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by aew4ytasghe5 1191 days ago
> the only problem here is that you're faced with a hundred or a thousand different alternatives for how to learn to program.

This is a well studied and absolutely serious issue called decision fatigue [1]. You seem to be downplaying it's consequences by a large margin, most likely because you do not understand it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decision_fatigue

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The comment was really good right up until the point where you started speculating about whether I understand the point you’re making. You could just delete the second sentence there, and nothing of value would be lost from the otherwise high-quality comment!
That's how you know i'm not sentient.