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As an aside, it is amusing that the younger generation engineers phrase it as "calculating GPS coordinates" rather than "latitude/longitude"

Sort of like calling a bank teller "an ATM without the machine"

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In a sense, they are right. There are several coordinate systems, but the one everyone uses (WGS84) was developed around the time of GPS and intended to be used for that purpose.

So GPS coordinates isn’t really a bad way to describe them.

Technically if they’re only using Google Maps they’re probably working off a projection of that coordinate system (Web Mercator).

This is not what the anybody was remotely talking about, but I am feeling pedantic, and I thought it a fun fact. GPS native coordinates are actually a 3d Cartesian grid, however polar coordinates are so much more convenient to us living as we are on the surface of a sphere, I don't think anything outside of the deep internals of a gps receiver use the raw ecef coordinate system.

https://www.e-education.psu.edu/geog862/node/1793

A while back I saw web feeds described as “like podcasts, but for reading”.

I've recently discovered that you can buy audiobook transcripts.

That sounds like a boo… wait a minute

Whoa, a printed ebook!

And a TTRPG (table-top RPG) is like a RPG, but played using pencils and paper and dice instead of on a computer or console.

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