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[–] AmazingAwesomator@lemmy.world 18 points 5 days ago (4 children)

my "okay, so..." beginning are usually trying to break my specialty into human-understandable language and prep an analogy. aint nobody but my nerdboi peers care about the dinglehooper flooting the yoonerbix .001ms faster than the yumdumtrum.

"its like a bicycle with 7 wheels, but only three wheels work at once." is easier to explain.

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Yup, my SO isn't very technically inclined, so describing anything I do in simple terms makes it sound super lame.

For example, I'm working on a P2P reddit clone, and here's how it goes:

Me: It's like reddit, but there's no website and it's all on your computer.

SO: So a note pad?

Me: No, it's also on other people's computers too, anything I wrote shows up instantly on their computer.

SO: Notepad with Dropbox?

Me: No, I don't have all of the data, and neither does anyone else. We only get what we subscribe to. Like reddit!

SO: So Dropbox, but with multiple documents.

Me: Sure...

SO: (pats me on the head) I'm glad you're excited about it, now do the dishes.

[–] Neondragon25@piefed.social 3 points 4 days ago

Yea but that .001 ms results in 16 more gigglebiggles per cycle and thats significant. Who wouldn't be amazed!