• skulblaka
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      714 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.

      • @[email protected]
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        414 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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      13 days ago

      I concede that very few people bother to learn the sequence or create a keybinding to symbols used at school. You can copy/paste if you only need it rarely, or use a software symbol selector (its icon in Word and Sheets is literally Ω). 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) πµΩαβγΔΣσ²³±√∞≤≥≠∈⋮⌀∙█⚠☢☣♥⚙✔✖❗←↑→↓·–ẞ, nbsp and hair space. There is also ☃ (Shift+AltGr+8) as an XKCD reference.

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          213 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

          • madjo
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            113 days ago

            That’s awesome! I had never heard of it. going to see if I can incorporate it in my daily use

      • @[email protected]
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        313 days ago

        I took computer science class in Germany and currently study the same at university and I have no fucking clue what the code for Omega is and frankly I don’t think I should.