I can't believe how common this erroneous view is. Sheep reared for wool were bred specifically for the quality of their wool. Those that produce the best wool are not used for their meat. Wool is not a free by-product of anything, it is the product.

Yes exactly - it's one of those sentences that only makes sense to people who already know what it was intended to mean, because they know how it's intended to be parsed without having to puzzle over it. For the rest of us, it's pretty meaningless.

Regarding the LLMism, I didn't click on this submission when I saw it on HN last night, because I'm sick of seeing "The X is the Y", and an LLMish title tends to imply yet another piece of vibecoded slop.

  We calculated this positive feedback percentage using the total number of positive and negative ratings...
  Positive feedback: 189647
  Negative feedback: 9...
  189647 / ( 189647 + 9 ) = 100%

Where do you get that from? Is this a confusion with dates spoken or written out in full as "March the 9th, 2023"? We're talking numeric form here, "090323" in the specific example, and I don't think the UK has ever used MDY for numeric forms.

Usability breaks the look of my design, so I'll break usability! Obviously it's more important that everyone sees my amazing graphic design skills, than that they can actually use it!

I'd agree personally, but when you look at the huge success of things like WinAmp's themes back in the day, there clearly is (was?) a large market for it.

I recall scripts ending up as little as one-third the size of vanilla JS, when rewritten using jQuery (where the website was otherwise using jQuery anyway).

They both came from wealthy families. Of course they worked hard and applied themselves fully, without ever having money worries to distract them. But let's not perpetuate that cliché that it's purely down to "hard work", like the trope from rich people's self-marketing autobiographies. "It's all down to my hard work, nothing to do with my rich family, really, nobody works as hard as me"! People all over the world work very very hard, some much harder than these people, and don't have the privilege of wealthy families to fall back on.

To clarify: correcting and clarifying isn't begrudging or complaining. Same for those of us who know we won't attain it because we don't have that privilege. They enjoy it, good luck to them.

astrocized - banished to outer space.

True in general, but Hacker News isn't a school for beginners to technology.

Does that say something about steps required in our own maturation processes?