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Are you using "affine" to mean "for which one has an affinity"? I have never heard that nor can I see that as a wide-spread definition. Just curious!
by bugbrained 9mo ago
Are you using "affine" to mean "for which one has an affinity"? I have never heard that nor can I see that as a wide-spread definition. Just curious!
- vonunov 9mo agoI was wondering. Maybe "refined", as a derivative of the verb?
- sunrunner 9mo agoI think that poster is saying that here on HN posters typically preserve points, lines and parallelism. Rude, quite honestly.
- S3verin 9mo agoMaybe non native speaker, here in germany we often say "technisch affin" which means proficient with technology
- School-Cotton 9mo agoI’m a native English speaker and I have only ever heard “affine” as a technical term in mathematics, e.g. an affine transformation of vector spaces. I would have had no idea what it means outside of math. However, OP’s usage seems logical, so I wouldn’t be upset if it became popular!
- aleph_minus_one 9mo ago> here in germany we often say "technisch affin" which means proficient with technology As a native German speaker, I indeed fell for this false friend. :-(