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Well, where? (feddit.uk)
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@ed1conf@bsd.network on Mastodon: "Where are you going?" with an image of an edited hoarding asking if the rwser is going to haven or Emacs with a phone number to some Christian organisation.
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[–] 32 points 1 year ago* (4 children)

Thanks, I'll check it out

Edit: did I just fall for an si prefix joke?

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  • [–] 38 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    The SI prefix thing stems from a joke anyway. Allow me to trot out the etymology again:

    Once upon a time in the 1980s, there was created a program for reading ELectronic Mail called Elm.

    Someone created a rival mail reader called Pine, which followed both the tree pun as well as the fact it was a recursive acronym: "Pine is not Elm".

    Pine had an editor called the Pine Composer or Pico for short. Pico is both a typographical term as well as an SI unit. They may have been going for both. Too perfect a pun to pass up, perhaps.

    Due to licensing uncertainty, someone else created a from-scratch clone of Pico called Nano, cementing the continuation of puns, but in the SI direction.

    And then apparently someone else has decided to get on the bandwagon with Micro.

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