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What is an interesting fact that you recently discovered? (pawb.social)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

then the Gemini project, both the OS one and the NASA one.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago (2 children)

And the star system and sign. Naming projects after very common words (or even worse, just letters or numbers) is really stupid as it makes searching for them or discussing them difficult and context sensitive and prone to fail.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

To be fair I thought from the start that the world wide web was a pretty stupid name but it did okay.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Rfc 1178 is leaking.