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by jcdreads 5214 days ago
I was amazed watching the video of Bret V. using a tool like this, but even given those expectations I'm impressed with how cool this is to use. Thank you very, very much for showing us this.

(Only such a beautiful specimen deserves such nitpicking, but: it's not a _genius_ talk, it's an _ingenious_ talk. _Ingenious_ is the adjective form of the noun _genius_.)

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I disagree with your nitpick: "ingenious" merely means clever, and is much fainter praise than "genius". You probably think "genius" can only be used as a noun since it's use as an adjective is fairly recent (a decade, maybe?). If you insist on a "real" adjective, probably "brilliant" is a better fit.