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The tiniest yet real telescope I've built

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124 points chantepierre | 7 comments | 12 Dec 25 07:35 UTC | HN request time: 0.809s | source | bottom
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Nition ◴[12 Dec 25 07:48 UTC] No.46241829[source]▶
I always love the moment in blog posts like this, where the writer with their esoteric knowledge of the project will say something like "I almost considered reflaboring the exahenge, but of course it would be a ridiculous prospect for a project of this type". And then always, inevitably, there is the followup edit; "I reflabored the exahenge."

Too rarely in life are things made better than practical consideration would dictate, just because of dedication to the craft.

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1. chantepierre ◴[12 Dec 25 07:55 UTC] No.46241872[source]▶
Your comment brings me back to my first mirror making adventure, I was absolutely overwhelmed by the jargon and acronyms used by the mirror making community... a few years later I internalized it and use it as if it was common knowledge. I should put little explanations or details in my posts.
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2. awesome_dude ◴[12 Dec 25 07:59 UTC] No.46241897[source]▶
A friend of mine once told me - learning a new field is all about learning the language of that field
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3. Nition ◴[12 Dec 25 08:23 UTC] No.46242009[source]▶
There was enough there for me to get the basic idea, which is fine I think. Can't really expect every niche post to have all the details necessary for a general audience and it's fun to get a glimpse into these worlds anyway.

Thanks for sharing the post!

4. eru ◴[12 Dec 25 08:29 UTC] No.46242053[source]▶
That's a big part of it, but far from everything.
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5. awesome_dude ◴[12 Dec 25 09:22 UTC] No.46242345{3}[source]▶
I'm not really sure - I deliberately stopped there because the concepts related to that field are a part of the language learnings.
6. jiggawatts ◴[12 Dec 25 09:25 UTC] No.46242367[source]▶
What they hear:

"Exorcise the lattice hoard to siphon the new incarnation."

What we said:

"Purge the web cache to download the new version."

7. macintux ◴[12 Dec 25 11:23 UTC] No.46243078[source]▶
A friend of mine asked me why we have such precise terminology in IT; I asked her why English has so many different words for "chair".