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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 [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 54 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (3 children)

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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[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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."

[–] [email protected] 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.)

[–] [email protected] 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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago (1 children)

from languages in actual use today

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Nuh uh