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There are a lot of competing conventions in the world. Some of them have clear and obvious winners. For example: Year/Month/Day is the correct way to write dates. If you include hour, minute, second, millisecond, etc. - it's always decreasing in size - and this is just generally true of numbers anyway. While we're on the topic of time: the 24-hour clock is just better. It's shorter than tacking on AM/PM, and avoids the temptation to just leave off AM/PM and hope everyone else assumes the correct time. It's weird to have two 3 o'clocks in a day. They aren't related in any way, just give them their own numbers. Brackets should go on new lines. You don't need to save space. It's clearer where a block of code starts. And it just looks more symmetric and therefore nicer. Also, the & and * are part of the variable type and belong next to that, not the variable name, which it has nothing to do with. Oxford comma. I have more solutions to all the world's problems, but I'll just start with these. Tell me other conventions you've found the singular correct solution to.
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Shadow0 posted:There are a lot of competing conventions in the world. Some of them have clear and obvious winners. 2 spaces after a full stop, which is the objectively correct way to post as it makes sentences much more readable.
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Oct 20, 2022 20:57
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X button on Playstation is for Confirm/Select. Circle button is for Back. Japan is wrong on this one.
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Oct 20, 2022 21:00
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Toilet roll facing the front, unless you have a pet who is liable to paw at it, then you are given permission to put it the wrong way.
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Oct 20, 2022 21:14
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sebmojo posted:2 spaces after a full stop, which is the objectively correct way to post as it makes sentences much more readable. I used to do this, but one space makes it flow a lot better!
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Oct 20, 2022 21:24
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Seth Pecksniff posted:I used to do this, but one space makes it flow a lot better! there is no shame in being wrong, modfriend. unfortunately the forum software seems to have a bug where it deletes the additional space! i will have to talk to astral to get it fixed.
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Oct 20, 2022 21:44
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wa27 posted:X button on Playstation is for Confirm/Select. Circle button is for Back. This is correct and the most pressing one to address
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Oct 20, 2022 21:49
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sebmojo posted:there is no shame in being wrong, modfriend. unfortunately the forum software seems to have a bug where it deletes the additional space! i will have to talk to astral to get it fixed. The HTML specification requires consecutive spaces to be displayed as a single space. Quote this post and you'll see that there are two spaces between the sentences even though only one is shown.
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Oct 20, 2022 21:55
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ultrafilter posted:The HTML specification requires consecutive spaces to be displayed as a single space. Quote this post and you'll see that there are two spaces between the sentences even though only one is shown. 
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Oct 20, 2022 21:58
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sebmojo posted:2 spaces after a full stop, which is the objectively correct way to post as it makes sentences much more readable. Doesn't CSS and such obviate the need for this typewriter-era convention? I've seen this all over the place editing papers and it used to drive me nuts to have to check to see that I haven't accidentally missed a space somewhere. Like just have an extra nbsp thrown in after, or adjust the kerning or what have you. There are reasons that content and formatting are separate these days, and most of them are really good ones.
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Oct 20, 2022 22:06
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Putting in two spaces is a lot easier than anything you can do with CSS.
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Oct 20, 2022 22:08
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ultrafilter posted:The HTML specification requires consecutive spaces to be displayed as a single space. Quote this post and you'll see that there are two spaces between the sentences even though only one is shown. 
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Oct 20, 2022 22:09
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I used to do brackets on new lines but my job requires brackets at the end of the current line and now I'm used to it and can't go back.
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Oct 20, 2022 22:09
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ultrafilter posted:Putting in two spaces is a lot easier than anything you can do with CSS. You can't do regex or such stuff with CSS I guess. I haven't messed with that for a while so I have no idea what it's like now. Do you want to extrapolate? My whole position is that it's easier to just do one space at the origin because often times you can't tell if you've missed two spaces as easily as you can miss one. Maybe my eyes are bad?
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Oct 20, 2022 22:11
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Shadow0 posted:For example: i kinda like dd/mm/yyyy just because of the band: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfnEAIbW070
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Oct 20, 2022 22:15
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Modern variable-spaced fonts allow a period glyph to take up less horizontal space. This takes away the need to add an extra space. Typing two spaces is a relic of monospaced typewriters. In particular, monospaced fonts used the same width for a period, so the period didn't sort of glue itself to the last letter, it floated in a gap after it, which made the following space appear shorter. This was addressed with two spaces, although that creates "rivers of white" on the page. It's also possible to detect that a period, space, capital letter has occurred on the page and make the spacing slightly wider. I believe some rendering engines do that. Leperflesh fucked around with this message at 23:23 on Oct 20, 2022 |
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Oct 20, 2022 23:21
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ultrafilter posted:The HTML specification requires consecutive spaces to be displayed as a single space. Quote this post and you'll see that there are two spaces between the sentences even though only one is shown. The single-spacers have infiltrated every corner of society. Their will is now law. sebmojo posted:2 spaces after a full stop, which is the objectively correct way to post as it makes sentences much more readable. Only after periods? What about question marks and exclamation marks and commas and semi-colons? Also, all this time you thought it was more readable; but now you realize they were secretly swapping in single spaces, and you didn't even notice. I feel like that's a strong argument against what your claim of increased readability. Sometimes I see people put spaces before punctuation marks, which is very wrong and bad. When I pressed one of such people to answer for their crimes, they also claimed it was for "readability".
