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by kevin_thibedeau 1y ago

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bsimpson 1y ago
For those missing the reference, NAMBLA is the "man/boy love association" (as in pedophiles).
- masfuerte 1y ago
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- octoberfranklin 1y ago
  Back before SWATting was a thing, signing up people you disliked as members of NAMBLA was all the rage. If you ask me it was funnier, and less risk of anybody actually dying.
rfmc 1y ago
I mean, North American Marlon Brando Look-Alikes are not that bad.
bitwize 1y ago
It's also the name of a mathematical vector derivative operator (∇).
- rdlw 1y ago
  Interesting, I only knew it as the del until now
  - weinzierl 1y ago
    OMG, how did you remember that nabla x nabla = labla(ce)?
    - henearkr 1y ago
      I think you meant Laplace (Laplacian operator).
      - weinzierl 1y ago
        That's the mnemonic I was taught, but granted, it takes some artistic license to make it rhyme.
        henearkr 1y ago
        Ha! lol ^^ Ok, I see!
  - okanat 1y ago
    And I thought only ∂ is called "del".
  - thatfunkymunki 1y ago
    i thought it was the symbol for gradient? edit: ah, the name of the symbol for the gradient operator is nabla
neilv 1y ago
I used to study news, which meant reading a lot of it, so maybe I'm not representative, but I immediately noticed that. Whoever tastefully drew their logo in lowercase might've warned them not do it as all-caps elsewhere, if they were aware of the US brand issue. If I had to refer to this brand name in text, such as in specs, I wouldn't do all-caps like they have. (To US people, who may be familiar with the toxic brand from written news, US journalism style guides tend to put initialisms and acronyms in all-caps, unlike in parts of Europe.) I would capitalize only the first letter.
henearkr 1y ago
To scientific-oriented minds it only refers to the mathematical operator. I personally did not know about, and don't care about, the "horrifying" thing you see in nabla. And I will keep being like that. If we were to start tracking all the things that are "a typo away from a bad thing", not a lot of words would be left.
- benzible 1y ago
  I'm sure you have a list of things that you would not want to be "one typo away" from.
  - henearkr 1y ago
    I don't. One typo away means it stays different.
  - stephen_g 1y ago
    There are too many things to really worry about it too much. It's not really how language works anyway - like would you say "You don't want to call your organisation the Rare Books Association because 'rare' is only one letter away from 'rape'?" - clearly that's ridiculous.
    - RiverCrochet 1y ago
      "Rare Books A**ociation" already has 1 bad word right in it. No typo needed.
numpad0 1y ago
Never heard of the term in question, is the word similar sounding to this by accident or is it tongue-in-cheek inspiration of some sort?
- stephen_g 1y ago
  I've never heard of it either until reading these comments (I'm in Australia). Assuming the NA in that acronym means North America (?) and given that Denx and this new entity is German it's probably safe to assume that they haven't heard of it either.
mcmoor 1y ago
I've seen other comment for the supposed unsavory thing but I've never heard about it, like, at all. Only know it as the mathematical operator. Also being used as card name for a children card game that's a bit infamously censor heavy so I think it's safe enough https://yugipedia.com/wiki/Mathmech_Nabla https://yugipedia.com/wiki/Mathmech_Nabla
gspr 1y ago
Don't help those unsavory people hog a large part of our shared namespace.

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bsimpson 1y ago

For those missing the reference, NAMBLA is the "man/boy love association" (as in pedophiles).

masfuerte 1y ago
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octoberfranklin 1y ago
Back before SWATting was a thing, signing up people you disliked as members of NAMBLA was all the rage. If you ask me it was funnier, and less risk of anybody actually dying.

rfmc 1y ago

I mean, North American Marlon Brando Look-Alikes are not that bad.

bitwize 1y ago

It's also the name of a mathematical vector derivative operator (∇).

rdlw 1y ago
Interesting, I only knew it as the del until now
- weinzierl 1y ago
  OMG, how did you remember that nabla x nabla = labla(ce)?
  - henearkr 1y ago
    I think you meant Laplace (Laplacian operator).
    - weinzierl 1y ago
      That's the mnemonic I was taught, but granted, it takes some artistic license to make it rhyme.
      - henearkr 1y ago
        Ha! lol ^^ Ok, I see!
- okanat 1y ago
  And I thought only ∂ is called "del".
- thatfunkymunki 1y ago
  i thought it was the symbol for gradient? edit: ah, the name of the symbol for the gradient operator is nabla

neilv 1y ago

I used to study news, which meant reading a lot of it, so maybe I'm not representative, but I immediately noticed that. Whoever tastefully drew their logo in lowercase might've warned them not do it as all-caps elsewhere, if they were aware of the US brand issue. If I had to refer to this brand name in text, such as in specs, I wouldn't do all-caps like they have. (To US people, who may be familiar with the toxic brand from written news, US journalism style guides tend to put initialisms and acronyms in all-caps, unlike in parts of Europe.) I would capitalize only the first letter.

henearkr 1y ago

To scientific-oriented minds it only refers to the mathematical operator. I personally did not know about, and don't care about, the "horrifying" thing you see in nabla. And I will keep being like that. If we were to start tracking all the things that are "a typo away from a bad thing", not a lot of words would be left.

benzible 1y ago
I'm sure you have a list of things that you would not want to be "one typo away" from.
- henearkr 1y ago
  I don't. One typo away means it stays different.
- stephen_g 1y ago
  There are too many things to really worry about it too much. It's not really how language works anyway - like would you say "You don't want to call your organisation the Rare Books Association because 'rare' is only one letter away from 'rape'?" - clearly that's ridiculous.
  - RiverCrochet 1y ago
    "Rare Books A**ociation" already has 1 bad word right in it. No typo needed.

numpad0 1y ago

Never heard of the term in question, is the word similar sounding to this by accident or is it tongue-in-cheek inspiration of some sort?

stephen_g 1y ago
I've never heard of it either until reading these comments (I'm in Australia). Assuming the NA in that acronym means North America (?) and given that Denx and this new entity is German it's probably safe to assume that they haven't heard of it either.

mcmoor 1y ago

I've seen other comment for the supposed unsavory thing but I've never heard about it, like, at all. Only know it as the mathematical operator. Also being used as card name for a children card game that's a bit infamously censor heavy so I think it's safe enough https://yugipedia.com/wiki/Mathmech_Nabla https://yugipedia.com/wiki/Mathmech_Nabla

gspr 1y ago

Don't help those unsavory people hog a large part of our shared namespace.