You are a stupid programmer, you can't have that

[Kyle Ingraham]

On Sunday, 8 August 2021 at 16:38:41 UTC, Adam D Ruppe wrote:
> On Sunday, 8 August 2021 at 16:15:00 UTC, Kyle Ingraham wrote:
>> Why the personal attack?
>
> That's directly addressing the argument, not a personal attack.
>
> Imagine going to a mechanic and saying "my car shakes and 
> thumps" and getting the answer "just don't drive it then, no 
> more shaking!"
>
> True, but presumably you were driving the car for a reason, 
> like maybe you had some place to be and that's not going to 
> change. So you need some kind of solution. Maybe it is to ride 
> a bike or take the bus, but you can't just ignore that need 
> while saying "the problems went away".

I got the same as what you describe up to “You have just 
dismissed the problems caused by your solution…”. I just felt 
there was more there without background context that didn’t need 
to be there.