Comment by jasonjayr
1 day ago
The folks at adafruit probably do know, but it does make sense if you expand the words: "Control, Alter, and Delete"
1 day ago
The folks at adafruit probably do know, but it does make sense if you expand the words: "Control, Alter, and Delete"
That's more charitable. Alt is still short for Alternate though, not Alter.
I thought "Alt" in the title is meant in the sense of "stop", as in "halt", but on second thoughts maybe that only works in French (where h is always silent)?
It's clearly meant to be part of the Ctrl-Alt-Del key sequence that interrupts Windows computers to bring up the task manager.
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I mean, technically it’s short for alter on the way to being short for alternate
That's bullshit (IMO) and the post author (Phillip Torrone - I believe that's one of the owners of Adafruit) is obviously ignorant in this regard.
That said, what he's actually talking about in the post makes a lot of sense. That is the important part.