Jacob⏸️Egner

Interests: programming, computer security (esp passwords), finance/investing, statistics, etc

[Jacob⏸️Egner @jacobegner]

@AndyMasley How does one go from "electricity demand" to "land footprint"?

[Jacob⏸️Egner @jacobegner]

@s8mb Cool, thanks. A tip for anyone struggling to remember which is which:

Homo=same and phone=sound, so homophone means same sound. Nym=name=spelling, so homonym means same spelling.

[Jacob⏸️Egner @jacobegner]

@DavidSartor0 @reconfigurthing Cool, thanks.

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@heynavtoor @ihtesham2005 @pangram ai?

[Jacob⏸️Egner @jacobegner]

@ronSzab9 @IzrinAriff @allTheYud @andrewlevine @dampajoo1 That person is being snide and mean to you. You can just ignore them.

[Jacob⏸️Egner @jacobegner]

@gleech @GregHBurnham Whoa, I didn't know this, thanks. I guess Kindle version is the same as the paperback?

[Jacob⏸️Egner @jacobegner]

@US_Macauley @Alien_AV @allTheYud Industry revenue can go up while wages go down.

[Jacob⏸️Egner @jacobegner]

@ChShersh @m_schuetz I've seen this in C codebases that pre-date Rust.

[Jacob⏸️Egner @jacobegner]

@AndyMasley What was your original claim and what is your current opinion?

[Jacob⏸️Egner @jacobegner]

@anonymiserly @reconfigurthing Jbegugurpnaqyr (rot13) is 1.7 megawords, right?

[Jacob⏸️Egner @jacobegner]

@BenShindel @IsaacKing314 Sorry, I should have explicitly marked the paragraph with all the fancy words as a joke showing how fancy words often harm communication rather than improve it.

[Jacob⏸️Egner @jacobegner]

Imagine perusing a screed so reconditely sesquipedalian and glossolalic that every third vocable necessitates lexicographical divination, only for those same catachrestic, hapax-adjacent archaisms to vanish thereafter into the tenebrous oubliette of never-again-encountered diction.

Sounds like a waste of the reader's time.

[Jacob⏸️Egner @jacobegner]

@BenShindel @IsaacKing314 My use of fancy words was a joke to demonstrate they often make communication worse, not better.

[Jacob⏸️Egner @jacobegner]

@IsaacKing314 I work with a lot of smart people that don't have English as their first language and they appreciate my decision to choose the simplest language I can to communicate my ideas.

[Jacob⏸️Egner @jacobegner]

Pictures with at least some relevance help with memory and navigation of the structure of the article. Think back to all the times it was easy to scroll to a particular picture but it's less instant to recognize when you've scrolled to some particular text. If you've ever played a game like MTG or Hearthstone, perhaps you found it strangely easy to remember card images over card names?

[Jacob⏸️Egner @jacobegner]

@UnderwaterBepis @allTheYud @bitplane Glad to help you out! Huzzah!

[Jacob⏸️Egner @jacobegner]

@allTheYud @UnderwaterBepis @bitplane I'm pretty sure the above comment is a joke AND a lot of people wouldn't realize it on their own. Hopefully this comment helps them.

[Jacob⏸️Egner @jacobegner]

@bitplane @allTheYud Thanks for the answers.