This changed with OSR2 I believe, when they started bundling IE4.

I have, and it contradicts your point. The single space is the nearly universal standard in modern print media.

Orwell's maxim, "never use a long word when a short one will do", is something the best writers have always freely ignored. But it's a reliable guardrail for the writer of merely average skill, steering them toward something passable rather than vomit-inducing.

I made all of that up but it's more plausible than conspiracy theories.

Since then I always write explicitly even though it is optional.

https://beancount.github.io/fava/

I really like its big picture view of the accounts, the search / query interface, and live editing of transactions.

> To be clear, I 100% believe that there is some kind of leak affecting some specific configuration of users

In this case it seems you believe a bug exists, but it isn't sufficiently well-understood and actionable to graduate to the bug tracker.

But the threshold of well-understood and actionable is fuzzy and subjective. Most bugs, in my experience, start with some amount of investigative work, and are actionable in the sense that some concrete steps would further the investigation, but full understanding is not achieved until very late in the game, around the time I am prototyping a fix.

Similarly the line between bug and feature request is often unclear. If the product breaks in specific configuration X, is it a bug, or a request to add support for configuration X?

I find it easier to have a single place for issue discussion at all stages of understanding or actionability, so that we don't have to worry about distinctions like this that feel a bit arbitrary.

I think I'm a lot better now than when I was younger at adapting to a wide range of conversational styles, mostly just from paying more attention to that dynamic.

Do you feel like your conversational toolbox has evolved over time? :)

"The compiler thinks my variable isn't declared" "That function wants a null-terminated string" "Teach this code to use a cache"

Even the word computer once referred to a human.