Re:Twitter names famed hacker 'Mudge' as head of security
by dane-pgp on Monday November 16, 2020 @11:27PM
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Weird flex, but okay.
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Re:Twitter names famed hacker 'Mudge' as head of security
by aurbano on Tuesday November 17, 2020 @06:41AM
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How's that weird? It is perfect anecdotal counter-evidence to the claim it's responding to.
Re:Twitter names famed hacker 'Mudge' as head of security
by dane-pgp on Tuesday November 17, 2020 @08:19AM
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I interpreted the original claim as being:
> There's really no reason to think the person turning the bolt necessarily knows what size the bolt needs to be.
and also steel-manned the final sentence like this:
> In the same way a web dev doesn't need to know how docker works
As such, the (claimed) existence of one person who regularly uses very different skills doesn't disprove what I think jacobsenscott was trying to say.
Re:Twitter names famed hacker 'Mudge' as head of security
by jhardy54 on Thursday November 19, 2020 @11:43AM
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Sure, but there's no reason to believe the person turning the bolt necessarily doesn't know what size it needs to be.
Example using the same logic as the post we're discussing: Someone flips a coin in another room. It doesn't necessarily have to be heads, so we should assume it's tails.