Good to see that most of the instances have caught up

LW announced they are planning to migrate in the coming weeks: !lemmyworld@lemmy.world

    • woelkchen@lemmy.worldM
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      11 months ago

      19.0 and 19.1 mostly, 19.2 fixed the issues.

      The leading zeros aren’t decorative. Don’t just drop them.

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          11 months ago

          In this context it’s just faster to type

          If saving six characters is so crucial, type “.0”, “.1”, and “.2”. Massive productivity boost.

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              11 months ago

              You could also drop the “.” in this case, saving another three.

              Even better: drop the number.

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                11 months ago

                That’s one step too far, though. There’d be no way to distinguish them without that number.

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                  11 months ago

                  Oh, you were actually serious? I thought we’re making dumb jokes here with claims of willy nilly dropping digits from a version number being significantly faster to type.

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                    11 months ago

                    Well, semi-serious. Doing this to “save characters” is obviously silly, we’ve spent way more characters discussing how to save characters than could possibly have been saved (and it’s not a valuable “savings” regardless). But I was paying attention to the practicality, because IMO the best silly things are things you can take seriously.