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Sure did. You're right it seems to be in use widely (in the wood compression industry), not that it seems to have any distinction from compression... (I say fro

Sure did. You're right it seems to be in use widely (in the wood compression industry), not that it seems to have any distinction from compression... (I say from my uninformed perspective) E.g. it feels along the lines of "we didn't just heat it, we THERMO-MODIFIED (tm) it." No matter they mean the same thing, doesn't the second one just sound cooler?!? /s Same ilk as "deconstructed" food, "artisanal" crafts, "synergy", ...

mrtesthah 1y ago
You’re sure eager to judge considering how much knowledge you lack on the subject.
- noitpmeder 1y ago
  I definitely am negatively biased toward anything I perceive using buzz words or jargon. I doubt I'm the only person with this knee jerk reaction (I say without any statistics or evidence I can link in). Same with any product that is over or deceptively advertised. If their stuff was good, provably so, then they'd prove it on their own merits. They wouldn't need to fill a website with 99% AI slop if they had anything else of any substance. Or, it's definitely possible I'm in the % of people who is overly sensitive to bullshit, and I fall outside the target audience of their AI slop. Similarly to how spam emails include typos to filter out people who are actually paying attention.
  - jrowen 1y ago
    This is an extreme overreaction to usage of a regular word that literally describes what they are doing. "Compress" would have been less accurate. Say what you will about the website but the video is a pretty reasonable sales demo.
  - all2 1y ago
    > I definitely am negatively biased toward anything I perceive using buzz words or jargon. Unfortunately every profession with any depth of knowledge will have jargon. Even house staff at a restaurant will talk about 2-tops and 4-tops, etc. It's just jargon, or better yet, convenient abstraction to describe the problem space these people live and breath.
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  - 542354234235 1y ago
    The more layman’s wording you use, the less accurate you will be. The reason for industry specific “jargon” is just that those are words that happen to be the most accurate and descriptive words for whatever materials or processes used. If you use too much jargon, people outside can’t understand what you are talking about. If you use too little jargon, then whatever you are talking about will be too vague.
8note 1y ago
cooked and warm are of course, indistinguishable. in a mechanical sense, a compressed object goes back to normal when the stress is removed, unless you break it. if the work piece did not go back to its original shape, you arent just conpressing anymore. eg. you are likely "cold working" it instead. if youre applying heat, you might be "forging" or "casting" while applying that compressive force. theyre all quite distinct
mmooss 1y ago
People use more specific terms because they mean something more specific than the generic term. Often within domains of expertise, people know the topic extremely well so they naturally use specific terms, and they also need to speak very specifically.

mrtesthah 1y ago

You’re sure eager to judge considering how much knowledge you lack on the subject.

noitpmeder 1y ago
I definitely am negatively biased toward anything I perceive using buzz words or jargon. I doubt I'm the only person with this knee jerk reaction (I say without any statistics or evidence I can link in). Same with any product that is over or deceptively advertised. If their stuff was good, provably so, then they'd prove it on their own merits. They wouldn't need to fill a website with 99% AI slop if they had anything else of any substance. Or, it's definitely possible I'm in the % of people who is overly sensitive to bullshit, and I fall outside the target audience of their AI slop. Similarly to how spam emails include typos to filter out people who are actually paying attention.
- jrowen 1y ago
  This is an extreme overreaction to usage of a regular word that literally describes what they are doing. "Compress" would have been less accurate. Say what you will about the website but the video is a pretty reasonable sales demo.
- all2 1y ago
  > I definitely am negatively biased toward anything I perceive using buzz words or jargon. Unfortunately every profession with any depth of knowledge will have jargon. Even house staff at a restaurant will talk about 2-tops and 4-tops, etc. It's just jargon, or better yet, convenient abstraction to describe the problem space these people live and breath.
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- 542354234235 1y ago
  The more layman’s wording you use, the less accurate you will be. The reason for industry specific “jargon” is just that those are words that happen to be the most accurate and descriptive words for whatever materials or processes used. If you use too much jargon, people outside can’t understand what you are talking about. If you use too little jargon, then whatever you are talking about will be too vague.

8note 1y ago

cooked and warm are of course, indistinguishable. in a mechanical sense, a compressed object goes back to normal when the stress is removed, unless you break it. if the work piece did not go back to its original shape, you arent just conpressing anymore. eg. you are likely "cold working" it instead. if youre applying heat, you might be "forging" or "casting" while applying that compressive force. theyre all quite distinct

mmooss 1y ago

People use more specific terms because they mean something more specific than the generic term. Often within domains of expertise, people know the topic extremely well so they naturally use specific terms, and they also need to speak very specifically.