Post #2862254
2025-10-12 21:55 UTC
@ireneista@adhd.irenes.space @richpuchalsky@mastodon.social
[off on a tangent...]
I wonder if, for some technical systems, we could assume that we got incorrect information if the answer is "too neat".
(For example, my pet peeve: The number of dashes for different Unix commands.
find / --name '*.sh'
"Wait. Two dashes? I now have docs for 10 programs who have consistent syntax. That is highly unlikely.")
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@ireneista@adhd.irenes.space 2025-10-12 21:57
@wakame@tech.lgbt @richpuchalsky@mastodon.social thus far, we've had no trouble noticing it's wrong because it's clickbait promising to be either an article or a forum post about our exact topic, which only needs a one-line answer, but the actual content is 2,000 words of relevant background information we already knew, and no actual answer to the original question