When translating to Finnish it's confusing sometimes:
Billion = miljardi = 1 000 000 000
Trillion = biljoona = 1 000 000 000 000
Quintillion = triljoona = 1 000 000 000 000 000 000
You can tell how bad a news site is when they translate billion to biljoona and thus making the amount 1000 times higher.

[–] ryedaft@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 day ago (2 children)

You probably want double new lines in your posts. Or two spaces at the end of your paragraphs but that's usually a bit annoying to do.

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Or just \ at the end, like so

Texty text text \
Text

Becomes
Like this

[–] ryedaft@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

So you escape the newline and you get a newline? That's some black magic voodoo. But hey if it works. Much simpler to handle than double space since you can see them and your phone doesn't try to make them into period space instead of space space.

Newlines with double space (or space backslash apparently) also let's you have newlines in a quote block without exiting the block. I see a lot of people struggle with that on Lemmy. E.g.

> A quote with multiple lines
Will eat the the newline 

Or exit if you don't handle the newline

will render as:

A quote with multiple lines Will eat the the newline

Or exit if you don't handle the newline

So you want to do

> A quote with multiple lines \
Will eat the the newline \
Or exit if you don't handle the newline

A quote with multiple lines
Will eat the the newline
Or exit if you don't handle the newline

Or add space space at the end instead of space backslash.

[–] lagoon8622@sh.itjust.works 2 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

The inventors of Markdown thought they would do something devastatingly clever and eat newlines if the next line has content. That way, if you're writing Markdown in the Stone Age and your editor doesn't support soft-wrap (it's a stone tablet), you can do your own soft-wrap and Markdown will "helpfully" eat all the newlines (unless there are two or more).

Of course this has done nothing to help and instead caused chaos and confusion for anyone non-technical. Very clever

[–] ryedaft@sh.itjust.works 3 points 18 hours ago

It would be more useful if there were comments in markdown. Like, it's helpful when organising your writing and thoughts in LaTeX that you can write one line per sentence, double newline for end of paragraph. It becomes immediately clear when a sentence is too long and comments for collaborators (or yourself) are easier to handle than in something like Word or Google Docs. It's also simpler to move sentences around which is important for good writing.

[–] TeNppa@sopuli.xyz 3 points 18 hours ago

Thanks! Forgot to do that. Now edited.

[–] guy@piefed.social 2 points 1 day ago

The long system with milliard and billiard increases with every potens which makes sense. The short system on the other hand 🤷

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 20 hours ago

biljoona

Heh that's a funny word.