@mos_8502 It spans all vocations, imo.
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@mos_8502 It spans all vocations, imo. It's okay to like good tools, and some people end up being tool crafters... but I'd like to hang out with machinists, not people who get into fights about which brand of lathe is the Best Lathe. Same with programming languages.
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@danderson @mos_8502 I mean the correct answer is a Monarch 10EE. But also yes.
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@petrillic @mos_8502 It's okay to have favorites, and also to be wrong I just like conversations to end somewhere around "yeah that's a neat piece of kit, I can see why you enjoy it" and not have it become my entire identity at the exclusion of everything else
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@danderson @mos_8502 exactly. Best only exists with a lot of context and footnotes. But I do like knowing why someone likes something.
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@petrillic @mos_8502 Yes! I also love digging into _why_ someone likes a thing, there's usually good reasons even if they turn out to be not for me. And some of the happiest times in touching computers for me have been the moments of going "oh damn wait I remember a thing for that!" and being able to cross-pollinate. So far my favorite was definitely transplanting some general ideas from haskell-style monads into a C++ codebase to clean up a thing, in terms of how cursed the melding was