• randy@lemmy.ca
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    10 days ago

    everyone should know how to read/write/type the capital omega because of electrical resistance

    https://xkcd.com/2501/

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        10 days ago

        This is America. We are taught as little as possible in school. I promise you less than 10% of teachers know how to make an omega symbol on a computer let alone know how to teach that to a kid who has only interacted with an iPhone.

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          10 days ago

          Teachers use computers?

          My teachers didnt even know how to make a folder

          I thought the person i responded to was referring to drawing on paper

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        10 days ago

        I concede that very few people bother to learn the sequence or create a keybinding to symbols used at school. However, every keyboard that has a searchable emoji picker should also index the rest of Unicode in my opinion.

        Custom keybindings I use the most are (in no particular order) πµΩαβγΔ²³±√∞≤≥≠∈⋮⌀∙█⚠☢☣♥⚙✔✖❗←↑→↓·ẞ, nbsp and hair space. There is also ☃ (Shift+AltGr+8) as an XKCD reference.

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            9 days ago

            Thinnest Unicode whitespace. In my headcanon, the Czech language uses it as the preferred thousands separator (though some people prefer thin space, and most people just use space or nbsp) and I sometimes use it in German and English too because it’s unambiguous.

            Example uses:
            3 141 592 653.589
            s u b t l e   k e r n i n g