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Re:Why Discord is switching from Go to Rust (2020) by meepmorp on Monday February 22, 2021 @01:48PM (#26228605)
>C# requires a ringtone be installed.

This confused the hell out of me until I realized it's supposed to be runtime.

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Re:Why Discord is switching from Go to Rust (2020) by tantalic on Monday February 22, 2021 @02:17PM (#26229094)
On the other hand, would you be surprised to learn the .NET runtime includes a ringtone?
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Re:Why Discord is switching from Go to Rust (2020) by meepmorp on Monday February 22, 2021 @02:45PM (#26229537)
That's probably why it confused me so much; I couldn't rule out that interpretation reliably enough to interpret it as a typo.
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Re:Why Discord is switching from Go to Rust (2020) by philwelch on Monday February 22, 2021 @01:53PM (#26228708)
Thanks. I assumed it was an allusion to the .Net runtime having a bunch of unnecessary crap built into it, including a ringtone for some arcane reason.
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Re:Why Discord is switching from Go to Rust (2020) by thaumasiotes on Monday February 22, 2021 @02:07PM (#26228947)
Autocorrect: turning simple, obvious mistakes into opaque, irrecoverable mistakes.

It's never been clear to me why someone would want this.

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