13 points maiama 2 hours ago 2 comments
alwa 32 minutes ago | parent
Ugh. The ____ is the ____, verbing nouns left and right... and I can wistfully report, after trying to beat my brain against some of these sentences, that the analysis behind it seems to be of the Claudish Potemkin variety too.
I still can't quite put words to what vexes me about Claude's faux-literary register, but the image that comes to mind right now is some very ambitious kid who slips on a Ronaldo jersey and shows up trying to pass for him at an actual match...
> Six lessons that hold across cases
Every example below comes from a post in the table.
1. The everyday mailbox is the one that talks
2. A coined handle is a fingerprint; a dictionary word is camouflage
3. An email anchor beats a handle match
4. Dates sort owners from squatters
5. The record anchors, and the search illustrates
6. Know which document prints identifiers
boneskull 29 minutes ago | parent
If you aren’t gonna put in the effort to write it, I ain’t gonna put the effort in to read it