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Are those actually considered lettuces, though? It's most likely a cultural thing but none of those are lettuces over here. As in, calling them lettuce would be as far fetched as calling spinach lettuce.

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Another fun fact about plant naming conventions: all lettuces* are the same species

*except wild lettuce but nobody really considers that a lettuce. Still, I guess it would be more correct to say all of the food lettuces are the same species.

Irrelevant side quest that I went on while double checking this: DuckDuckGo now forwards some search queries to their chatGPT wrapper, which prompted (pun intended) the following interaction:

Yes. Even accounting for those idiots, car drivers still break more traffic laws. And it's exponentially more dangerous when they do. This is what the article is getting at.

Yay. An argument from character. What did the head developer of Wolfire did that hurts its credibility more than... checks notes running an illegal casino for minors?

Yes. This is exactly what I mean when I say "you're spreading misinformation" in response to all the "iTs OnLy AbOuT tHe KeYs" comments. Kudos for actually informing yourself before butting into a discussion.

They wording is specifically outlined on the lawsuit along with how it impacts competition. Read the damn thing.

G2A and the likes don't count. I've also taken advantage of the poor economy of the 3rd world to buy cheaper games. You wouldn't ask a watch store why doesn't Rolex force the shady guy in an alley to offer the same prices they do.

makes you think I'm nothing more than a dumb internet troll with no meaningful opinions or thoughts worth sharing or discussing like adults

Holy fuck. I called you one out of all of those and it was the one who isn't even a pejorative. I thought you were joking, because your comment sounded like you were joking. There's really no deeper meaning to that.

No stopping to hunt for operators and symbols

That's what I'm saying, using parentheses won't make the operators and symbols go away. You'll still have to stop and hunt for them, you're just adding parentheses in addition to that.

because it isolates the problem into distinct, physically easier to read sections

That's only true for simple expressions, though. Once you try to type something more complicated, parentheses get very confusing very fast. Anyone who's ever had WolframAlpha refuse to evaluate an expression because of a missing parentheses knows what I mean.

As for your examples,

1+2+3×4+5+6

1+2+3÷4+5+6

In these, the version with parentheses is different from the one without because you want the operations to be done in a certain order that isn't indicated anywhere.

1+2×3÷4*5-6

And in this one, you're mixing several operators with equal priority on the same line while not indicating which one you want to be done first.

What I'm getting at is that you've provided the exact examples where you have to use parentheses so it makes no sense to ask which one is clearer because only one version is correctly written. It would be like me asking you if (24)+1 is clearer than 2*4+1 and concluding parentheses are confusing because you didn't divine I wasn't typing twenty four but instead wanted you to multiply the 2 and 4.

Finally, the order of operations isn't just some arbitrary convention, it might seem that way when we limit ourselves to only numbers but its intuitiveness really shows in algebra. Take the polynomial:

2x²+1

Even if you've never heard of the order of operations, there's absolutely zero confusion about which order you're meant to do the operations. It would take a madman to decide that "+1" is part of the exponent or that you're supposed to add the 1 to the x² and then multiply it by 2.

In this case, adding parentheses here would turn it into

2(x(²))+1

which is unnecessary and it gets annoying very fast. For example:

(2(x))+(3(x(²)))+(5(x(³)))+(8(x(⁴)))

vs

2x+3x²+5x³+8x⁴

You might say that's not fair because this expression clearly needs no parentheses so I just added them to make it seem more confusing and you'd be right but that's the point: there has to be an arbitrary line where we decide parentheses are no longer necessary and that's the order of operations. We settled on that because that's what works in algebra. When it comes to what's intuitive in arithmetic, left to right is obviously the best (for westerners). Unfortunately for arithmetic, we've decided that intuitiveness in algebra is more important than intuitiveness in arithmetic.

Is that supposed to mean something?