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> Nobody’s surname needs 128+ bytes. This attitude ensures that the US software industry will never conquer the world.
by cjs_ac 2y ago
> Nobody’s surname needs 128+ bytes.
This attitude ensures that the US software industry will never conquer the world.
- sgt 2y agoThe US software industry has already conquered the world, and continues to do so. It doesn't mean that it'll always be this way, but if you wanted to associate software with a single country, then the US would be your answer.
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- shrimp_emoji 2y agoWhy does it need to conquer the world? I just want to deal with sane, performant software.
- estebank 2y agoAnd people in other locales want to be able to use their own name without software mangling it.
- gav 2y agoAt some point there is a physical limitation, there's no passport in the world that accepts a 666-character name. The US only gives you 21 characters on the DS-11 for a surname.
- Narishma 2y agoYou're assuming one character is stored as one byte, which is only the case for English.
- shrimp_emoji 2y agoThat sounds like a them problem. ;D I once heard that "decision" comes from a Latin root word meaning "to cut off (the other options; to pay opportunity cost)". I will decide to optimize for my use case.
- bregma 2y agoI just want to deal with sane, performant people. We'll just both need to learn to live with disappointment.