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It's amusing to see "LEO" referenced twice in one day on HN, where the first time it was mentioned earlier[0] someone confused it for 'low earth orbit' when the
by sarreph 11y ago
It's amusing to see "LEO" referenced twice in one day on HN, where the first time it was mentioned earlier[0] someone confused it for 'low earth orbit' when the author meant 'law enforcement officer'.
[0] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11479709 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11479709
- taneq 11y agoI've long maintained that TLAs have become almost completely useless outside of extremely tightly scoped discussions. The namespace is just way too polluted.
- jessaustin 11y agoIn both cases mentioned, the discussion has been of sufficiently limited scope. Some people will ignore any context. b^)
- scentoni 11y agoUntil we get into discussions of law enforcement officers working on a space station in low Earth orbit.