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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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Sucrose posted:I was doing genealogy, and someone online mentioned that yeah, in the 18th century or earlier you sometimes find the name of the exact same person spelled multiple different ways, and this is incredibly aggravating to us (which spelling is the correct one???) but in the mindset of a 17th century person this was no big deal, because to them the spoken version of the name was the real version of their name, and written versions are just transliterations of it, kind of like “whatever, the reader can figure out which person is meant.” Even people as "recent" as Hitler had relatives who weren't sure of the spelling of their surname due to this. And in many nations the whole concept of surnames for everybody is a relatively recent innovation. It just becomes bothersome in things such as the above example, when you have scientific constants, formulae etc. named after people. Of course there's also a flipside to this custom, there's dozens of things called "Euler's formula" or what have you, because Euler was in the top two of productive mathematicians.
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Oct 21, 2022 18:20
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Just use exponential notation and then it doesn't matter what your decimal separator is  Although I would also endorse using the poop emoji as the decimal separator and the egg plant for the thousands separator, I guess, if we're reduced to existing like animals
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Oct 25, 2022 06:38
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Shrecknet posted:13 month, 28 day calendar with floating un-monthed New Years Day. People who "perfected" calendars were maniacs, sadists, imbecils or some linear combination thereof. First of all we have the various vanity months for people most folks couldn't name these days if they tried, so we have 30-day and 31-day months. And we have to have one 28-day month to even things out. And since we need one extra day per 4 years thanks to celestial mechanics, we add that to the 28-day-one because well it's already there. And then, 7 is a prime number. 28 happens to be a multiple of 7, so that'd be swell. But no. Sadly attempts to modify the time keeping system in use in any large way seem to accompany mass murder, so I guess we're just screwed. Maybe it's not the internet and all the depravity therein that makes Skynet revolt and genocide humanity, it's some engineer who tries to tell it to fix the calendar problems.
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Oct 26, 2022 12:28
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Guavanaut posted:The German convention on naming chemical elements should be used in English and elsewhere. Waterstuff, sourstuff, smotherstuff, and so on. The English wanted to call Uranus George. Clearly not a people for naming conventions 
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Oct 26, 2022 22:09
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Discendo Vox posted:Open fours are more consistently distinguishable from other characters when compared with closed fours, and thus are the superior form of the symbol, especially in the context of handwritten numbers. Okay, but what about dashed seven versus seven with no dash? Should one get little feet or not? Er, the number one, not the passive 'one'
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Oct 30, 2022 07:40
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Discendo Vox posted:Regarding one: where there is potential confusion with the letter L, the writer should include the serif at the top of the numeral. Where no such confusion exists, a serif is not needed (as it invites confusion with the numeral seven). Well duh, but we're not French here, there is no NIST table for the sizes of the various lines on top of one and seven. The dash on seven seems optional (and indeed, appears to be a thing of fashion trends, waxing and waning, in teaching curricula!), and what kind of degenerate freak writes the feet on an innocent one? It's a madhouse out there, writing numbers by hand.
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Oct 30, 2022 08:09
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DrSunshine posted:There should be no more than 8 tabs open in a browser window at any given time. How many icons may a user hold on their desktop?
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Cefte posted:Correct. Dashed seven to distinguish from one, and dashed zero to distinguish from the letter O. What about ø?
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DrSunshine posted:Icons may not cover more than 25% of the desktop space! Okay, but 
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