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[-] lugal@sopuli.xyz 51 points 8 hours ago

Or to quote from a book I own:

This page is accidentally left blank

[-] renegadespork@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 3 hours ago

I always thought that is funny, but I think they do that to ensure blank pages aren’t skipped by the printer.

[-] Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

Just once I want one of those to say what it really means.

Please don't return this book, it hurts our numbers. We just had an extra page ¯\(ツ)

[-] OpenStars@piefed.social 3 points 8 hours ago

Maybe to avoid all the page numbering after that being shifted?

[-] MyNameIsRichard@lemmy.ml 8 points 8 hours ago

Maybe a play on "This page intentionally left blank" from the IBM manuals

[-] lud@lemm.ee 6 points 5 hours ago

This is in no way unique to IBM manuals.

The phrase is present in loads of books and in some cases has been for quite a few years.

https://meh.com/forum/topics/nothing-is-lacking-the-long-history-of-intentionally-blank-pages

https://www.google.com/search?q=%22this+page+intentionally+left+blank&udm=36

[-] lugal@sopuli.xyz 4 points 8 hours ago

That would make sense. It's a playful book with many jokes in it

[-] lugal@sopuli.xyz 1 points 8 hours ago

It's the very first page and the second one is page 2

[-] OpenStars@piefed.social 1 points 8 hours ago

So then it would affect literally all the pages in the book, if it were removed!?!:-P

[-] lugal@sopuli.xyz 2 points 8 hours ago

Well, it's not uncommon to leave the first page blank or with some generic stuff. Someone else already pointed out that it might be an inside joke

[-] elvith@feddit.org 8 points 6 hours ago

And that's why it's called "production environment" I guess

[-] propter_hog@hexbear.net 8 points 9 hours ago

So this is why everyone's getting e. coli.

[-] JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee 12 points 9 hours ago
[-] akkajdh999@programming.dev 3 points 7 hours ago

cannot create comment: post not found

[-] Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 9 hours ago

Hmmm. I was having issues with images on my lemmy host taking forever to propagate so I used postimages for this one. The gremlin is following me.

I'll attempt to fix.

[-] VerPoilu@sopuli.xyz 4 points 8 hours ago
[-] lugal@sopuli.xyz 2 points 8 hours ago

Took me until I saw OP's answer to realize it wasn't a joke

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