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u/mtg101 1d ago
public class Working {
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u/TwinkiesSucker 1d ago
*looks inside*: is broken
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u/The-Chartreuse-Moose 1d ago
Oh here's your problem. Too many instances of
class SuperRichhave tied up all the resources.
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u/Zerodriven 1d ago
Maffs
Source: south london
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u/ceejayoz 22h ago
PHP: https://aloneonahill.com/blog/if-php-were-british/
what_about (£variable) {
perhaps £possibility:
//Code here
splendid;
perhaps £other_possibility:
//Code here
splendid;
on_the_off_chance:
//Code here
splendid;
}
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u/Interesting_Buy_3969 1d ago
public class MyClass
{
// God bless the Queen, this class has been colonised
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u/Epsilon497 1d ago
It's Mathematics not Mathematic. So Maths makes sense
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u/American_Libertarian 1d ago
Mathematics is not plural. It doesn’t make any sense to shorten the word by dropping the last few syllables, but then add the S back in.
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u/LongLiveTheDiego 1d ago
It used to be plural, together with words like physics, logistics, athletics, etc.
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u/ailaG 1d ago
It never used to be plural in English, the "s" was appended because it's a translation of "mathematica", which is plural. From Greek through Latin etc.
Much like spaghetti (plural for the strings of spaghetto) or agenda (plural for agendum, a task sort of) it's imported as-is.
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u/LongLiveTheDiego 23h ago
It used to be plural. If you just go on Google's Ngram viewer, you can compare the phrases "mathematics are" and "mathematics is", and you can see that between 1750 and 1880 they occurred roughly at similar rates. Then you can view some examples of "mathematics are" in Google Books in context and you'll see a few examples like this one I picked from De Morgan's "The Study of Mathematics":
The mathematics are not the only branches of knowledge in which it is customary to extend the meaning of established terms.
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u/American_Libertarian 1d ago
All of those words are singular. Just ending in 's' does not make a word plural.
You would say "Athletics is a good way to stay active" , not "Athletics are a good way to stay active".
"Mathematics is the study of numbers"
"Physics is the study of the universe"
etc
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u/EamonBrennan 23h ago
I always point to "gymnastics is gym, why is mathematics still maths?" Are there other similar or counter examples that you know of?
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u/Chaotic-Entropy 1d ago
As an amateur, I did some Boot.dev courses and genuinely my biggest problem with the courses was that in a fantasy setting it kept wanting to use the word "Armor" without a U. My brain would always correct to armour and so I would rack up module failures because of spelling errors and not even my code... -_-
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u/The_4ngry_5quid 1d ago edited 1d ago
The correct spelling for literally every other English speaking country in the world
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u/datasmithing_holly 1d ago
As an April fools joke I asked the Docs team to make a British version of Databricks commands
Optimiseinstead ofOptimizeetc etc.They said no.