Comment on Scientists suck at naming and abbreviating stuff
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
At least a couple of these are uppercase and some are lowercase, but yeah.
It’s a bit like a fun game: Ask someone in the military to hand you an “M1” and see what they come up with.
Andromxda@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
kuberoot@discuss.tchncs.de 2 weeks ago
For M2, it could also be an M.2 - presumably an SSD, but depending on context could also be the slot itself!
vithigar@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
Celsius is also basically what accompanied by a ° when abbreviated. So much so that “℃” is a single Unicode character.
sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
Wat
kunegis@mander.xyz 2 weeks ago
I think that’s only used in Chinese and Japanese, so that °C occupies as much space as a Chinese/Japanese character.
Tlaloc_Temporal@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
One of my default phone keyboards had them. Either an old bersion of Gboard, or the Samsung keyboard.
NightmareQueenJune@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I am flabbergasted.