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Re:Claude's C Compiler vs. GCC by troupo on Monday February 09, 2026 @04:46AM (#46943466)
> but I cannot see any impoliteness here whatsoever.

Ah yes. "It's AI I don't care" and "AI has very deep reasoning about code, prove me wrong" are the height of politeness.

Re:Claude's C Compiler vs. GCC by kleiba on Monday February 09, 2026 @07:53AM (#46944721)
Well, I wouldn't necessarily call it "going out of your way to be accommodating", but impolite is just not the word I'd choose to characterize it. I can see why others might but it's just my personal feeling that I don't think that this is the correct adjective here.

That said, I don't feel like this topic is important enough to go on about it, I probably spend enough keystrokes on it already.

Re:Claude's C Compiler vs. GCC by troupo on Monday February 09, 2026 @08:52AM (#46945200)
That's how politicians and passive-aggressive people hide their rudeness/impoliteness: under a veneer of polite-sounding phrases.

But I guess we could've used a few other synonyms: https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/impolite inconsiderate, thoughtless, impertinent (2nd meaning) :)