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[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Needless cost?

That is just so what a nerd (Tolkien) would say about other needs nerding out.

Just let us nerd, ok?!

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I think he means in terms of time. In order to make it fully consistent, you'd have to have some kind of index and go through line by line making sure everything is saying the same thing.

Oh, wait...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

I think he means in terms of the content you would have to discard. An idea is described ten times one way, but described once beautifully another way. To choose a consistent description is to “lose” the unique one.