• TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    Cyrillic often gets faux Cyrillic which irritate Russian-speakers. But Cyrillic is based from Greek letters which is now getting faux Greek. It has come full circle!

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      18 hours ago

      Instructions unclear, the woman at the pharmacy called security when I started inquiring about their phtirs to clean my ears while angrily swatting every box of qtips she handed me.

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          Hel don’t even need to get real ancient for that shit. The Bear warriors, Wolf warriors, and presumably Boar warriors were a thing up until old Norse paganism was driven into being secretive.

          The boar warriors are weird and we aren’t even sure if they existed into the Viking age, while Bear warriors and Wolf warriors are written about the Boar warriors are obscure at best. Most of their documentation is from Roman reliefs which depict all three of the warrior cults. Though they may have just been hyper obscure preferring to stick to the most wild of lands and avoid civilization when possible.

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    While we’re on Greek: the Greeks don’t use a standard “?” as a question mark. They use “;” which look almost identical to a semicolon, but isn’t. You can see the difference when they’re side by side. (Greek semicolons first)

    ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;

    But, apparently in fixed-width fonts they can look identical:

    ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;

    Where this could be really interesting is code, where someone might cause a lot of confusion by using something that appears to be a semicolon but which the language treats as just another non-special character.

    Here’s how this post looks for me:

    semicolon or greek question mark; depends on your font

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      Unfortunately with my display it looks literally identical so I have no idea what the difference is even supposed to be .-.

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      Same thing on my PC:

      If anything, the second row looks a bit easier to distinguish here. I guess it’s the opposite on mobile.

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        Interesting. For me it’s the opposite, I can’t see any difference in the fixed width font, but it’s different in the variable width one.

        Fonts. Full of mysteries.

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      I had no idea, learning coding is probably very funny for little while.

      print(“hello world”)?

      Computer: no I don’t think I will.

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        Javascript would have no problem with it. Semicolons are already kinda optional in there, and having tons of question marks in your code is also pretty normal. ie:

        input?.map(item => !!item?.name ? item : item?.toString() ?? "New Item")

        Just means: If the variable named “input” has a function named .map(), which is usually the case if it’s an array, you go through that array and transform its elements in the following way:

        • is your element an object that has the property “name” and that property isn’t undefined, null or 0? (the “!!” is a double negation that would force undefined, null and 0 to evaluate to false through type coercion)?

        • if yes ( the syntax " ___ ? ___ : ___ " is a shorthand for an if-else statement) then just add that whole item to your output array.

        • if not, try to call the .toString() function on your item. If that works then that’s your result, if not then your output is the string “New Item” ( the “??” is called the nullish coalescing operator - if the left side of the ?? evaluates to undefined or null, it takes the right–hand side value instead. The “?.” part is called optional chaining and will evaluate to undefined if you try to call a function that doesn’t exist on that type)

        • oh yeah, and if input isnt an array to begin with and doesn’t have a .map() function? We just do nothing and move on without complaining. JS truly does not give a fuck.

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          You missed a ‘?’ I think you meant:

          input?.map?.(item => …

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            oh, you’re right lol
            The first ?. after input would be more more of a safeguard against input being null/undefined and the .map not existing on it would have to have another ?.

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          Yeah c# has null propagation and null coale aswell. But I imagen Greeks learning programming having fun with it for a little while.