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I want to be that person that has so much time on their hand they can afford to waste it on pointless things like this.

• shadowgovt 4y ago
  There's a career path to get there. It involves becoming someone who cares deeply about the ways and means of digitizing data stored in analog media. Drill down deep enough, and you'll find yourself in a fascinating world of coding an error. There are things like the "ghost characters," which are codepoints in Japanese that map to characters that were basically transcription errors when the team was putting together a full set of Kanji. Some characters with an extra horizontal line snuck into the set; they were likely caused by a transcription error because the character got split onto two pieces of paper by lines of text being copy-pasted into a records book, and the shadow cast by the thin extra layer of paper was misinterpreted as another stroke. https://www.dampfkraft.com/ghost-characters.html https://www.dampfkraft.com/ghost-characters.html