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Yes, misusing "deprecate" as a synonym for "remove" is a pet peeve of mine too, since the meaning is completely different. (There were a few word usages at Goog
by kens 5y ago
Yes, misusing "deprecate" as a synonym for "remove" is a pet peeve of mine too, since the meaning is completely different. (There were a few word usages at Google that always annoyed me; "deprecate" was one, along with using LDAP as a synonym for "user id" and "turn down" for "shut off".)
- millerm 5y agoMy 82 y/o dad still “warms up” his computer.
- kens 5y agoSince some people might not know the history here, back in the vacuum tube days, you needed to let something like a TV warm up for a few minutes before it would work. Vacuum tubes contain a filament (much like the one in a light bulb) and it needed to heat up the cathode before the tube would start working. Later, manufacturers introduced "instant on" TVs that would keep the filaments powered even when the set was "off". This wasted electricity but you didn't need to wait for the tubes to warm up.