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ekjhgkejhgk ◴[] No.45646503[source]
How come everything is "opinionated" these days, and since when has that become a compliment? I don't want software to have opinions, I want it to do what I tell it.
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1. zahlman ◴[] No.45647522[source]
> I don't want software to have opinions, I want it to do what I tell it.

What you tell it can be ambiguous or underspecified. "Opinionated" refers to the decisions the software makes so that you don't have to. Sometimes it also refers to having a default configuration that most users would find acceptable (but which can still be modified).