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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Hardware Jargon
Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2025 01:33:18 -0000 (UTC)
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On Mon, 23 Jun 2025 22:13:22 -0300, Ethan Carter wrote:

> It's also the case that vocabulary sort of evolves even though no
> meaningful changes take place in an area.

One case that immediately jumps to mind for me, as a software developer, 
is “dependency injection”. I found out it was just what I had been 
referring to as “callbacks”.