Ask HN: What was your most humbling learning moment?

Re:Ask HN: What was your most humbling learning moment? by keepamovin on Sunday June 02, 2024 @11:04PM (#40558981)

That's not a "false" dichotomy, that's an actual dichotomy: it's a real thing. Reading your comment, even tho you don't say it, I get the feeling you'd be with the rallying cry, "Bikeshedders Assemble!" hahaha! :)

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Re:Ask HN: What was your most humbling learning moment? by mkl on Sunday June 02, 2024 @11:16PM (#40559020)

It's a false dichotomy because it falsely implies there are only two options. Better than either are the other options which lie in between.

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Re:Ask HN: What was your most humbling learning moment? by keepamovin on Sunday June 02, 2024 @11:41PM (#40559140)

Oh, I see. That's a good point. But I don't think hu3's comment was suggesting there's only two options, just illustrating some possible margins to describe the landscape.

Maybe stavros' was hallucinating that strawman reduction in there, is what I think. Like you don't have to say it's a false dichotomy unless that's the only way you read it. The existence of something between the margins, should be obvious. Anyway, haha! :)

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Re:Ask HN: What was your most humbling learning moment? by Paul-Craft on Monday June 03, 2024 @12:29AM (#40559355)

Well, it almost always becomes an actual dichotomy soon, for sufficiently large values of "soon."

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Re:Ask HN: What was your most humbling learning moment? by keepamovin on Monday June 03, 2024 @10:15AM (#40562822)

Yes, the compounding effects of previous architectural decisions, but not if you take a balanced path, guided by awareness of the two extremes. So it needn't. Hahaha! :)

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