Spectacle8011@lemmy.comfysnug.spacetoProgrammer Humor@lemmy.ml•Ideas for programming rizz?
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1 year agoThe GNU kernel was not originally supposed to be called the Hurd. Its original name was Alix—named after the woman who was my sweetheart at the time. She, a Unix system administrator, had pointed out how her name would fit a common naming pattern for Unix system versions; as a joke, she told her friends, “Someone should name a kernel after me.” I said nothing, but decided to surprise her with a kernel named Alix.
Interesting choice to romanize Japanese. Now you have to figure out which romanization system to use (I was surprised を was romanized as
o
and notwo
). But I do get it, I guess, because you have to wonder it would only use Hiragana or mix Kanji in:Well, for the sake of being international, we should just use Katakana everywhere. That’s the sanest suggestion (who’s with me?):
Of course, you’re kind of screwed on a TTY, since they don’t generally render unicode…so let’s go back to figuring out which romanization system to use.