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Re:Microsoft Word Is Immortal by ximm on Thursday December 18, 2025 @04:57PM (#46319374)
> For coders, visual aesthetics don’t matter. For lawyers, they are a technical requirement. While this difference may seem arbitrary on the surface, it is downstream of a critical technical difference between the two fields. Machines interpret the work of coders. Human institutions interpret the work of lawyers.

I believe this is not only infuriating, I am pretty sure it is actually illegal. If lawyers would think that visuals are more important than semantics, they would explicitly discriminate blind people.

Re:Microsoft Word Is Immortal by jpbryan on Thursday December 18, 2025 @05:02PM (#46319422)
>If lawyers would think that visuals are more important than semantics

I never claimed that it was more important than semantics. But it is, nonetheless, essential.