Re:A word used only by Postgres developers
by bryanrasmussen on Thursday March 10, 2022 @02:28PM
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ok, but Toast being the best thing since sliced bread is also a somewhat antiquated vernacular expression, I mean obviously the best thing since sliced bread is often used without toast as the thing being referred to but it was also often the case that toast was being referred to> https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2012/02/how-the-p...
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Re:A word used only by Postgres developers
by glouwbug on Thursday March 10, 2022 @02:48PM
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Yeah, maybe the guy just has a sense of humor - something that your average software developer would mistake for being a reference to documentation
This is wholly unnecessary.
Re:A word used only by Postgres developers
by Izkata on Thursday March 10, 2022 @03:19PM
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What's unnecessary, a sense of humor?
;)
Toast predates machine-sliced bread, which is what "sliced bread" refers to. Sliced bread made toast better (easier to automate), but that doesn't make toast the best thing since sliced bread.
The article you linked explains that "sliced bread" is the best thing, to which all later (not just bready) inventions are compared.
Re:A word used only by Postgres developers
by giaour on Thursday March 10, 2022 @03:20PM
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Isn't the joke that the particular piece of toast always postdates the particular slice of bread it was made from? I.e., toast is the best thing since sliced bread because first we had sliced bread, and then we toasted it. It's a dumb dad joke
Re:A word used only by Postgres developers
by bryanrasmussen on Thursday March 10, 2022 @03:45PM
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are you really under the impression that vernacular expressions are always perfectly logical and thus showing how an expression would not be logical proves that it was never actually in common use?