I'd like to believe the HN crowd is only slightly more refined than the hoi polloi but yea.
I've come to a whole new understanding, as a computer scientist that signalling still matters and we just suck at it.
If you read the comment you wrote you may see that it casts all pre-computer people who actually dressed up in a very poor light and I'm sure some of them could set us straight on many things related to life skills.
The standard signals are a shirt and tie, jacket and pocket square with other accessories.
Now we're on a different playing field with other less overt details and our vehicles have become our outerwear.
We've both got each other thinking a little. Fist bump to that!