@aescling anyway generally if there is a widely-accepted term of art in a field it is considered inappropriate to criticize it on the basis of its broader vernacular meaning
@aescling https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/term_of_art
a term of art is a word in a specific discipline (“art”) which is widely recognized as having a particular meaning which might vary from what it means generally
programming is full of these; like “functional” is a term of art in programming which means something different than “functional” might mean in other fields
I have a Ph.D in #ComputerAlgebra and am in charge of the care and feeding of a number of /heavy/ subsystems in Maple. So, sometimes I do important work, like going through the #pokemon type advantage graph and look for five type subsets that are isomorphic to the graph of Rock-Paper-Scissors-Lizard-Spock. There is exactly one.
“if you always raise more money in fundraising than your target amount then why can't you wrangle the legend of zelda fandom correctly?”
make me a tag wrangler of the zelda fandom so i can fix this horrible mess and also wrangle the tags i want to use
Administrator / Public Relations for GlitchCat. Not actually glitchy, nor a cat. I wrote the rules for this instance.
“Constitutionally incapable of not going hard” — @aescling
“Fedi Cassandra” – @Satsuma
I HAVE EXPERIENCE IN THINGS. YOU CAN JUST @ ME.
I work for a library but I post about Zelda fanfiction.