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Tabs are better (lemmy.world)
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It is SO STUPID that spaces are widely preferred for indentation in code.

For the past, I don't know, two hours I've been trying to fix YAML formatting issues that could have been fixed without any human intervention if only tabs were used. (It's a big file, hence the duration.) (I know YAML doesn't support tabs. That's kind of my point.)

I even reluctantly asked Gemini (forced upon me by work; I was hoping it would change my mind in this case) why anyone would prefer spaces. It said the same irrelevant thing most people say: because some tools don't support tabs properly.

Know what that sounds like to me? A problem with the fucking tool.

I don't know if this is the right place to post this, but I can't think of a better option.

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[–] 1 point 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 child)

Well, my tag on you is "Epic apologist." That's something I consider a negative. I can see how you would object to that and don't mean to represent your opinion as invalid, just differing from mine.

Lmfao, ok bud. You can't see how that's toxic?

You've literally proven in this very conversation how that is toxic. You just used your previous arbitrary labels of epic apologist to dismiss what I had to say without considering it.

It is intellectually lazy, and overconfident.

I'm wiser now than I was 5 years ago, why would I trust a label that my self from 5 years ago slapped on someone? How do I know I wasn't just in a bad mood when I did that and was mistaken? How do I know that conversation was even completely representative of that person's views and not just a blip?

You are taking a small snapshot of someone's views (a single conversation), then boiling that down to a psnarky label that you apply to them forever.

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