decide that you are wasting their space and bandwidth and… no, never mind, they’re Microsoft now. Competence isn’t in their vocabulary.

As long as it isn’t where he is, why should he care? He’s retiring on Mars, anyway.

(Please, deities, send Musk and Thiel to Mars soon. Together, if possible.)

“When you find yourself in a hole, stop digging.”

I suspect that he is incapable of admitting to himself that he is in a hole, much less that he dug it himself.

The history of technology teaches us that every non-trivial problem – and a large fraction of trivial problems – require specification beyond the bounds of conversational language.

Greek geometers may have invented the idea of formalizing language with specific definitions, and inventing new symbols to represent special meanings. When important consequences accrue from getting things wrong, people develop jargon: knitters and sailors and shepherds and farmers; engineers and lawyers and plumbers. If you want to convey your knowledge and intentions, you can’t chat informally and expect a human to really understand what you want.

For about a century now we’ve had devices that turn instructions into actions. Everyone who uses these becomes an expert in the particular form of instructions that the device needs, or else they don’t get what they want.

No wristwatch, but I have glasses and without electricity I stop breathing. (While asleep.)

So, yeah, cyborg.