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I encourage you to try to move past it, you’re missing out! Of all the arbitrary cultural norms, “computers should only use icons, not emojis” is the most arbit
by bbor 2y ago
I encourage you to try to move past it, you’re missing out! Of all the arbitrary cultural norms, “computers should only use icons, not emojis” is the most arbitrary. No offense ofc, and I believe you that the psychological effect is real — I’m just saying it’s probably an arbitrary one that would go away pretty quickly.
Personally, “output a concise, hierarchical markdown document with heavy usage of emojis” is a must-have LLM pre-prompt. Helps with scanning the results quickly, and I have a hunch it helps it keep its reasoning straight for complex tasks.
- sgarland 2y agoHard pass. I want my terminal to present me with text, and only text. That way, as I cry bitter tears of defeat, the textual output will remain, stolidly presenting its harsh reality to me. Emoji would falsely present an aura of hope and congeniality where there is only pain; the cruel reminder that I have once again failed to live up to its inflexible and demanding expectations. …seriously though, I have absolutely no desire for emoji in the terminal.
- Sleaker 2y agoEmoji are text though?
- sgarland 2y agoWhen (Western) people say text, they generally mean ASCII. If your language requires glyphs, that is of course reasonable to also be called text. I’ll grant emoticons (e.g. :-D) as being textual, because they are composed of the building blocks of ASCII. An emoji, though consisting of Unicode code point[s], cannot say the same, unless you’re arguing that they’re all bits, which is reductionist.
- ehnto 2y agoEmoticons was a western word for emoji I think, which originated in Japan. Emo(emotion) Ji (glyph/character). The distinction between one being text and one being pictures isn't a widely used one I don't think, please someone correct me if I am wrong. I think it's perhaps a retroactive distinction in certain social circles/settings but not particularly consistent.
- f33d5173 2y agopicture (e) character (moji) actually Though the similarity to emoticon is amusing.
- ehnto 2y agoOh yeah, you are right. I had recalled it was a contraction of emotion and character. I wonder if the specific kanji for (e) was picked for it's reading, and thus double entendre in English, intentionally.
- ruthmarx 2y ago> Emoticons was a western word for emoji I think, which originated in Japan. Emoticons predate emoji are were always purely ascii text based.
- mprovost 2y agoIn an alternative universe where someone other than Americans invented the popular character set, would emoticons have existed at all if computers had the capability to display Unicode glyphs from the start? It feels like still insisting on using Morse code after keyboards were invented.
- ruthmarx 2y ago> would emoticons have existed at all if computers had the capability to display Unicode glyphs from the start? Probably not. > It feels like still insisting on using Morse code after keyboards were invented. For some of us older people it's a habit. Easier to type instead of going looking for an emoji, especially if not on a phone.
- ehnto 2y agoI prefer the aesthetic of it. But also there are specific tones for me and long term friends, that are not perfectly captured in the myriad different pictures. For example, ;_; and :P from english IRC days, do not map perfectly to the tongue out picture emojis in almost any set I have seen.
- sham1 2y agoEh, you'd get plenty of Westerners who'd argue that text goes beyond ASCII. Most of Europe, for example, requires Latin-1 at the very least. Not to even mention Greek and the like.
- sgarland 2y agoFair point. I still think there’s a vast difference between letters / glyphs and emoji, though. One is the default for communication, the other is optional at best.