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[-] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 8 points 6 days ago

This thread is a great example of why they don’t like to let (most) software developers talk to the customers.

[-] HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml 5 points 6 days ago

Easy solution: Switch to table UUIDs.

[-] hakunawazo@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Even if the table is correct the instruction needs to be more precise. Is it table header or table body and in which table column?

[-] FatTony@lemm.ee 2 points 6 days ago

No, NO! She said the FIRST table. Not table ONE. Why are women like this???? /s

[-] lefixxx@lemmy.world 115 points 1 week ago

She is right, using 0 index for physical stuff is stupid.

[-] ulterno@lemmy.kde.social 0 points 6 days ago

Guy is wrong. Went to 0th table. She asked for 1st table.

[-] jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de 41 points 1 week ago

Your rulers start at 1? That sounds annoying.

[-] Godnroc@lemmy.world 19 points 1 week ago

I've seen a lot of rulers that actually don't have a mark at 0 and instead go right to the edge as 0. Typically they are worn down, being made of wood, so the accuracy of the first inch is dubious. To ensure the distance is correct, sliding the ruler down one unit is a good idea. So, my ruler starts at 0 but my measurements start at 1.

[-] jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de 21 points 1 week ago

That's why decent rulers have a 0 and a margin:

plastic ruler starting at 0 cm

[-] xthexder@l.sw0.com 21 points 1 week ago

It really depends on what you're measuring. Good luck measuring the distance from a corner if you can't get 0 to touch the end.

Tape measures are almost always designed with this in mind, so you can hook the end over an edge, or butt it up against something and the measurement will be accurate both ways, since the metal end can slide in or out by just the right amount.

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[-] Barbarian@sh.itjust.works 23 points 1 week ago
[-] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 27 points 1 week ago

Not on this side of the pond. We typically don't have a ground floor, that's just the first floor.

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[-] drunkpostdisaster@lemmy.world 67 points 1 week ago

And then he texts back 'where are you?' And then she texts back 'the first table' and he replies 'umm I'm here too. But I don't see you' confused she asks him ' table 0p?' And then '01*?' He says 'no, 00.' Releaved she says 'lol I am at table 01' he chuckles 'I am at 00, I'll go find you'

Later they get married and have kids. But relationship collapses and it ruins both of them and they cannot find the heart to love anyone again. Their children grow up broken and struggle through life. Some get arrested end up in prison, all of them repeatedly fall into a series of toxic relationships for the rest of their lives.

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[-] pelya@lemmy.world 60 points 1 week ago

In the UK it's called a ground table.

[-] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 20 points 1 week ago

So it was a spelling mistake? They're actually The Knights of The Ground Table!

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[-] aluminium@lemmy.world 56 points 1 week ago

She was a lua girl, he was every other programming language guy. It was not ment to happen.

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[-] netvor@lemmy.world 50 points 1 week ago

Don't wanna state the obvious, but it looks like they still ended up staring at each other for the rest of the evening.

They have shown that they still love each other, so hope they can work with their one irreconcilable difference.

[-] Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 37 points 1 week ago

I love the idea that they're at two adjacent tables, each one staring at the other wondering why they hate them.

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[-] lustyargonian@lemm.ee 47 points 1 week ago

If you love me meet me at first floor

Americans 😢 British 🤷‍♂️

[-] DarkDarkHouse@lemmy.sdf.org 45 points 1 week ago

It’s for the best

[-] yonder@sh.itjust.works 41 points 1 week ago

That is why my restaurant will number tables by UUID.

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[-] iAvicenna@lemmy.world 33 points 1 week ago

they were never meant to be together, they would confuse the hell out of each other. Imagine they have two kids and she says pick kid[1] from the school, then what?

[-] BluesF@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago

One kid's getting garbage collected either way

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[-] yesman@lemmy.world 29 points 1 week ago

The real punch line is that in a cafe run by programmers, esoteric rules are in full force, but tables 0 and 1 are no where near each other.

[-] PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca 27 points 1 week ago

🙅 zeroth, first, second, third
👉 Zerost, onest, twost, threest

[-] xmunk@sh.itjust.works 2 points 6 days ago

I'm the twost two that's ever twoed.

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[-] AnnaFrankfurter@lemmy.ml 26 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Hey, if she thinks 1 is 1st index then you ~~dogged~~ dodged a bullet and deserve better.

Happy now all you English majors.

[-] MadBob@feddit.nl 33 points 1 week ago

you dogged a bullet

😳

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[-] sasquash@sopuli.xyz 25 points 1 week ago

maybe she's a lua developer

[-] sgibson5150@slrpnk.net 17 points 1 week ago

Wouldn't it be nice if documentation used the words index and offset consistently?

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