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@amiloradovsky@functional.cafe @newt From what I've seen the implication is a sort of a narrow-mindedness, considering your expertise and focus the most important of all. It's an easy ad hominem attack, as it's a common knee-jerk reaction. After all if you didn't consider it important why would you become an expert, and if you are focused on one thing, you are likely to disregard others, since... well that's the definition of focus. Both as an argument and an insult it's obviously weak, hence the invention of new words to conceal and confuse.

I also sometimes notice hints of tribalism in certain uses of the vague plural "techbors", I presume because of some economic disparity and common business practises that isolate certain technical experts from general public.

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