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this post was submitted on 20 Jul 2025
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Big brain tech dude got yet another clueless take over at HackerNews etc? Here's the place to vent. Orange site, VC foolishness, all welcome.
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The guy who thinks it's important to communicate clearly (https://awful.systems/comment/7904956) wants to flip the number order around
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/KXr8ys8PYppKXgGWj/english-writes-numbers-backwards
I'll consider that when the Yanks abandon middle-endian date formatting.
Edit it's now tagged as "Humor" on LW. Cowards. Own your cranks.
damn, a clanker pretending to be a human. humans read entire words at once, and this includes numbers, length and first digit already give some indication of magnitude
Yes, and largest place value is literally called the most significant digit. It makes perfect sense that it comes first.
i like how on lw there's a comment saying exactly the same thing but 5x more verbose