I can’t speak for So8res, but I’m bothered by something like… privileging one particular frame for reasons of fashion or class rather than efficiency? The sort of thing where you leave hazards around as tests, so that people can see who stumbles on them and who gracefully avoids them. I’m not opposed to tests in general, I just wish they’d be more efficient.
Like, the old meaning of fish was “fully aquatic animal”, which seems like the right sort of definition for a four-letter word (remember, words are supposed to encode information cheaply), and saying “actually we’ve reserved that four-letter word for this tiny slice of its former domain” seems like a weird choice (comparable to the ‘true bug’ definition).
I can’t speak for So8res, but I’m bothered by something like… privileging one particular frame for reasons of fashion or class rather than efficiency? The sort of thing where you leave hazards around as tests, so that people can see who stumbles on them and who gracefully avoids them. I’m not opposed to tests in general, I just wish they’d be more efficient.
Like, the old meaning of fish was “fully aquatic animal”, which seems like the right sort of definition for a four-letter word (remember, words are supposed to encode information cheaply), and saying “actually we’ve reserved that four-letter word for this tiny slice of its former domain” seems like a weird choice (comparable to the ‘true bug’ definition).