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> As a hack for existing CPUs, it's just about tolerable â as long as it > can die entirely by the next generation. > Certainly it's a nasty hack, but hey â th
by ratinacage 9y ago
> As a hack for existing CPUs, it's just about tolerable â as long as it
> can die entirely by the next generation.
> Certainly it's a nasty hack, but hey â the world was on fire and in the
> end we didn't have to just turn the datacentres off and go back to goat
> farming, so it's not all bad.
Off-topic, but what is with the "â" in these sentences? Is that just some weird encoding error, or does it actually have meaning?
- DerekL 9y agoProbably an encoding error. An m-dash is E2 80 94 in UTF-8. (An n-dash is E2 80 93.) I suspect that the original UTF-8 is misinterpreted as ISO 8859-1 or a similar encoding, where 0xE2 is “â”, and the other two are unassigned or control characters.
- hinkley 9y agoSounds about right. As a rule of thumb if you see a’s with accents you’re loooking at a UTF-8 encoding problem.