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by j7ake 1366 days ago
The shocking thing with some of these articles is somehow the author asked “why do people use radians” and ended up with an answer of “it was an arbitrary decision and the world would be better of not using it”.

I feel a bit of humility would have helped the author and perhaps they would have considered the possibility that they didn’t think of the problem deep enough rather than hastily write a blog post about it.

It speaks to the hubris and the superficiality of thinking for some authors.

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The shocking thing about some of these comments is somehow they didn't consider that the original author spoke in a specific context.

Casey didn't say the world would be better with turns instead of radiants. He said that game engine code would be better with turns instead of radiants. Be more charitable.