rcoveson

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by rcoveson 3y ago
You've now replied to me up to 2 times.
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by rcoveson 3y ago
But you also read it as referring to ZWJ sequences? So the author has picked a number that is actually below average and they've worded it as up to... ? Saying a ZWJ sequence can be "up to 5 bytes" is like saying "the
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by rcoveson 3y ago
Continue to the next sentence of context: > You also need to read ahead as there are combination characters, for example a smiley combined with the color brow becomes a brown smiley. Emphasis mine. Clearly combination characters are be
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by rcoveson 3y ago
Yes, UTF-8 was up to 6 bytes per character early on. Some broken implementations like MySQL's limit it to up to 3 bytes per character. The actual number is 4. So what is "up to 5"?
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by rcoveson 3y ago
My question is about the phrase up to 5 . What in Unicode is up to 5? Codepoints are up to 4 in all the encodings I know. ZWJ sequences may as well be arbitrarily long. What is "up to 5"?
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by rcoveson 3y ago
No, that's a ZWJ sequence. Those can be arbitrarily long. Doesn't explain where "5 bytes" comes from.
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by rcoveson 3y ago
Morgan Stanley Capital Partners: The middle-market private equity platform that cares.
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by rcoveson 3y ago
> So one Unicode character can be up to 5 bytes long and take up the same canvas space as 3 characters. 5 bytes? In what encoding?
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by rcoveson 3y ago
That comparison doesn't work unless the lawyer is also donating lawyer-work to the soup kitchen, either directly or indirectly (with money earned). Then you could say the time at the soup kitchen is for the sake of motivation and und
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by rcoveson 3y ago
I'm just glad you saw fit to let us read your insightful critique. Let me know if you ever do decide to get those pages out; you've got a fan in me!
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by rcoveson 3y ago
Phrenologically. Now both sides are happy!
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by rcoveson 3y ago
I think you're making some incorrect, bold claims about art in an effort to simultaneously defend all artists and insult all engineers. You don't need to "go back to cave dweller's paintings to even have the first idea a
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by rcoveson 3y ago
> Scared of what you don't understand? Oof, big flashbacks to conversations I wish I never had with essential oils advocates and religious fundamentalists.
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by rcoveson 3y ago
> So companies are making less on the products they sell through Amazon because as you say "sellers want to do is pass that fee on to the customer" but can't because Amazon's policies prevent this and this bad for the
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by rcoveson 3y ago
You're off by so many orders of magnitude that I'm forced to ask if you've looked into text-to-image generation prices versus artist commision prices, as well as completion timeframes. There are a lot of things that AI text-t
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by rcoveson 3y ago
Amazon collects a fee for every item sold, something like 10%. What sellers want to do is pass that fee on to the customer while keeping their prices lower at other outlets where the fees aren't as high, so they make a constant margin
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by rcoveson 3y ago
There's no way people actually use random websites to generate their passwords, right? Like, I can't just post or comment a password generator to a reasonably-tech-savvy forum like HN and have people actually use it to generate th
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by rcoveson 3y ago
It's a password generator hosted on a domain with zero reputation. Insufficient entopy is nowhere near as concerning as the software distribution mechanism. Audit the code? Maybe it's different tomorrow. Maybe it's different
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by rcoveson 3y ago
Say the post had been "How Netflix uses FreeBSD to achieve network latencies less than 10 microseconds" or something. How helpful would it be to comment about how "for most people" this doesn't matter? Did anybody w
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by rcoveson 3y ago
Why make "for most people" points when we're already talking about FreeBSD? There's a sort of uni-/light-kernel race quietly happening right now since the industry doesn't really fully trust process isolation w
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by rcoveson 3y ago
The author and I experienced School of Rock very differently. Dewey Finn is a bit of a loser at the start, but he's still the coolest guy on screen. All his foils seem overly self-serious and/or very unhappy with their lives. We l
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by rcoveson 3y ago
> It's neat to see how this tends to affect the quality of the software. In which direction? I’ve used both recently and while I prefer the design decisions of KDE/plasma over those made by GNOME3 in almost every case, I defini
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by rcoveson 3y ago
How to better spend resources than commenting multiple times per hour in defense of the idea that nobody here can prove that an effort to cull an invasive weed will have an impact on the ecosystem in a million years? You could go lie down a
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by rcoveson 3y ago
Yeah, everybody agrees on what a character is, right? It's just {an ASCII byte|a UTF8 code unit|a UTF16 code unit|a Unicode code point|a Unicode grapheme}.
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by rcoveson 3y ago
But what about the allergens? The risk of salmonella? Have you seen the damage an angy chicken can do with those claws? I've heard that Avian Influenza is on the rise again. Can't they just learn about chickens on their EduTablets
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by rcoveson 3y ago
There are much better arguments than "I want to blow up a bomb in my house" as well. Oh, and there are better arguments than "I want to dig the house out of the ground and drop it from a great height". One example of a r
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by rcoveson 3y ago
Why can't people just do exclusively normal things in their home, like eat corn flakes and consume popular media?
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by rcoveson 3y ago
That’s like saying that pacifists who refuse to own guns don’t really think war is bad, because they won’t take up arms to implement peace. Fighting fire with fire is one option. Fighting fire with water is another.
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by rcoveson 3y ago
Please upload all open source code to everywhere that will accept it. Make everything indestructible. Make it as easy as possible to find an authentic copy. Stick every bit of code with license that allows it in every free and proprietary
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by rcoveson 3y ago
I worked in an HPC lab at a medium-sized university around 10 years ago. Python was definitely the most popular interpreted language among the students. I remember it was years(?) earlier that MIT had switched much of its curriculum to Pyth

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