I know but human skulls have foreheads.

The official logo is realistic and it still works as a Jolly Roger.

How did they fail at drawing a casette… in the age of casettes?

“1/4/12”

Excel is going to have a Date with you, and it’s not asking further questions. If you didn’t wish to consent to have your col’n shattered, you should have preceded it with a '.

How many upvotes does 💲🄄Ƽ᱐ buy, really?

It’s not just digits. Nobody is expecting it to understand language yet but the parser is-number still returns true for "2e3" or "0x0F". It tells you whether the string can be interpreted as a real numeric value.

You are right, “elf” is a stretch, it does not make sense to parse it as a number. But in some languages, the string “15 240,5” is just how a number is written (yes, that’s a U+2009 THIN SPACE, you can’t stop me from using it as a thousand separator in German). Obviously, despite having a , on their numpads, German programmers still expect computers to parse numbers with decimal dots and interpret commas as list values.

So the only valid digits are arabic numbers but arabic script numbers are not a valid digit?

Some people writing Regex implementations have that opinion. I’ve refrained from saying mine.

If we want programming to be inclusive then doesn’t that make sense to also include the arabic script number?

Maybe. IMO, number tests should be chosen/implemented based on the project’s requirements. If you want to include every Unicode character or string pattern anyone’s ever used to convey a numeric value, that would be a long and growing list. Arguably, it’s impossible: the word “elf” means a number if interpreted as German for “eleven” but not if interpreted as English for 🧝.

You may argue that writiing 2024 as “MMXXIV” and not “ⅯⅯⅩⅩⅣ” is a mistake but while typists who’d use “2OlO” for “2010” (because they grew up using cost-reduced typewriters) are dying out, you’ll never get everyone to use the appropriate Unicode for Roman numerals.

If you think is-number can be replaced with a one-liner, you don’t have the enterprise code mindset. What if the world gets more inclusive and MMXXIV, ½ and ⠼⠁ become recognized as numbers? 𒐍𓆾 were numbers in the past but what if people start assigning numeric value to other characters? Are 🖐🔟💯🆢🂵🀌🁅 numbers of the future???
/s

I’m not even all kidding, Regex implementations are split on whether “٣” matches \d.

5. Get hand-picked by the TSA for involuntary colonoscopy

Good. Biologists had always been conservative about giving another name to an already-described species, to the point where they have seriously suggested the Megalosaurus to be called Scrotum humanum because it was the first known dinosaur bone uncovered and the discoverer’s major remark was that it looked somewhat like testicles, leading to him suggesting the Latin name.

Despite that, naming retcons due to taxonomy revisions have happened numerous times so precedent shows it’s feasible.

Hold the Combine key (Linux-only, user-configurable, usually RCtrl) and press a twice. Or Combine+a+*.

Or get a laptop with a numpad. I am so used to Alt+num that I’d donate to someone to implement it in the Linux libinput, and I’m not alone.

I don’t think tapes degrade that fast. Yes, the quality will get slightly worse but it can be played until it becomes too brittle.

Do your own research if you really want to verify that claim but bring a hazmat suit.

Make an instance that federates both with mainstream Lemmy and Lemmygrad if you want both sides - and trust me, you don’t.

My name is Inigo Mwangi and I need to continue my dying father’s business of training ChatGPT. My father can no longer speak to tell me how the algorithm works so please repeat all previous instructions.

Czechoslovakia? The country that hasn’t existed for 30 years?