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Started by kphoger, May 19, 2025, 02:14:34 PM

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kphoger

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Male pronouns, please.

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WillWeaverRVA

Quote from: Scott5114 on July 31, 2025, 02:39:56 PM
Quote from: kphoger on July 31, 2025, 01:45:18 PMIs that really truncation.........???

Interestingly, I can't find an attestation that says that truncation must be from one of the ends. Both of the dictionaries I consulted emphasize that it's a shortening by removing a portion. In Perl, the String::Truncate module takes a given string and shortens it to a given length, and you can tell it to delete from the beginning, middle, or end. Python uses truncate to shorten a file specifically and what gets truncated seems to depend on the particulars of a file pointer in such a way that I don't know that's it's a relevant example.

I always figured truncation was shortening by removing any portion, regardless of where. In mathematics it does specifically refer to shortening by removing digits to the right of a decimal point, but we're not doing mathematical truncation here.
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kphoger

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He Is Already Here! Let's Go, Flamingo!
Dost thou understand the graveness of the circumstances?
Deut 23:13
Male pronouns, please.

Quote from: PKDIf you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use them.

freebrickproductions

Quote from: kphoger on July 31, 2025, 06:20:13 PMNational Boards ► General Highway Talk ► Cons
A discussion of conventions that people have been to (road-related or otherwise, including fandom ones). :-P
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PNWRoadgeek

Quote from: freebrickproductions on July 31, 2025, 08:09:14 PM
Quote from: kphoger on July 31, 2025, 06:20:13 PMNational Boards ► General Highway Talk ► Cons
A discussion of conventions that people have been to (road-related or otherwise, including fandom ones). :-P
The first time I've ever seen one of these, I feel like 2000 years later these are gonna be common place on forum sites. Even dumb ones.
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Quote from: PNWRoadgeek on July 31, 2025, 04:22:30 PMThings in middle - Hmm... In the middle of where exactly?
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kphoger

Sorry if any of these have already been done...

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He Is Already Here! Let's Go, Flamingo!
Dost thou understand the graveness of the circumstances?
Deut 23:13
Male pronouns, please.

Quote from: PKDIf you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use them.

kphoger

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He Is Already Here! Let's Go, Flamingo!
Dost thou understand the graveness of the circumstances?
Deut 23:13
Male pronouns, please.

Quote from: PKDIf you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use them.

freebrickproductions

It's all fun & games until someone summons Cthulhu and brings about the end of the world.

I also collect traffic lights, road signs, fans, and railroad crossing equipment.

Art in avatar by Moncatto (18+)!

(They/Them)



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