Language is magic. Some electrical impulses cause a bunch of electrochemical reactions in a complicated pile of meat to make air vibrate, and at a distance another complicated pile of meat turns the waves into a similar series of electrical impulses.
Of all the unlikely stuff to happen to make use… that’s still just wild…
It’s because we were given a name for something that didn’t have a name before but was everywhere.
This is a great thing. With a definition we can understand and discuss the topic.
I always assumed the majority of these were bots for MarTech companies testing for engagement.
Mind you, I assume 90% of YouTube comments are these days.
Took way too long to find a response from someone that actually does the work.
Most of this discussion is just the neuro spicy and olds angry that everyone doesn’t do it the “right” way.
I bet there are billions of hours wasted by people trying to make the perfect way to document and discuss stuff, while the answer is “it’s hard, tedious, and pretty manual work to create and manage good documentation”.
But nobody wants to do it because it has and always will suck.
I’m amused to know that I can look through old irc chats talking about how forums are the death of foss projects. Or mail lists complaining that everyone is using IRC wrong…
Yeah I’m indifferent to discord as a platform. It’ll eventually be enshitified and people will move on.
The bummer is that it’s enabling people to be poor at documentation in a whole new way.
That said, if Discord went away tomorrow most software projects would still have garbage documentation, because most software projects are ephemeral at BEST.
Fuck Spez… amirite ? Guys?
I don’t think there’s anything better or worse with using fractions versus decimal. Numbers are numbers… but your example just shows you have a •preference• for one method over the other. Not that either is subjectively better.
Your last example is literally exactly the same precision. Did you struggle with “significant figures” in school… lots of people raised in American schools do.
Yarr? Yarr. Yarrr!!
For society? A smartphone