"Usage is strongly discouraged, not meant for production" is a clue for "I actually put care into this thing, production use is probably fine"

Garbage-quality projects don't bother putting such warnings. They might even not be aware they are garbage.

(/s)

This is sarcasm but there is a lot of truth in it unfortunately.

I'm sure there must be a term for this... known incompetence > unknown incompetence.

Doing your own research on complicated products is hard, that's why we as a community seem to move on to things via trial and error.

Considering that the developer is saying "not for production" but the users are saying it works great in production, I'd say the comparison should be "unknown competence > unknown incompetence"

Isn’t that a variant of Dunning-Kruger?

Ah, yes, love those, cobbled together embedded compilers. Not a word in the Release.Me about the quirks. Just a "STABLE!!!".

Like binary C-Operators will only work on the first 8 bits, the rest is up there and needs to be shifted in and out.. basically work it out yourselve, once it wont work.

Then explain to the manager, that his hot project tooling from the megacorp upstream was basically license-brokken copy pasted garbage from some hobbyist half way around the world). And get a no, when asking for at least posting the patches back.

Or the "Working feature" which is just some api header, going into a inlined binary blob returning some constant. Which is just some flytrap to get you to drive by develop it for them. Twelve angry part time devs, make up one full working project.

The only professional in some industries is looking at you every morning from the mirror, begging for a mercy killing.

> The only professional in some industries is looking at you every morning from the mirror, begging for a mercy killing.

That got dark quickly. Otherwise, so true

Wrong root word; you're thinking of kaffir. Kefir is a fermented milk drink.

I think GP meant “ayran” or “doogh.”

Hey now, wait a minute. We can argue all day about kefir, kafir, and kaffir, but don't you impinge on the dignity of the semicolon just because the previous poster used one incorrectly.

I don’t think it’s an incorrect use of the semicolon. Semicolons are out of fashion these days, but using a semicolon to join two related clauses is perfectly fine, as far as semicolon usage goes.

A semicolon should link two independent clauses; using one to link a clause missing a verb to another clause is arguably incorrect.

But the verb in the second clause is not the elided verb in the first clause, so it is not linking in that fashion. The two clauses are independent of each other.

It's debatable, but they could be linked by [You're thinking of] wrong root word.

I agree that if you think "Wrong root word. You're thinking of Kafir." is acceptable, so too would be the semicolon usage, which is why I said "arguably incorrect" rather than just "incorrect"

At least for me, i read it as

"[That is the] wrong root word; You're thinking of Kafir".

Since in the first clause, it seems like the intention is to point to the previous comment that is the matter at hand, which was actually written not just thought about. However, other readings might be possible.

Could you point out where do you see such wrong usage here?

> Wrong root word;...

I don't see the wrong usage there, assuming that "Wrong root word. You're thinking of kaffir." would have been correct. Which it seems to be the case to me since both "Wrong root word." and "You're thinking of kaffir." seem to be correct sentences and juxtaposition is OK as well.

epistemic crutch token

This.

> because the previous poster used one incorrectly

The previous poster’s usage of a semicolon in this instance was, in fact, correct.

> semicolons are awful punctuation

I'm glad that someone finally admitted that C is crap. Clearly we need fewer C compilers, not more of them! Embrace Smalltalk!

Who said anything about "racial slur"s? In Urdu, one of the languages I speak, "kaffir" means "non-believer". Your suggestions 'mushrik' and 'neocon' seemed to fit pretty perfectly with that interpretation.

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Aside: semicolons are pretty great once one learns to wield them. Try it; you'll like it. Just think of it as a shorter pause than a period, but longer than a comma.

the typical romanization of arabic كافر is "kafir". the typical spelling of the slur associated with apartheid-era south africa is "kaffir".

> one of the languages I speak

why would i care which languages you speak

you are not me

i am not you

neither of us are everyone else

>try it

perhaps instead of me doing any of that, you could simply stop arrogating reflexively in your internet comments and presuming to know the inner contents of others' minds (you do not)

>semicolons

the purpose of your original reply was to condescend in typical nerdsplaining fashion. the reason my reply to you, in turn, was written like it was, including the side mention of semicolons, was to escalate abruptly and unambiguously, such that there was no ambiguity as to what i thought of the situation. i was expressing contempt. it's merely a circumstantial convenience that semicolons do happen to be dogshit punctuation used as epistemic crutch notation in prose

Perhaps he meant mursik [1]

1. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mursik