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		brookst on July 8, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: ProtonMail Rewrites Your Emails There’s a reason people use appropriately sized wrenches, which are opinionated, rather than crescent wrenches, which are not.

hughw on July 8, 2023 [–]

Sure, maybe for tools that need to do one thing, I’d prefer opinionated ones.

jameson71 on July 8, 2023 | [–]

Unix was built on that philosophy

fuzztester on July 8, 2023 | | [–]

Yes.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_philosophy

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_UNIX_Programming_Environ...

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