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> that they are unfeeling Cartesian rationalist automata

And what, they aren't allowed to be happy with that identity? They need to feel the author's brand of happy only? Ick.

Not allowed to appreciate garbage collection in Lisp because Python has it? And the author feels the need to class such appreciation as a side effect of a neurological disorder?

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> If you pursue things out of pure obsession, you might wake up and realize you’ve spent years labouring in obscurity on a dead-end

but

> You are allowed to use weird, obscure, inconvenient, obsolescent, undead things if it makes you happy.

[apparently not, considering the insistence of insulting anyone's reason for enjoying doing so]

but

> We are all going to die.






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