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I’m betting that all of us operate that way a percentage of the time. I’m not a zsh expert but I have to edit my zshrc file.

If that’s being a monkey, I guess I’m a monkey. But I bet you are one as well sometimes. I have empathy for people doing their best outside their area of experience, because all of us are that person.

If what you are talking about is people employed as professional C++ developers who have a very superficial understanding of the type system, that’s different. But I still don’t think the term “monkey” applies.




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