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   Alex Hall (alexhall@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 05-Dec-2023 23:31:13 JST Alex Hall

   One advantage of braille is being able to quickly count how many digits are in huge numbers. I know my display has 32 cells. Examining this number, I have one empty cell on the right, and the number sign. I instantly know there are 30 digits. Try that on a monitor! Yes, this rarely comes up, and yes, I'd still rather be able to see a real monitor. But it's one tiny thing I'm faster at than sighted people. Let me have it.

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     GreenSkyOverMe (Monika) (greenskyoverme@ohai.social)'s status on Tuesday, 05-Dec-2023 23:32:20 JST GreenSkyOverMe (Monika)

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     @alexhall I often have to make sure that certain IDs have exactly 10 digits, with leading zeroes, so for me it does come up quite a lot, and it's really surprisingly difficult by sight