Comment on Why don’t wireless connections (WiFi, Bluetooth, etc.) use anything between 2.4Ghz and 5Ghz?

• scheep@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  shouldn’t the arrow be pointing down?

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  • SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    To be fair I was really lazy and just grabbed the first one I saw with “not” inserted into it.

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  • JohnnyCanuck@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Growing up I always learned (I think) the “insert missing text” symbol was shaped like the one in the pic, like a caret symbol.

    The odd thing is I also remember the caret and inserted word being at the top like in OP’s image, but style guides I can find now show the caret at the bottom and the inserted text at the top.

    www.csuchico.edu/…/copy-editing-marks.shtml#%3A~%….

    …byui.edu/…/chapter_16_deciphering_elements_of_ha… above (search for caret)

    grammarist.com/…/proofreading-editing-marks-symbo…

    Wikipedia seems to indicate using a downward facing caret, or a caret with an extra upward arm en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caret_(proofreading)

    TIL!

    All that to say the formatting of OP’s pic, no matter the direction of the arrow/caret, makes it hard to read. A little “don’t dead open inside” or something.

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