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Fun idea. Perhaps could stretch a little like we did in calculators and add 5 for S, or even 7 for T, but that would likely be a bit less readable.

ghasemi 4y ago
I added a comment for 5 vs S. 7/T looks like it's a bit too much :D
bawolff 4y ago
You could just do full 1337 speek.
- mod 4y ago
  Little town I frequently drive through has a population of 1337. I always have a little giggle.
  - hoyd 4y ago
    what town and country?
    - mod 4y ago
      I like my pseudo-anonymity here. It's in the US. Here's the census data to discover many occurrences of "1337" https://www.census.gov/data/tables/time-series/demo/popest/2020s-total-cities-and-towns.html#tables https://www.census.gov/data/tables/time-series/demo/popest/2... FWIW the town I'm talking about has a different population listed there, a little bit short. The road sign still says 1337, though, as of Thursday.
- silisili 4y ago
  come to think of it, doing a separate list of toLower l -> 1 isn't a bad idea either...
- genewitch 4y ago
  pager code, probably better. "143" = I love you; but 177427*711773 = what time. I don't miss those days. I never had a pager, and i managed to convince all my friends that they shouldn't, either, by pager bombing them. Pagers are still in use, and they're plaintext over the air so if you live near a place that uses pagers (hospitals still use them, for instance), you can get all the messages in real time. It's the frequency. It's in VHF (iirc) so it goes places microwaves cannot; it's also low bandwidth, so the small spectrum carved out for it is usually enough for hundreds of pagers in the area. And since there's no real place to mention this elsewhere, there's a HTML color bot on fediverse (botsin.space) that periodically posts two colors, that work as compliments as foreground and background, and vice versa. I haven't seen it in a while, but our little instance has gotten popular so the feed rate is up near a few hundred posts an hour to sift through.

ghasemi 4y ago

I added a comment for 5 vs S. 7/T looks like it's a bit too much :D

bawolff 4y ago

You could just do full 1337 speek.

mod 4y ago
Little town I frequently drive through has a population of 1337. I always have a little giggle.
- hoyd 4y ago
  what town and country?
  - mod 4y ago
    I like my pseudo-anonymity here. It's in the US. Here's the census data to discover many occurrences of "1337" https://www.census.gov/data/tables/time-series/demo/popest/2020s-total-cities-and-towns.html#tables https://www.census.gov/data/tables/time-series/demo/popest/2... FWIW the town I'm talking about has a different population listed there, a little bit short. The road sign still says 1337, though, as of Thursday.
silisili 4y ago
come to think of it, doing a separate list of toLower l -> 1 isn't a bad idea either...
genewitch 4y ago
pager code, probably better. "143" = I love you; but 177427*711773 = what time. I don't miss those days. I never had a pager, and i managed to convince all my friends that they shouldn't, either, by pager bombing them. Pagers are still in use, and they're plaintext over the air so if you live near a place that uses pagers (hospitals still use them, for instance), you can get all the messages in real time. It's the frequency. It's in VHF (iirc) so it goes places microwaves cannot; it's also low bandwidth, so the small spectrum carved out for it is usually enough for hundreds of pagers in the area. And since there's no real place to mention this elsewhere, there's a HTML color bot on fediverse (botsin.space) that periodically posts two colors, that work as compliments as foreground and background, and vice versa. I haven't seen it in a while, but our little instance has gotten popular so the feed rate is up near a few hundred posts an hour to sift through.