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Yes, please change it to 3MM, which also abbreviates to "3 million". My first impression was strongly that 3M had some lock system that was now compromised, no
by toss1 3y ago
Yes, please change it to 3MM, which also abbreviates to "3 million". My first impression was strongly that 3M had some lock system that was now compromised, not that it was referring to 3 million locks in the wild.
Also perhaps consider expanding the headline character limit above 80, or maybe not count numbers in the total.
- dylan604 3y agoit would take all of about 3 seconds to realize why an unlimited character count would break the site's layout and know that it will never happen. i do agree that the "don't editorialize" and strict char count are very contradictory, but suggesting that the site changes because of it is also naive at best.
- stavros 3y agoIt took about 1 second to realize that "80 characters" and "unlimited" aren't the only two options.
- toss1 3y agoExactly; thank you. I was definitely NOT thinking of unlimited. I was thinking of 80chars, but excluding numerals (123, etc) and number text ("thousand", "million" etc.) and maybe a few other items excluded from the count, with a maximum of 100, or whatever number actually will not break the layout. I've found it frustrating trying to fit in 80chars, and e.g., finding that ampersand gets expanded so it actually counts more than "and", so it is not a single-rule 80 chars; perhaps a few more sophisticated rules might help. Just a suggestion.
- aqfamnzc 3y agoNot that it really matters, but I found it interesting thinking of ways this could be broken... million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million
- toss1 3y agoyou missed the >>"with a maximum of 100,"
- brianleb 3y agoActually, I believe what you want is 3mm, which I believe they use in accounting. Lowercase m in this instance would stand for milli-, as in thousand. So 3mm would be 3 thousand thousand. 3M is technically correct, though confusing in this specific case. Capital M would indicate Mega, as in the progression from kilobit to megabit to gigabit.
- neilv 3y ago3mm hotel keycard form factor.
- lowbloodsugar 3y ago3MM is three million, for US accountants and thus engineers writing docs for VPs. 3mm is three millimeters.
- Yizahi 3y agoGamers just write it as 3kk. (PS: never seen MM used as a "million" even in my two decades on the internet)
- kukkamario 3y agoEh... Haven't seen anyone using 3kk to abbreviate 3M. 3M is common and B for billion. Those are also used in many games to shorten currencies.
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- exe34 3y agoMaybe 3M should rename themselves to something less confusing.
- toss1 3y agoThey were originally "Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Co." Seems the 3M branding has worked quite well...
- landosaari 3y ago"In business news, 3M and M&M have merged to form, get this, Ultradyne Systems." Simpsons S14E12 [0] [0] https://www.springfieldspringfield.co.uk/view_episode_scripts.php?tv-show=the-simpsons&episode=s14e12 https://www.springfieldspringfield.co.uk/view_episode_script...
- mikewarot 3y ago3 millimeters is a really small lock.
- hulitu 3y agomm is milimeters. MM does not exist.
- samstave 3y agoMM = 1,000 * 1,000 == 1,000,000 <- thats where MM comes from Roman numerals. jeasus christ: https://corporatefinanceinstitute.com/resources/fixed-income/mm-millions/ https://corporatefinanceinstitute.com/resources/fixed-income... Seems like you engineers have been behind code and not having to defend your project budgets to CFOs and stakeholders often.
- devindotcom 3y agoMM is 2,000 in Roman numeral notation, not a million.
- wongarsu 3y agoYeah, but finance people (way after the roman times) adopted M as a suffix for thousands, and once you treat it as a suffix or prefix it made sense (to them) to use MM for million. You sometimes see the same done in engineering-adjacent contexts with SI prefixes, like using kk for million.
- rescbr 3y agoThe finance people that I know uses K for thousands and MM for million.
- yodon 3y agoTech and science use K for thousand and M for million. Using K and MM in finance reduces the odds of an incorrect interpretation of a single M.
- Moru 3y agoSweden faint memory of using ' and " for accounting. 1' is 1 000, 1" is 1 000 000. Or something like that, didn't spend much time on it.
- araes 3y agoHow about "Hackers Found a Way to Open Any of 3 Million Hotel Keycard Locks in Seconds" its only 75 characters. Nobody has to guess about abbreviations or whether it's really Latin or mm.
- swader999 3y agoMany 3M adhesives would hold the hotel doors closed.
- mindslight 3y agoOr just drop all the clickbait crap from the headline - "Hackers", "any", "3 million" and "in seconds" are all just fluff meant to create an emotional response. Change the subject to where the responsibility lies, the locks themselves or the lock manufacturer, and add "major brand" or "widely deployed" if it's necessary to separately indicate notoriety.