• Jerkface@lemmy.world
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    6 hours ago

    Sure, except when they don’t. Like what happened with that dev on that board in 2010.

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      5 hours ago

      How do play, pause, or stop icons mean anything? They were around for decades before me and I just learned that was how those actions were communicated.

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        4 hours ago

        Likely in the way that the previous commenter described. They’re not wrong, it just wasn’t a question of how. It was more that sometimes the transmission of information fails.