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by jl6 1607 days ago
Now that may be entirely the right posture, but the triple equals signs in the post upthread did rather imply certainty.
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I took that to just be because we’re on a programmer heavy site rather than an extreme display of certainty
The standard you are applying is literally not possible to imply anywhere.

Hell, an HIV viron could be created spontaneously through quantum tunneling in your body with some non-zero probability. I think it would be legitimate to triple equal signs that to "not going to happen" though.