AFAIK it's an autistic person thing (correlating with hackers (for obvious reasons)) to go on little thought tangents (like this one) all the time and parentheses are how you express that in text (much easier than writing prose (effectively delineates the tangent and allows the reader to skip over it)) (yes I'm autistic myself) (yes I'm deliberately exaggerating the effect)
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AFAIK it's an autistic person thing (correlating with hackers (for obvious reasons)) to go on little thought tangents (like this one) all the time and parentheses are how you express that in text (much easier than writing prose (effectively delineates the tangent and allows the reader to skip over it)) (yes I'm autistic myself) (yes I'm deliberately exaggerating the effect)