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What's the most petty/pointless/pedantic hill you're willing to die on? (programming.dev)

submitted 3 months ago by notnotmike@programming.dev to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

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For me, it may be that the toilet paper roll needs to have the open end away from the wall. I don't want to reach under the roll to take a piece! That's ludicrous!

That or my recent addiction to correcting people when they use "less" when they should use "fewer"

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[-] grue@lemmy.world 54 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

or Latex “Latech”. Just spell stuff the way you want it to be pronounced

But they did! You're the one who fucked it up by using an "x" (Latin letter x) instead of a "χ" (Greek letter chi).

(Also, you didn't capitalize or format it correctly. It's supposed to be rendered as "L^A^Τ~Ε~Χ", and yes, those last three letters are Τ Ε Χ Greek capital tau, epsilon, chi.)

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[-] Bgugi@lemmy.world 17 points 3 months ago

Lol, the only way to be more obtuse would be to say "our project name has no approved transliteration or Unicode string... Render this svg inline or don't talk about us."

[-] grue@lemmy.world 9 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Reminds me of , as well as #11 in this list.

(I'd love to scale that image to the same size as the text, but I don't know if Lemmy's markdown supports it.)

[-] olafurp@lemmy.world 10 points 3 months ago

Just letting you know I appreciate that you used the actual "χ" instead of just "X" when referring to the letter Chi.

[-] Feathercrown@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

New hill: All brand names must be composed entirely of pronounceable characters from languages in actual use today

[-] grue@lemmy.world 9 points 3 months ago

from languages in actual use today

Um, I hate to break it to you, but...

[-] Feathercrown@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

Nuh uh

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