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[–] [email protected] 22 points 4 months ago (5 children)

Commas, like tabs, are free and convenient.

Firefox user loses 7,470 opened tabs, saved over two years, after they can’t restore browsing session

[–] [email protected] -5 points 4 months ago (4 children)

How does someone have half a tab open?

[–] Coreidan 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] -4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

7,470 is just under 7½ in a lot of languages, the , is used the same way as a . in English number writing so 7,470 = 7.470 in English.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

And this was written in English, so using English conventions.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 4 months ago

It was a joke, ever heard of those?

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