Originally Posted By: eddie1261
I got about 4 acronyms deep into that article, stopped reading, took 2 aspirin.

Can't people just say what the acronym means?

HDCP and EDID and CEC? Shut up, you arrogant eggheads lording over us mere humans that don't live in that world. Just shut up. (Or if you prefer to play the acronym game, STFU.)

I can't possible know what every acronym in the world means.

YKWIM?


I agree about acronyms. Psych 101 was the only course in college where I cheated on the exams. I had no respect for the long-haired blond "professor" who spent the entirety of his lectures focused on the girls filling the first two rows of the lecture hall and rolling a LifeSaver around his mouth with his tongue while speaking. I got to an early question on the first mid-term that asked "which two psych tests were empirically derived?" and then gave us four dual acronym choices to select from. I had ZERO idea which one to choose, so I looked around me, found two peeps working together on the test, and copied their answers. I blew off every lecture after that, and just cheated the tests. Got a B for the final grade.

I was going to give the article's author some slack for linking those three acronyms to another article which I assumed described them. It didn't mention any one of the three.

Ding. Ding. Ding. Three strikes and you're OUT, Mr. Author.

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