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Scripts I wrote that I use all the time

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768 points speckx | 1 comments | 22 Oct 25 14:53 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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wiether ◴[22 Oct 25 17:56 UTC] No.45672776[source]▶
It's been a while since I haven't read something as useful!

There also some very niche stuff that I won't use but found funny

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giraffe_lady ◴[22 Oct 25 17:57 UTC] No.45672794[source]▶
The nato phonetic alphabet one cracked me up. My dude you don't need that, call center employees don't know it, just say S as in Sugar like ur grandma used to.
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ericyd ◴[22 Oct 25 18:02 UTC] No.45672863[source]▶
The nato phonetic alphabet is still useful even if the other party doesn't know it, I've used it a bunch of times on the phone to spell out my 10- letter last name. Saves quite a lot of time and energy for me vs saying "letter as in word" for each letter.
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1. vunderba ◴[22 Oct 25 20:12 UTC] No.45674555{3}[source]▶
Exactly. The listening party doesn't need to have knowledge of the NATO alphabet to still benefit from it since they are just regular English words.

I once had someone sound out a serial number over a spotty phone connection years ago and they said "N as in NAIL". You know what sounds a lot like NAIL? MAIL.

And that is why we don't just arbitrarily make up phonetic alphabets.