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Thankfully, the blog’s comments section was still open so that you could pollute it with your smug pedantry.
by buttocks 2y ago
Thankfully, the blog’s comments section was still open so that you could pollute it with your smug pedantry.
- gumby 2y agoIt’s confusing. It’s a technical spec and the wrong use can be confusing, and can cause you to discover you have the wrong part at an inconvenient time. It’s a case where “size matters”. It used to be quite common to see a serial port wired in a B shell, sometimes with just three pins, making a DB-3. If you were making the point that I shouldn’t care if a bird were a raven or a crow in the background of a painting, sure, that would be pedantry (unless there were some important symbolism). But this is a simple case where a modicum of accuracy can make a big difference.
- psim1 2y agoApple themselves call the floppy connector a DB-19 (https://support.apple.com/en-me/112201 https://support.apple.com/en-me/112201). In this case, it would be better to use the "wrong" DB-19 term so that people seeking the referenced connector can find it.
- wannacboatmovie 2y agoIt's not "smug pedantry", it's literally correct.
- eesmith 2y agoAlready commented, on August 9th, 2016 at 7:23 am.