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How 'Not' Changes Everything: Brain Interprets Negated Adjectives - Neuroscience News (neurosciencenews.com)
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[–] GreatTitEnthusiast@mander.xyz 5 points 3 months ago

I'm NOT surprised. As a programmer I really miss having the antonyms that Ruby gives you in other languages

Having to parse what '!includes' means is harder than just 'excludes' and, while that cognitive load is small, it builds up!