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Oct 20, 2022 23:37
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Shadow0 posted:
Evil poo poo sebmojo posted:2 spaces after a full stop, which is the objectively correct way to post as it makes sentences much more readable. What in the hell is wrong with people on these forums?!
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Oct 21, 2022 00:04
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this is why I like latex. I can throw seven or eight spaces after a period and it'll auto correct that poo poo for me as part of the typesetting process. that way I can type like a real player who doesn't give a gently caress!
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Oct 21, 2022 00:17
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DeeplyConcerned posted:this is why I like latex. I can throw seven or eight spaces after a period and it'll auto correct that poo poo for me as part of the typesetting process. that way I can type like a real player who doesn't give a gently caress!
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Oct 21, 2022 01:53
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ultrafilter posted:The HTML specification requires consecutive spaces to be displayed as a single space. Quote this post and you'll see that there are two spaces between the sentences even though only one is shown. What happens if you throw in ? Will that render out as extra space?
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Oct 21, 2022 02:03
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So you can still double space after a period. You just need to know the code.
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Oct 21, 2022 02:06
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As an IT person, I would like to formally propose that we drop the convention of women changing their names after marriage. Because I am lazy. Also, I think we should write dates like “24/JAN/2022” so there can be no possible confusion.
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Oct 21, 2022 02:29
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Everybody should drive on the left hand side of the road, because I drive on the left hand side of the road, and have scientifically determined that the concept of driving on the right hand side of the road is deeply metaphysically wrong. Also buildings should not be allowed to be taller than three storeys because again, deep metaphysical wrongness ensues if humans are more than that far off the ground. Also mezzanine floors are the work of the devil.
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Oct 21, 2022 02:46
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Sucrose posted:As an IT person, I would like to formally propose that we drop the convention of women changing their names after marriage. Because I am lazy. I would like to request 2022 / 01 JAN / 24 for sorting purposes
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Oct 21, 2022 02:53
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gently caress the Gregorian calendar, Julian date is where it's at. Only need to remember one number.
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Oct 21, 2022 03:10
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sebmojo posted:2 spaces after a full stop, which is the objectively correct way to post as it makes sentences much more readable. 
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Oct 21, 2022 04:41
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oxford comma is good. so it the cereal comma.
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Oct 21, 2022 04:42
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Kelvin is the superior temperature scale. It just makes more sense for day to day use. 0K - really loving cold 100K - also really loving cold 200K - you guessed it, still loving cold 300K - oops it's hot now
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Oct 21, 2022 04:49
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Fister Roboto posted:Kelvin is the superior temperature scale. It just makes more sense for day to day use. Boltzman's "constant" is a completely arbitrary insertion of a a new unit into a system that doesn't need it. Measure temperature in energy units. (Shameful edit) Brutal Garcon fucked around with this message at 05:46 on Oct 21, 2022 |
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Oct 21, 2022 05:15
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Brutal Garcon posted:Blotzman's "constant" Spelling names should be done away with. Just so long as you get 35% of the letters correct, order doesn't even matter, people can probably guess right anyway. We already do it with transliterated names!
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Oct 21, 2022 05:44
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if you pre-registered for a convention you should not have to stand in line to get in, at all. They send you your badge, you walk straight in, and there needs to be enough doors open with enough people looking at badges that there's no slowdown even on day one when the doors open.
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Oct 21, 2022 06:42
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Leperflesh posted:if you pre-registered for a convention you should not have to stand in line to get in, at all. They send you your badge, you walk straight in, and there needs to be enough doors open with enough people looking at badges that there's no slowdown even on day one when the doors open. this works at Costco, so I approve.
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Oct 21, 2022 07:11
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More things in life should be like Costco.
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Oct 21, 2022 07:22
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In my city you always thank the bus driver when you get off* for some reason, I think that is a nice thing to do and should be universal *Disembark
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Oct 21, 2022 07:44
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Do bus drivers actually like that though? I feel like if I was a bus driver I'd get tired of feeling obligated to say you're welcome at every stop a bunch of times.
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Oct 21, 2022 08:07
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Sucrose posted:Also, I think we should write dates like “24/JAN/2022” so there can be no possible confusion. Bel Shazar posted:I would like to request 2022 / 01 JAN / 24 for sorting purposes Shadow0 posted:Year/Month/Day is the correct way to write dates.
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Oct 21, 2022 08:54
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Cicero posted:Do bus drivers actually like that though? I feel like if I was a bus driver I'd get tired of feeling obligated to say you're welcome at every stop a bunch of times. It's better to be irritated by being thanked than to feel like nobody appreciates what you do.
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While I assume that it's just culturally differences, some if these suggestions seem like madness t9 me. Let's try something easier. People should use toilet brushes after using a public toilet. Is that a categorical imperative we may all agree on? Does anybody disagree? cant cook creole bream fucked around with this message at 09:43 on Oct 21, 2022 |
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DeeplyConcerned posted:this is why I like latex. I can throw seven or eight spaces after a period and it'll auto correct that poo poo for me as part of the typesetting process. that way I can type like a real player who doesn't give a gently caress! i like latex because it feels- wait i'm thinking of a completely different thing that is also called that.
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