uhl

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   by uhl 5y ago

   I was very surprised when my three-letter username and was actually available just about two months ago.
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   Porkbun top-level-domain artwork(porkbun.com)

   1 points by uhl 5y ago|0 comments
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   by uhl 5y ago

   I think the reason is just that it isn't widely used. It's a very niche use-case, anyway. Even link-shorteners don't particularly benefit from something like this, and for all cases where the actual amount of data is concerne
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   by uhl 5y ago

   That is fascinating! In particular, base2048 was designed after twitter adjusted the tweet limit to 280 characters, but started counting “heavy” codepoints as double, making the previously used base65536 less efficient in the context of a t
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   by uhl 5y ago

   More like tetris as in Tetromino: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetromino