xkcd #2954: Bracket Symbols
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’"‘”’" means "I edited this text on both my phone and my laptop before sending it"
https://xkcd.com/2954/Open linkView original on discuss.tchncs.de440
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’"‘”’" means "I edited this text on both my phone and my laptop before sending it"
https://xkcd.com/2954/Open linkView original on discuss.tchncs.de
You're read something written by a right wing lunatic (Wiki )
I knew there was a reason I didn't like Lisp.
I know you're memeing, but if I know my Lisp, just wrapping something in triple parens implies evaluating it three times. So you have an expression evaluating to a producer that produces another producer that finally produces a value?
I'm sure there's a legit use case for it. I just can't think of one.
((( )))
Feeling called out for having a favourite monospaced font.
Fira Code
Do tell!
fira mono
Have my code editor terminal lemmy etc in it.
That's a good one!
JetBrains Mono
No one with Cascadia Code?
Commit Mono
mononoki but only because the Doom Emacs config I followed when I switched to Linux used it.Ubuntu Mono ftw!
Mine is IBM Plex Mono, but the nerdfont 'Blex' variety.
No ```
Markdown quotation marks```No „down-up quotation marks“
And worst of all, no marks for the 「regular attack」, 『finishing move』and
Not the ultimate LIMIT BREAF
límít breah
No IPA notation? ⸨I'm somewhat disappointed⸩
Can it only be used while drunk?
))<>(( Back and forth forever.
I wish I could upvote this forever.
I don't get the "Someone British is talking" bit
We only use the singular ' to indicate speech within speech -
John said, "I was just speaking to Charlie, and he said 'It's not often XKCD gets things wrong', and I agreed".
I could be wrong but that's what I was taught
From wiki
Huh, just shows you how I was taught the British way many years ago, but adopted the American way due to reading so many bloody books!
Old British person here, I was always taught double quotation marks for speech and single quotation marks for actually quoting something.
Pull out your closest volume of Lord of the Rings and take a look. My copy at least has single-quotes for the speech text and double-quotes are used for nested speech. I guess it might be up to the publisher (eg: my copy of Harry Potter has been "Americanized" and thus uses double-quotes for the first level of speech text), but every copy of LotR i've run across uses single-quotes.
I heard somewhere it was to save ink.
Maybe they were pulling my leg.
InconsolataDZ. Fuck.
Fira Code with ligatures
Hack (with Nerd Font patch)
Mine is
monospace( . )( . ) means titties
8008135
...I do have a favorite monospace font. Its Monaspace Krypton
Oooh, I like it (Link for anyone else who's curious)
People who have Opinions on monospace fonts may enjoy https://www.codingfont.com/
Programmingfonts.org is another one if you just want to check some out.
The python function is some sort of brainfuck?
It's a list with a tuple, with a list with an empty dictionary. I'm not sure the innermost parenthesis is legal there.
Edit: Well, I tested it. It's legal.
{()}is just a set with an empty tuple instead of a dictionary.This sounds like something I would do with all of 40 hours or so of Python-esque programming under my belt. I feel like there has to be a better way, but it worked. I'm worried this might be the best way.
Ouch. If you ever catches yourself writing something like this, stop. Intermediate values deserve names too. Even Haskell developers wouldn't go into such extreme namelessness.
People reading decompiled inlined code: "wait this isn't normal?"