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xkcd #2954: Bracket Symbols (xkcd.com)
submitted 4 months ago by schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de to c/xkcd@lemmy.world
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’"‘”’" means "I edited this text on both my phone and my laptop before sending it"

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[-] nerdovic@feddit.de 55 points 4 months ago 
((( )))

You're read something written by a right wing lunatic (Wiki )

[-] Technus@lemmy.zip 34 points 4 months ago

I knew there was a reason I didn't like Lisp.

[-] lennivelkant@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 4 months ago

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.

[-] TheBat@lemmy.world 7 points 4 months ago

All banks are run by ([{them}])

Who's them?

The board of directors, duh

[-] MonkderDritte@feddit.de 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

((( )))


What bash, that's Lisp. Source is marked as bash.

edit: seems like lemmy has a bug with quoted sourcecode? I'll leave it like this.
[-] muntedcrocodile@lemm.ee 53 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Feeling called out for having a favourite monospaced font.

[-] redxef@feddit.de 13 points 4 months ago

Fira Code

[-] sundray@lemmus.org 6 points 4 months ago

Do tell!

[-] muntedcrocodile@lemm.ee 9 points 4 months ago

fira mono

Have my code editor terminal lemmy etc in it.

[-] sundray@lemmus.org 1 points 4 months ago

That's a good one!

[-] jbk@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 4 months ago

No one with Cascadia Code?

[-] rtxn@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago

mononoki but only because the Doom Emacs config I followed when I switched to Linux used it.

[-] Hellstormy@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

Ubuntu Mono ftw!

[-] metallic_z3r0@infosec.pub 1 points 4 months ago

Mine is IBM Plex Mono, but the nerdfont 'Blex' variety.

[-] pelya@lemmy.world 29 points 4 months ago

No ``` Markdown quotation marks ```

No „down-up quotation marks“

And worst of all, no marks for the 「regular attack」, 『finishing move』and

 ﹃
 𝖑
 𝖎
 𝖒
 𝖎
 𝖙

 𝖇
 𝖗
 𝖊
 𝖆
 𝖐
﹄
[-] Passerby6497@lemmy.world 11 points 4 months ago

Not the ultimate LIMIT BREAF

[-] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 4 months ago

límít breah

[-] Audalin@lemmy.world 25 points 4 months ago

No IPA notation? ⸨I'm somewhat disappointed⸩

[-] Natanael@slrpnk.net 7 points 4 months ago

Can it only be used while drunk?

[-] Mostly_Gristle@lemmy.world 24 points 4 months ago

))<>(( Back and forth forever.

[-] EvilBit@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago

I wish I could upvote this forever.

[-] Hugh_Jeggs@lemm.ee 17 points 4 months ago

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

[-] sundray@lemmus.org 16 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

The use of quotation marks, also called inverted commas, is very slightly complicated by the fact that there are two types: single quotes (` ') and double quotes (" "). As a general rule, British usage has in the past usually preferred single quotes for ordinary use, but double quotes are now increasingly common; American usage has always preferred double quotes.

[-] Hugh_Jeggs@lemm.ee 5 points 4 months ago

British English often uses single quotation marks to identify the outermost text of a primary quotation versus double quotation marks for inner, nested quotations.

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!

[-] Codandchips@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

Old British person here, I was always taught double quotation marks for speech and single quotation marks for actually quoting something.

[-] deo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 4 months ago

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.

[-] Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

I heard somewhere it was to save ink.

Maybe they were pulling my leg.

[-] _stranger_@lemmy.world 10 points 4 months ago

InconsolataDZ. Fuck.

[-] dev_null@lemmy.ml 5 points 4 months ago

Fira Code with ligatures

[-] Maestro@fedia.io 4 points 4 months ago

Hack (with Nerd Font patch)

[-] konalt@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

Mine is monospace

[-] morphballganon@lemmy.world 10 points 4 months ago

( . )( . ) means titties

[-] bobs_monkey@lemm.ee 3 points 4 months ago

8008135

[-] MonkderDritte@feddit.de 5 points 4 months ago

The python function is some sort of brainfuck?

[-] marcos@lemmy.world 8 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

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.

[-] GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca 3 points 4 months ago

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.

[-] marcos@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

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.

[-] FierySpectre@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

People reading decompiled inlined code: "wait this isn't normal?"

[-] Agent641@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago

...I do have a favorite monospace font. Its Monaspace Krypton

[-] AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.net 7 points 4 months ago

Oooh, I like it (Link for anyone else who's curious)

People who have Opinions on monospace fonts may enjoy https://www.codingfont.com/

[-] JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Programmingfonts.org is another one if you just want to check some out.

[-] zeekaran@sopuli.xyz 1 points 4 months ago
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