When you pay a bill, do you select who you’re paying then the amount from whichever account, or do you select the amount from an account and then select the company you’re paying?
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ccunning@lemmy.world 3 weeks agoCurious why you think destination first makes more sense.
I just can’t get over the idea that when you move a thing to a different place, you go to where the thing is first so you can take it to the new place.
Jack_Burton@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
theneverfox@pawb.social 3 weeks ago
Sure… If I want $300 in an account, that’s my goal. I don’t want to decrease another account by that amount
So my goal is to move X money into Y account, or maybe all but X money into Y account
The second half is where it comes from. It’s not the goal, it’s the means
But again as I said, flipping this is a worse solution than either direction
grue@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
You must be an electrical engineer or something, since you’re apparently so used to thinking about flows backwards.
SanctimoniousApe@lemmings.world 3 weeks ago
Seems a convoluted way of looking at it to me, but i guess it’s just another case of different strokes for different folks.
theneverfox@pawb.social 3 weeks ago
I mean, I do this professionally, I took courses that break down what makes something feel intuitive
SanctimoniousApe@lemmings.world 3 weeks ago
I don’t doubt that, but courses are selected/designed by their teachers - who likely select what fits their pre-existing biases. Virtual nothing humans do comes out without biases affecting things, which is what makes the “reproducibility” of studies such an important part of science - and even those reproductions need to be done numerous times to truly start to become trustworthy.