When I tell the Windows Terminal team something is simple, I am "misguided"

Re:When I tell the Windows Terminal team something is simple... by jffry on Friday May 06, 2022 @10:14AM (#31285361)

> English is not my native language and "The solution is trivial" was meant sarcastic. The solution isn't trivial at all, nor is it complete, because solving the corner cases is complex.

I think it's really difficult to convey sarcasm well in text, and what seems obvious to you as a writer might not come across as sarcasm to readers. I certainly didn't understand that as sarcastic right away.

It might be better to address it directly and in a friendly way, like this:

> Like I did, you might be wondering right now why we don't just create our own, much larger lookup table and wrap it around Direct2D. Well, we can’t just tell Direct2D to use our custom cache [...]

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Re:When I tell the Windows Terminal team something is simple... by lhecker on Friday May 06, 2022 @10:24AM (#31285472)

Thank you for your suggestion! I believe I can't just edit the article now, since that would be disingenuous, but I'll try to avoid sarcasm in the future and use something like you suggested instead.

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Re:When I tell the Windows Terminal team something is simple... by ghusbands on Friday May 06, 2022 @11:23AM (#31286248)

You could edit the article in a week or two, once things are calmer (maybe leave the original text in crossed-out form, or a link to the original via archive.org); it might help future readers who don't get there via this controversy.

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