The Nemo file manager still managed to fuck it up. ‘Triangle pointing down means small filesizes on top, yeah?’
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Klnsfw@lemmynsfw.com 3 weeks ago
I don’t think I’ve ever been taught a mnemonic with animals
The small number is on the small side of the symbol, the large number is on the large side, it seems pretty intuitive to me, to be honest.
mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Hoimo@ani.social 3 weeks ago
It is weird that Z is considered a bigger letter than A. If triangle pointing down means descending order, it would be Z-A. Ergo, it must mean ascending order and small filesizes are on top just like small letters are on top.
Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
I learned it that way, along with the = sign showing the sides are equal. But by the time I was teaching, we used Pac-Man, drawing the rest of him around the hungry mouth. I still added “another way to look at it is,” and described the spaces:
Big>little same=same little<Big
Because it doesn’t matter how your mind makes the connection, as long as it works for you.