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Thanks for the reply, I'm sure you're also just a regular person writing about the stuff you like and regardless of whether you end up agreeing with me or deciding that, no, that was exactly the tone you wanted, I appreciate the thought.

Absolutely not. This is what I come to HN for!

please don't regret writing the post the way you did, I for one enjoy well-written rants

Maybe the important take-away would be to recognize that this was a rant.

Ownership and honesty about things is healthy, as is letting out strong opinions sometimes.

Nothing wrong with saying "I wanted to write a (technically-informed) rant about something that's really bothering me, and I did."

F.ex. "clown-car turboslop" would be fairly polite by the standards of younger Torvalds (though he admittedly recognized later in life that wasn't a great communication style)