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Re:Cave-Link: Underground text communication system by jareklupinski on Wednesday November 10, 2021 @11:46AM (#29176833)
"Only a Sith deals in absolutes."

that line (along with enough experience) helped erase words such as "always", "never", and "impossible" from my technical vocabulary :)

Re:Cave-Link: Underground text communication system by selfhoster11 on Wednesday November 10, 2021 @03:28PM (#29180251)
I started to reintroduce them into my vocabulary. I found myself qualifying nearly everything, and it decreases the clarity of the discussion, feels lawyer-like. I'm not drafting a contract (most of the time), but trying to communicate a complicated principle in a few words, where every extra word detracts from the meaning.