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by krapp 1172 days ago
“When people thought the Earth was flat, they were wrong. When people thought the Earth was spherical they were wrong. But if you think that thinking the Earth is spherical is just as wrong as thinking the Earth is flat, then your view is wronger than both of them put together”

― Isaac Asimov

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Yes there are these kinds of facts and then there is the stuff software engineers argue about. For example “magic numbers in code is bad practice”.