- lustyargonian ( @lustyargonian@lemm.ee ) 25•2 months ago
If you love me meet me at first floor
Americans 😢 British 🤷♂️
- ddh ( @DarkDarkHouse@lemmy.sdf.org ) English25•2 months ago
It’s for the best
- Anna ( @AnnaFrankfurter@lemmy.ml ) 21•2 months ago
Hey, if she thinks 1 is 1st index then you
doggeddodged a bullet and deserve better.Happy now all you English majors.
- Bob ( @MadBob@feddit.nl ) 21•2 months ago
you dogged a bullet
😳
- sasquash ( @sasquash@sopuli.xyz ) 20•2 months ago
maybe she’s a lua developer
- PeriodicallyPedantic ( @PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca ) 18•2 months ago
🙅 zeroth, first, second, third
👉 Zerost, onest, twost, threest- psud ( @psud@aussie.zone ) 1•2 months ago
Good luck standardizing English
- PeriodicallyPedantic ( @PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca ) 3•2 months ago
Englist*
- Tlaloc_Temporal ( @Tlaloc_Temporal@lemmy.ca ) 2•2 months ago
Northern England just got a new nickname.
- sgibson5150 ( @sgibson5150@slrpnk.net ) 12•2 months ago
Wouldn’t it be nice if documentation used the words index and offset consistently?
- Zagorath ( @Zagorath@aussie.zone ) 2•2 months ago
Aren’t those two the same thing? At least in C-style arrays, which might not be how they’re handled under the hood, but is at least how most languages present it to the programmer.
- ReversalHatchery ( @ReversalHatchery@beehaw.org ) English3•2 months ago
in my understanding offset is technically the “relative index”, or how much you have to go further
- LillyPip ( @LillyPip@lemmy.ca ) 12•2 months ago
DROP TABLE 01;
- Lettuce eat lettuce ( @Lettuceeatlettuce@lemmy.ml ) 10•2 months ago
I still mess this up for lists in Python…
- Zwiebel ( @Zwiebel@feddit.org ) English10•2 months ago
I love how they’re looking at each other
- PolarisFx ( @PolarisFx@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) 4•2 months ago
God yes, you can clearly see from the background scene that while at different tables they can clearly see each other. All this bickering is madness
- NigelFrobisher ( @NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone ) 6•2 months ago
This thread is a great example of why they don’t like to let (most) software developers talk to the customers.
- tunetardis ( @tunetardis@lemmy.ca ) English4•2 months ago
This could be why Obiwan wound up a hermit? (Programmers of my generation at least talk about “Obiwan errors” because his name sounds like “off-by-one”.)
- CanadaPlus ( @CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org ) 4•2 months ago
Why the fuck would you spell it “1st” if it’s not 1?
Edit: Which is not pronounced “onest”. I think people might be missing the point here; I’m actually a fan of zero indexing.
- 0ops ( @0ops@lemm.ee ) 8•2 months ago
I feel like the joke would’ve landed better if it said “first”. I know it’s pronounced the same way, but I’m gonna argue anyway that there’s a subtle difference. I’ve heard 0th used in cs to describe what was at the 0-index, so in that context 1st would be"second", but “first” generally means “nothing before it”. English is weird. I wonder if anyone knows whether the word “first” or “1st” came 1st (lol)?
- CanadaPlus ( @CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org ) 2•2 months ago
Ordinal vs. cardinal. It’s “first” not “onest”, right? Even the ancient proto-Germanic speakers could tell there’s a difference. (In fact, it’s basically a contraction of “foremost”, and has nothing to do with numbers; their weak numeracy was an advantage on this topic)
If we weren’t implicitly choosing 1-indexing it would be 1nd for “second” (and still not “onend” or something). That breaks down once you get to third and fourth, though.
- Umbrias ( @Umbrias@beehaw.org ) 1•2 months ago
programmer linguistigs is certainly something to behold.
- CanadaPlus ( @CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org ) 1•2 months ago
Fun fact, Noam Chomsky’s linguistic theories were and are the foundation of parsing.
- psud ( @psud@aussie.zone ) 1•2 months ago
They said 1st as an abbreviation of first (it’s a normal abbreviation 1st, 2nd, 3rd … 7th abbreviate first, second, third … seventh)
- CanadaPlus ( @CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org ) 1•2 months ago
Sure, but you have to see how it’s an own goal if you’re showing up to table 0.
- HiddenLayer555 ( @HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml ) English3•2 months ago
Easy solution: Switch to table UUIDs.
- No_Money_Just_Change ( @No_Money_Just_Change@feddit.org ) Deutsch3•2 months ago
Plot twist, neither cared about the table number
One went to the first table produced, the other to the first table placed
- lugal ( @lugal@sopuli.xyz ) 2•2 months ago
What more can I say