Air is a necessity. If you don't have it, you'll die within a few minutes.
Water is a necessity. If you don't have it, you'll die within a day or two.
Food is a necessity, too, but if you don't have it, you'll live much longer than you would without water!
Vitamin C is a necessity. If you don't have it, but you have other food, you'll live much longer than you would with no food!
So, yeah, you fail at being pedantic in any remotely useful fashion. All you're doing is a quick, dirty, "um, actually" type gotcha, and you're not even correct about it.
Yes, there’s delayed feedback, I thought about putting that in, I didn’t bother. I guess I should have but I didn’t anticipate this level of hostility, HN is not usually this hostile.
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Necessities aren't always immediate necessities.
Air is a necessity. If you don't have it, you'll die within a few minutes.
Water is a necessity. If you don't have it, you'll die within a day or two.
Food is a necessity, too, but if you don't have it, you'll live much longer than you would without water!
Vitamin C is a necessity. If you don't have it, but you have other food, you'll live much longer than you would with no food!
So, yeah, you fail at being pedantic in any remotely useful fashion. All you're doing is a quick, dirty, "um, actually" type gotcha, and you're not even correct about it.
Yes, there’s delayed feedback, I thought about putting that in, I didn’t bother. I guess I should have but I didn’t anticipate this level of hostility, HN is not usually this hostile.