Hi, I'm Benoit and I've been a professional developer and DevOps consultant for 17 years 🤓.
I blog original content, once a month, since early 2023. Exclusively from real production experiences.
For the exact same reason that you put green/red colors on supervision dashboards instead of "OK", "KO" labels : it gives information that is, at the same time, taking less space and faster to understand (once you are used to).
I've been a professional C, Perl, PHP and Python developer.
I'm an ex-sysadmin.
Back in the day, I had a geekcode which I'm not going to share with you.
418 I'm a teapot.
Hi, I'm Benoit and I've been a professional developer and DevOps consultant for 17 years 🤓.
I blog original content, once a month, since early 2023. Exclusively from real production experiences.
I was answering the question what purpose does the little picture serve?.
Indeed, disabled people have less options, and this sign is wrong, RR does not convey any useful information.
If your new question is how do we make everyone understand the information behind emojis, an automatic translation for them would be handy. I bet that it is what you mean by "turn them off".
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For the exact same reason that you put green/red colors on supervision dashboards instead of "OK", "KO" labels : it gives information that is, at the same time, taking less space and faster to understand (once you are used to).
Here's a sign on the road near my home:
Imagine you couldn't distinguish between red or green?
I was answering the question
what purpose does the little picture serve?.Indeed, disabled people have less options, and this sign is wrong,
RRdoes not convey any useful information.If your new question is
how do we make everyone understand the information behind emojis, an automatic translation for them would be handy. I bet that it is what you mean by "turn them off".