• @El_guapazo
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    2612 hours ago

    ASCII a stupid question and you get a stupid ANSI

  • Logi
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    1511 hours ago

    You sure it wasn’t IBM time travellers from 1985 sent her to ebcdic you?

    • @toynbee
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      910 hours ago

      Lemmy is the only place I’ve seen EBCDIC referenced, other than the college class that introduced me to it.

      Lemmy is for sure the only place where I’ve seen a JOKE about it. Nerd.

      I like you.

      • JackbyDev
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        59 hours ago

        I worked for a credit bureau for a while and a product we had used a mainframe for billing customers. So the billing file was in EBCDIC.

        • @toynbee
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          59 hours ago

          Financial and health institutions are famously behind the times.

  • @[email protected]
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    910 hours ago

    Someone once told me that JWT is pronounced “jot”, so I do. People call me a lunatic for it, but I still do.

      • @[email protected]
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        16 hours ago

        calls out a dumb pronunciation of a word Guy who obviously pronounces it the dumb way just so he can feel superior to others - “kill yourself”. Totally normal behavior.

        • @[email protected]
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          Oooooh is that what it means?

          Btw you didn’t get your formatting right, maybe should work on that before calling others dumb.

          • @[email protected]
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            I didnt call anyone dumb. If youre taking it personally that people think pronouncing GIF, an acronym that stands for Graphical (with a hard G) image format, "jif"is dumb, then maybe you should examine why the pronunciation of that word is such an integral part of your identity. But if you’re so proud of the trivial knowledge that you read in a sentence on a website that you feel the need to lord it over others and consider it a personal affront when people think its silly, then yes maybe you are dumb.

  • Atelopus-zeteki
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    1918 hours ago

    The joke is that ‘isekai’ in Japanese translates to “another world” in English. 1985 was truly another world, as anyone who was there might attest.

  • @LovableSidekick
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    414 hours ago

    I’ve also heard “A S C I 2” which seems really weird.

  • @De_Narm
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    1118 hours ago

    Quick, I need an American. How do you guys pronounce ‘isekai’? Going off the correct Japanese pronunciation this post does not make any sense. These things aren’t even close in the way I say them.

    • @Khanzarate
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      3218 hours ago

      ih-seh-kai, and ASCII like ass-key. They aren’t close, to me.

      • southsamurai
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        That’s ass-sea, you Neanderthal!

        It’s much funnier that way, as any right thinking human knows ;)

        • @Khanzarate
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          I know its asskey because asskey unlocked an ass, see?

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    • Sabata
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      Ee-sik-kai and ass key. I bet I’m double wrong but less wrong than OOP. There not close.

    • @[email protected]
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      517 hours ago

      i usually would hear EE-seh-kai or EE-say-kai, given that its basically I and Sekai(meaning world in japanese) put together. so how you pronounce the latter should depend on how you pronounce the word Sekai

    • @Zachariah
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      118 hours ago

      We don’t. We make you speak American, like god intended.

  • @[email protected]
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    I had lived in Japan and can speak pretty good Japanese. I can say that this is just straight up wrong. LOL where does one even get this info

  • @WhiteOakBayou
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    117 hours ago

    Ahs-see. The hard C following a vowel and preceding a long vowel makes “ck” seem wrong to me.