> Obsessive hacker tools like Emacs are not a productivity enhancer.
This is intellectually dishonest framing. "obsessive hacker tools" is incoherent -- it's not the tool that is obsessive or a hacker. I don't obsessively hack emacs--I barely know elisp--and emacs is very much a productivity enhancer for me. The main benefit of the hackability of emacs for me is that hackers write useful packages for it that I occasionally run across and install.
No doubt it's frustrating to carefully head off a strawman misreading of your points, and then have someone like sph completely ignore that and attack the strawmen anyway ... but it's well known that people like that exist, else it wouldn't be necessary to head off their strawman attacks in the first place, so don't take it too hard when you actually encounter them.
> Strong said it was not known when the bacterium entered the water, only that it was present during routine fecal bacteria testing on the discharged water.
I'm not the liar here -- none of those family pardons are for "white collar crimes", they were to protect them from retribution by Trump.
Again, Trump pardons people for a fee, and the motto of his pardons office is "no MAGA left behind". The fraud that he has pardoned amounts to about $2 billion to date.
I don't have to guess because I'm smart enough to look things up.
P.S. The response is a ridiculous non sequitur -- I didn't say anything either for or against such terms, just that their meaning can be discerned.
But I would note that all of language requires all readers to be familiar with terms and their meanings. And specifically, if people aren't familiar with the notion of language-independent code then they aren't likely to understand what "internationalization" refers to, and if they are familiar with the topic then they almost certainly know what i18n means ... and the time and effort that it took to learn it is infinitesimal relative to all the other language and meanings that they have acquired.
Further, the whole argument from this person is intellectually dishonest nonsense. They claim that terms like HTTP and NASA are "at the expense of the reader", which is simply false. I and most other readers would far prefer to see these acronyms and initialisms than to have them spelled out every time. (And it would be a disaster if http were spelled out in URLs -- and it would be a disservice to the reader to spell that out.)
> metaphysics is (tautologically) the domain of humans
which is frankly incoherent.