| 00:00 | <shu> | we should not change the number formatting at all from what it is |
| 00:02 | <Michael Ficarra> | pretty much all standards bodies agree though: General Conference on Weights and Measures, NIST, ISO 8601, ISO 80000-1, ... |
| 00:03 | <Michael Ficarra> | and of course standards daddy Ecma |
| 00:07 | <shu> | now that i've looked over it, there aren't that many large numbers |
| 00:08 | <bakkot> | I am categorically opposed to changing the grouping punctuator |
| 00:08 | <shu> | some of them would be clearer to be expressed directly as their formulas (e.g. 2^53, instead of writing it out) |
| 00:08 | <shu> | so i'd be open to removing some of them |
| 00:08 | <shu> | but otherwise not open to changing , to space |
| 00:09 | <shu> | i will change my mind when the whole of software engineering isn't so heavily american anglo-centric |
| 00:10 | <Michael Ficarra> | okay well hopefully they just never complain about it |
| 00:10 | <bakkot> | they haven't so far |
| 00:11 | <bakkot> | incidentally the HTML spec also uses american-style numbers (though in some cases they do not have a grouping separator) |
| 00:11 | <Michael Ficarra> | it's not just spaces btw, it's thin spaces lmao |
| 00:11 | <Michael Ficarra> |
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| 00:15 | <bakkot> | thin spaces more tolerable than full-width tbf |
| 00:15 | <shu> | 1░000░000░I░N░B░I░O |
| 00:24 | <Michael Ficarra> | god you are too online shu |
| 00:28 | <Rob Palmer> | Michael, you introduced me to "drip" so I suspect you of excessive onlineness too. |
| 00:28 | <Michael Ficarra> | I would never be online, sir |
| 00:54 | <Michael Ficarra> | also Ecma thinks sections shouldn't be nested more than 3 levels lol |
| 01:47 | <bakkot> | why does ecma hate organization |
| 02:44 | <Michael Ficarra> | I just noticed that the computed page numbers in the ToC are incorrect... 🤦♂️ |
| 02:44 | <Michael Ficarra> | I'm getting really tired of Paged.js |
| 05:37 | <ljharb> | i think if we decide that usage stats of any number formats should be disqualified from any countries that gained their format by being conquered, the choice is obvious |