•  Feydaikin   ( @Faydaikin@beehaw.org ) 
      12•13 days ago

      Without knowing anything about it, I’d wager that it’s generally not a good idea to mess around too much with a hive.

      And picking out a bunch of drones in the amount used in film would no doubt rile up the swarm.

      The way they do it is likely the best, safest and least invasive way of using live bees in a film setting.

      •  zagaberoo   ( @zagaberoo@beehaw.org ) 
        27•13 days ago

        I’d love to hear what’s objectively ‘wrong’ with this one. They’re arbitrary symbols. If anything, isn’t the decimal more akin to a full stop, while a digit separator is more of a pause?

          •  zagaberoo   ( @zagaberoo@beehaw.org ) 
            29•13 days ago

            Introduces confusion how? Because it doesn’t agree with the arbitrary convention you happened to grow up with? Why is your preferred convention not equally objectively bad? I thought Americans were supposed to be the egotists.

          •  warm   ( @warm@kbin.earth ) 
            15•13 days ago

            If we are being pedantic, technically you should use a space to separate the thousands (e.g. $27 000), as this avoids the ambiguity.

            If we ignore that and only focus on comma (,) and period (.) decimal notations, then period for decimals would win out, as the larger majority of the world population use it. So $27,000.00 would be the correct way.

            But until the whole world agrees on one, we are stuck with multiple, so you can just rub your two brain cells together and realise that the 3 trailing zeroes probably mean it is in the thousands (along with the rest of the context).

            (no shade at the original comment, which was clearly tongue in cheek, idk why it is downvoted lol it was funny)

            •  Zagorath   ( @Zagorath@aussie.zone ) 
              2•13 days ago

              (e.g. $27 000)

              Ok so they’re winning $27, but I thought it was filmed in America, not Australia. Shouldn’t that be $27 911?

              /s, obviously.

              But more seriously, yeah a space is brilliant. But you shouldn’t use U+0020, the space you get when you press spacebar. It’s awkwardly wide for this purpose, and more importantly it can break the number over two lines if it happens to line up that way.

              The best alternative is U+202F, which is both narrower and non-breaking. Wikipedia claims that the official SI recommended character for thousands separation is U+2009, the thin but breaking space, but I read their source and did not see this supported. It seemed to just say space, without specifying which type of space. There is of course also U+00A0, the no-break normal-width space. Any of these would be better than U+0020.

              The problem is them being difficult to type, which is probably why most people tend towards the comma instead. It’s automatically non-breaking and doesn’t have the awkward wideness of U+0020.

              Incidentally, SI specifically allows for either the comma or the point to be used as the decimal separator. As long as the thousands separator is a space, this can introduce no ambiguity.

            •  BlackLaZoR   ( @BlackLaZoR@fedia.io ) 
              1•13 days ago

              If we are being pedantic, technically you should use a space to separate the thousands

              Exactly. Space doesn’t introduce confusion no matter what sign is used as decimal separator. It’s a such a simple, elegant solution, world would be a better place if people were acrually using it.