Why does man print “gimme gimme gimme” at 00:30? (2017)

Re:Why does man print “gimme gimme gimme” at 00:30? (2017) by shawnz on Thursday July 29, 2021 @08:42AM (#27995770)

If you are so unfamiliar with X that you require the advice of experts to implement it, then how can you say so confidently that the reasons to do X instead of Y are justified, even though those experts disagree?

If it's really true that the conventional wisdom about Y is just wrong, and X really is better in some cases, then it will be a long process to get all the experts to reconsider their assumptions, requiring battle-tested proof, and that probably won't happen in a single SO thread.

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Re:Why does man print “gimme gimme gimme” at 00:30? (2017) by tarsinge on Thursday July 29, 2021 @09:39AM (#27996393)

I'm not unfamiliar with the problem space and why I want to do X, I'm just looking on implementation details. If the question was "How should I solve that problem? Should I use X?", then sure "use Y instead because it's a better practice" would be a valid answer.

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