alt Hacker News"Shame" is a strong word to describe a free ebook written for the general good. Happy to have a live conversation with you anytime to discuss Git and its internals to ensure your trust; I have some experience with it.
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I don't think it should be socially acceptable to perform a denial of service attack on people's attention.
“It’s a shame” is a very neutral way to criticize an editorial/authoring choice.[1] It conveys that they might have enjoyed it under different circumstances. Really no different than someone saying that it’s a shame that someone published some useful information in video form without any transcript. [But now with AI we can have the transcript anyway etc. etc.]
[1] A neutral way to express a subjective judgement: not blaming any person.
I'm sorry if I have offended you.
You probably have a great deal of understanding and knowledge about Git, and this book might be a good resource.
I'm not asking you to do anything differently, and yet I think it's important to realize that people have a deep aversion to text that appears to be LLM generated.
By "shame", I meant that just from a skim of the contents of this book, it can be hard to distinguish it from any other LLM generated text by any other author who has no idea what they're talking about.
That makes people (like me) inclined to discount what it has to say, potentially losing out on good technical content.