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Why does it need to conquer the world? I just want to deal with sane, performant software.
by shrimp_emoji 2y ago
Why 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.