RecluseRamble

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[–] RecluseRamble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Especially not discord you mean.

[–] RecluseRamble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

I've been using Linux as my main driver for a couple of years now but I didn't know the list of reserved file name characters is so short.

I didn't believe '*' is allowed. That alone is so error-prone, it's insane. Backslash is allowed too - how do you escape that? Sometimes I think they giggled while writing the specs.

[–] RecluseRamble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Only the early ones. By definition millenials are birth years 1981 to 1996, so the last ones were 11 when the first iPhone released.

I think every generation has their percentage of nerds and that just was a little higher in late Gen X and early millenials because computers were so new and you had to tinker to get anything working.

[–] RecluseRamble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Funny that you chose an architect. Since they are basically document producers (also software architects), they tend to be able to type pretty proficiently.

[–] RecluseRamble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

That's like 80% autocorrect anyway (I didn't write a single word correctly in this sentence).

[–] RecluseRamble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Not sure how this is a crime... breach of TOS, sure, but a crime?

What law is being broken here?

Not curious enough to actually read the article, eh?

Indicted on three counts involving money laundering and wire fraud

One may argue about money laundering but it's pretty clearly fraud.

[–] RecluseRamble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 2 months ago

"It's tricky now because satire has become reality," he said. "We were really trying to make fun of what was going on but we couldn't keep up, and what was actually happening was much funnier than anything we could come up with.

That is true though. Especially during his first candidacy when most outside the US never heard of him yet he seemed to have jumped right out of a caricature. We only stopped laughing when he actually won.

[–] RecluseRamble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

27,000 and 1.5

Why do 27 and 000 belong closer together than 1 and 5? Both numbers are incomplete when leaving out a component.

You can argue either way honestly

Agreed, it's completely arbitrary.

more of the world use periods for decimal notation

It's two pretty large groups but you've got India and China, so population wise it's pretty clear. Let's make a deal: we (Europe) switch to the dot as decimal separator if the US switches to metric.

[–] RecluseRamble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Having a full stop between thousands is just as stupid. It's completely arbitrary. It's only unfortunate that it's yet another difference hindering communication (and numbers parsing, dammit)

[–] RecluseRamble@lemmy.dbzer0.com -1 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Commas are literally for separating related ideas in a single sentence.

While I personally think it's arbitrary which characters to use as separators I can't follow that logic.

Thinking of sentences, a comma separates stuff that belongs together while a dot is literally a full stop. All of the comma/dot separated parts belong to the same number though. So, why are thousands/millions more closely related than integers/digits?

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