• silasmariner@programming.dev
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    14 hours ago

    No, what I’m experiencing is the conventional meaning of the term as used by people in normal language not matching up with a technical definition that you favour. It’s fine that you prefer to use the word that way, you just can’t expect everyone else to

    • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      8 hours ago

      Lol at that person’s reply: “No, but the chart says it’s true!”

      These people have some desperate need for neat little boxes, each with their own designation, to put themselves and others into, and that’s just not how the world works.

    • Forester@pawb.social
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      9 hours ago

      Well you seem to be in the minority here so it would appear that the majority of people understand my definition as correct since that’s the definition as defined in multiple dictionaries.