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mindcrime on April 18, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: What is the origin of “daemon” with regards to com...

I say day-mon because it's less alarming for non-technical people and less ambiguous for technical people.

Same. Even though it's probably technically incorrect in some pedantic sense, this pronunciation just makes more sense to me.

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