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Curious 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.

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theneverfox@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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

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- grue@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  You must be an electrical engineer or something, since you’re apparently so used to thinking about flows backwards.
  
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- SanctimoniousApe@lemmings.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.
  
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  - theneverfox@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    I mean, I do this professionally, I took courses that break down what makes something feel intuitive
    
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    SanctimoniousApe@lemmings.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.
    
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Jack_Burton@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
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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