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Inventor of NTP protocol that keeps time on billions of devices dies at age 85 (arstechnica.com)
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[–] RedAggroBest@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

XXIst

I've been seeing this on Lemmy lately, why are people going to roman numerals? Do we hate Arabic now? It's not saving keystrokes unless I'm crazy?

[–] BudgieMania@kbin.social 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

in certain parts of the world they really ingrained in us that roman numerals are the proper way to do it and it's very hard to shake off, apologies

[–] SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

Romanes eunt domus!

:P