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by dvh 3827 days ago
I have no problem with reposts, I have problem with using shortcuts that nobody outside domain can possibly know, and then, using the same unexplained shortcut in repost.

Normal thing to do would be understand that not everybody knows what "FP" is (free pascal, floating point?) and use full term in "corrected" repost. Perhaps original post didn't get any attention because people don't care about floating points.

Shortcuts are usefull when you mentioned term 100 times and it's just annoying, but you don't mention FP in title 100 times did you? There should be ban on using shortcuts on HN titles until it is well known shortcut (CPU, RAM, MB, ...)

Title should have enough information that if you stop random stranger on the street, can he understand or guess what is it about? The first thing rubber duck (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubber_duck_debugging) would ask is: "what is FP?" and that means title is wrong and deserves zero comments.

Edit: another thing - title is only write once, but read hundred of thousands of times, you are literally wasting manhours here.