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i wrote it in a note to myself, so i am thinking about the meaning of the word "clobber" within the domain of programming it means, to me at least, that we are overwriting someone else's changes without reading them first - and there's an implication this is undesired behaviourPermalink Look on archive.org
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which is a useful word, because that is the kind of thing that happens all the time in programming, and being able to convey the inflections and details of what is going on is useful.Permalink Look on archive.org
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see also, all the different words, all conveying something slightly differently, that we have for a programming stopping working @v21/1099067889829793792Permalink Look on archive.org
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anyway, just a nice thought to have. i think i'm especially attuned to it right now because i have been doing more DIY, and there's a lot of specific words and terms used there, with a similarly rich vernacular feel. it's enjoyable to gain finer degrees of expression.Look on archive.org