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and some of us say things like 'thats idiotic because thats 7000 years away'

these are two different kinds of discourse, and this website is only for one of them

It’s a pointless affectation that distracts from your technical content.

The evidence for your behavior being distracting/provocative is right here in this thread.

what distracts from my technical content is vacuous, aggressive replies to it by people who ask me to take responsibility for their behavior. no, thank you

to you too i ask: which of these two kinds of discourse are you engaging in right now?

if you're capable of the other one, i suggest you demonstrate that

your comment purports to be concerned with the objective qualities of mine: 'pointless', 'distracting', 'provocative'. but actually all of these terms are attempts to recast your subjective preferences as objective realities; all you're really writing about is how you feel when you read my comments. the implicit premise here is that other people ought to be writing their comments in order to satisfy your preferences

why? what makes you so admirable? what reason does anyone in the world have to value your opinion or consider your preferences important? if you want comments written to satisfy your preferences, write them yourself

as far as i can tell, like 38, gruturo, and spencerflem, you're just a person who harasses strangers on internet fora if you think they talk funny, then blames your own behavior on them

you want to know what i feel?

because it sure isn't admiration and eagerness to satisfy you

it's contempt

Why not 001982?

When are leading zeros in front of numbers particularly useful? Even in fixed column formats they're almost always left blank.

He doesn’t give sentient life more than until AD 99999 in this universe.

i fully support your choice to henceforth use two leading zeroes on your years or otherwise format your comments however you please

Dude, they've got a point, your style is annoying and not even right in a "technically correct" sorta way. You don't write things that happened 5 AD as 00005 AD.

which of these two kinds of discourse are you engaging in right now

if you're capable of the other one, i suggest you demonstrate that

dude

Personally, I can take the 0abcd style of years without going crazy, but it definitely derails my reading flow a bit. I would compare it to writing personal names without capitals, like donald trump.

But I also know that it is kragen commenting without looking at the header :)

I suppose everyone has their own quirks.

:)

Why not 3 or even 10 leading zeroes? Why so pessimistic?

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