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  • froh42@lemmy.worldtoNo Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Why abc, xyz, etc.?
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    22 hours ago

    They don’t always use the latin alphabet. In University I hated my prof using the same letter over and over again in different writing systems. x, chi, Gothic x, x with hat, x with dash, x as a vector etc. etx.

    This was crazy hard for me as I internally verbalize when I read formulae, so I had to “invent” different pronunciations for evey different version of x. Because (for example) one is the vector, but the lowercase latin version is just the length of the vector.

    Along with the fact that people use slightly different conventions and then conventions in math are different in the anglosphere vs here - I frequently couldn’t understand a paper or script without having an idea how things worked in the first place. A didactical nightmare.

    In programming things are a lot easier, because there’s much more common convention for the field not being a few hundred years old.

    Aaah, maybe that’s even the simple answer to your overall post: Conventions, even if they are arbitrary, make things easier to understand.

    I see i, j - I think counting loop variable. Does it matter it is i? No. Do I think “index”? Nope.

    There are code bases where some clever persons used (for example) g or p for loop variables, they are just a tiny bit harder to read - until I get used to THAT convention.

    When I write code, I always try to mirror, what’s already there, to make it easier for the next guy - even if I don’t like the style.

  • froh42@lemmy.worldtoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.world•Is it common for hetero women to enjoy taking charge during intimacy and switch between who's leading? (I was raised in a traditional family so I'm dumb)
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    23 hours ago

    That’s a very revealing view you have about BDSM. No, you don’t need to like it or it doesn’t need to be your thing, still I want to clean up a huge misconception:

    Healthy BDSM is all about consent. It’s the central part of it.

    “Domination” is kind of a game, and you need a lot of trust to be able to play this. This trust is being established on a foundation of talking things through before on a level where I’ve rarely seen consent applied before.

    This is something to take away, so while the domination and submission thing might totally not be your thing - and that’s fine! - relying on explicit consent is something many vanilla people would benefit from.

    Do you want this / I would like that / That’s fine with me / Sorry, no that’s not for me. And even on a “no” response thinking “thank you for telling me, now I know more about you”. That’s the base where to base eye to eye level relationships on. It requires a bit of courage and we’re not used to it.

    I do think you feel exactly this, things are about consent. And upbringing / media has shed a weird take on BDSM.

    *= Btw BDSM in media has absolutely nothing to do with the real thing, as they just skip the part where people just talk for a long time.