Originally Posted by
ShannonM
No worries... I had that crap beaten into my head with the Clue Mallet when I was in EE school, so I'm a bit twitchy. It's the same when I hear reporters say "positive feedback" like it's a good thing. (It isn't. Nuclear explosions are what positive feedback does.)
Six years of skull sweat, only to find out that I hated being an engineer... story of my life.
--Shannon
I just started my fourth career, this time as a school teacher. I've never been great at anything but I'm kinda good at a lot of things. Sometimes I think "those who can, do, those who can't, teach" applies to me. I studied computer science so that means I took a bunch of math. Am I good at it? Not really. Was I good at programming at IT? Well, I was OK but not amazing. I discovered late in life that I have ADHD which explains a lot.
I have a lot of language pet peeves like yours about positive feedback. It annoys me when people use the word "unique" to mean "unusual," but since it really means one-of-a-kind, at least in mathematics, there are no degrees of uniqueness. Oh well. But sorry about abusing or misusing asymptote.