Re:Zed, a collaborative code editor, is now open source
by sarlalian on Wednesday January 24, 2024 @06:03PM
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My reply was to contextualize that it wasn't a lie. Maybe a poor choice of words, but given the context on the page, it's clear what it is talking about, which isn't the application being cross platform. A lie implies deception, which I think given the context on the page there wasn't any intention to deceive, just poorly chosen words that can have different meanings depending on the context.
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Re:Zed, a collaborative code editor, is now open source
by thomastjeffery on Wednesday January 24, 2024 @06:19PM
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> A lie implies deception
No it doesn't.
I don't need to carefully choose every word I write, just to make sure it is unambiguously charitable. That's not only a ridiculous notion, it's impossible. Natural language is ambiguous to its core.
You can infer what I write to be intentionally rude, but it's just as easy to infer the opposite. I'm not forcing you to do either.
Re:Zed, a collaborative code editor, is now open source
by sarlalian on Wednesday January 24, 2024 @06:42PM
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I didn't infer anything you said was rude (that was someone else). I was just pointing out that the statement "Work with code on any machine" isn't a lie. It isn't even wrong. Clearly it didn't convey exactly what they wanted to. And that lack of clarity has frustrated several people who by all appearances skimmed the text and missed the rest of the context around that statement.
Calling it a lie is hyperbolic and inflammatory. As you said, language is ambiguous, and that line is definitely ambiguous. It doesn't seem to be incorrect in the context that it was written, just in the way one could interpret it without reading the following paragraph. I don't know man, feel free to continue to assume malice here when it's just mediocre copy.