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aeva@aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place (2026-10-07 02:47:14)
@dthompson I think there's linguistic drift going on here that's not especially new.  I'm reminded of a conversation I had about ten years ago where I had made an offhand remark about doing something "by hand" as meaning I wasn't automating the task entirely, but I was still doing it on the computer and the person I was talking to thought that was really funny because their conception of doing something "by hand" would not normally include doing it on a computer at all.
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dave@dthompson@toot.cat (2026-10-07 02:48:02)
@aeva yeah "by hand" has lost all meaning

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aeva@aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place (2026-10-07 02:51:43)
@dthompson I think it's meaning is just fundamentally relative.  Yesterday's high tech industrial processes become tomorrow's quaint home projects.