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Re:Scientists rename human genes to stop MS Excel from misre... by stjohnswarts on Thursday August 06, 2020 @04:34PM (#24075174)
what human can't parse that? Sure it might take a half a second longer but it's hardly confusing.
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Re:Scientists rename human genes to stop MS Excel from misre... by gmfawcett on Thursday August 06, 2020 @05:32PM (#24075684)
For those of us whose professional lives sometimes require staring at directory listings full of filenames like "output-200003021342"... for the love of God, please just put the dashes in.

I have an infinite number of dashes, I'll send you a lifetime supply!

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