\begingroup This conflates general-purpose hash functions as used in e.g. data structures, which do indeed just aim to create 'buckets' of things, with cryptographic hash functions, whose aim it is to not allow finding any two documents with the same hash value.

the terms allowance and tolerance are used inaccurately and are improperly interchanged

This is not specific to Git-- it's part of how POSIX shells process commands. When you don't have quotes (or a preceding backslash), $ign is interpreted as an empty shell variable, so git only sees 'pew'.

The conflation of this vast array of companies, in and out of Silicon Valley, into the singular “Big Tech” does blur some of the important differences in the unique problems they each pose to society,

Have lost their parent (i.e. their parent exited as well), which means they'll never be waited on by their parent.

Overall, there appears to be no MIME type image/jpg. Yet, in practice, nearly all software handles image files named "*.jpg" just fine.

Don’t make the mistake of conflating Rails secrets with Rails credentials (like I did several times before learning better!).

If anything it thwarts separation of concerns to a degree.

Historical negationism,[1][2] also called denialism, is falsification[3][4] or distortion of the historical record. It should not be conflated with historical revisionism, a broader term that extends to newly evidenced, fairly reasoned academic reinterpretations of history.

In many computing contexts, "TTY" has become the name for any text terminal, such as an external console device, a user dialing into the system on a modem on a serial port device, a printing or graphical computer terminal on a computer's serial port or the RS-232 port on a USB-to-RS-232 converter attached to a computer's USB port, or even a terminal emulator application in the window system using a pseudoterminal device.

semantic domain or semantic field

However, if the distinctions between the two concepts appear to be superficial, intentional conflation may be desirable for the sake of conciseness and recall

In logic, it is the practice of treating two distinct concepts as if they were one, which produces errors or misunderstandings as a fusion of distinct subjects tends to obscure analysis of relationships which are emphasized by contrasts

Having a closer look, you will see that putting “create user” on the failure track probably isn’t such a great idea, as it will also get invoked when #validate errors-out. It’s a good idea to introduce a new, separate path for handling new users.

Does that make it so? Not for me. Were it simply a matter of words, I wouldn't write another word on the matter. But there are two distinct concepts behind these terms, concepts engendered separately and best understood separately.

Some people believed I argued that object orientation is bad simply because extends has problems, as if the two concepts are equivalent. That's certainly not what I thought I said, so let me clarify some meta-issues.

reform conflates these two responsibilities into a single validate method

About #validate which fill attributes of the form, I think it's a problem of architecture and clarity. If you respect the Single Responsabilty Principle, you must to have two methods. The validate method do two thing really different.

Currying and partial function application are often conflated.

One of the inherent dangers of any form of iterative development is confusing iteration with oscillation.

After an edit, there is a 5-minute “grace period” during which all edits to the same post by the same user are silently conflated.

You can see that Rollup mapped browser globals called "React" and "ReactDOM" to variables called "React" and "ReactDOM". The latter are what you imported by writing import React and import ReactDOM. (The variable names don't have to be the same as the browser globals, but it's common.)

Note that the word acronym is also sometimes used to mean "initialism."

The term "modal" is sometimes used to mean "dialog", but this is a misnomer. A modal window describes parts of a UI. An element is considered modal if it blocks interaction with the rest of the application.

These two measures are often conflated, but there is a difference.

Well, the checkbox type has nothing to do with AI, but I’ve read that the type where you have to select “Which picture is …” does collect data to train AIs. It seems dear Dave is confusing between the 2 types.