98.7% of respondents to a consultation favoured using metric as the main measurement unit for sales

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The fake speaker DevTernity scandal is wild.

Why try and invite women to speak at your conference when you can just create fake female speaker profiles instead?

theregister.com/2023/11/28/dev

Cats have the audacity to dunk their tail in your coffee then complain about it like it's your fault their tail now tastes like coffee. โ˜•๐Ÿฑ

Can't believe it's been 12 years since Skyrim was released.

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"Quotation marks" change shape, position, and orientation from one language to another. In this map, we show the symbols to quote direct speech.

mapologies.com/symbols/

#quote #Denmark #dansk #symbols #writting #quotationmark #map #mapologies #culture #LanguageLearning #maps

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This week's the week -- it's #GNU40! Tomorrow, September 27, is the GNU Hacker's Meeting in Biel, Switzerland, and this Sunday, October 1, is Hackday in Boston, MA. Read more: u.fsf.org/40k #FreeSoftware #GNU #GNUforty #SoftwareLibre #Hackday #HappyHacking

Wife has COVID and I'm starting to feel sick too. ๐Ÿ˜ฟ

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The BBC creates news stories in more than 40 languages. So earlier this year we built a prototype to help keep track of them. bbcnewslabs.co.uk/projects/mat

English spelling is awful especially for someone with dyslexia:

  • Each is a word 2๏ธโƒฃ
  • Teach is also fine… :teacher:
  • Peach is correct ๐Ÿ‘
  • but Speach isn’t a word… ๐Ÿ™Š
  • It is spelt Speech ๐Ÿ—ฃ๏ธ
  • And Leech ๐Ÿ›
  • Even better, Breech and Breach are both words and homophones so good luck with that… ๐Ÿคท

I wonder if is less of an issue with languages that actually have consistency and phonetic spellings….

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New programmer excuse:

"BRB my #Emacs packages are native compiling."

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And yes, I'm following the long standing UK tradition of complaining we don't get any good weather all summer then immediately complaining when we do get some sun.

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When reading Hex numbers how do you pronounce them?

For example I've been saying 1F as F-teen.

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