Posts by wrenpile@mastodon.social
(DIR) Post #9hfWUGNBt8oiNNK9j6 by wrenpile@mastodon.social
2019-04-10T14:25:52Z
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@clacke @jwildeboer Uh, all I see when I go to that link is the character string "success".
(DIR) Post #9hfWUGwHmetE8DkBQe by wrenpile@mastodon.social
2019-04-10T14:41:03Z
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@bhtooefr @clacke @jwildeboer OK, thanks very much.
(DIR) Post #9hjN6ZAyCq9qmr4byq by wrenpile@mastodon.social
2019-04-12T12:13:43Z
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@dredmorbius Is that the origin of the word “heinous”?
(DIR) Post #9hmBBHWSeVNfVZUHVQ by wrenpile@mastodon.social
2019-04-13T20:44:14Z
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@mattskala @enkiv2 This of course is a subset of the phenomenon of people feeling the (usually internal) pressure to give advice when they’re not likely to be able to help the advisee.I try to take a deep breath first and ask myself if it’s really a good idea to proceed. I remind myself that I can lose more face in the long run by giving bad advice than by demurring.
(DIR) Post #9hmPQeiC7GY189CV8a by wrenpile@mastodon.social
2019-04-13T23:21:51Z
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For many months now, we’ve been watching one of those condo needles rise across the East River from us, between the Manhattan Bridge anchorages from our viewpoint. Our attitude has been basically “rich people are taking away another part of our view”.Tonight, though, I have to admit it looks great at sunset.#nyc
(DIR) Post #9hmRGiPFj1SFbKjES8 by wrenpile@mastodon.social
2019-04-13T23:44:30Z
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@dredmorbius I’m an ape.
(DIR) Post #9ho8CXaEVrHm3z52bw by wrenpile@mastodon.social
2019-04-14T19:20:16Z
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@mattskala @enkiv2 If I realized my father felt that way, I might look into his eyes and say, “Sorry, I really don’t know enough about the topic to feel responsible in giving you advice. But I’m pretty good at web search; should I try that?”NB This is not advice.🙃
(DIR) Post #9hrZvX7yKoRXuwQ5xI by wrenpile@mastodon.social
2019-04-16T11:15:05Z
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@xahlee Slow doing everything or what? Doesn’t seem to be a problem in the Windows version.
(DIR) Post #9htris3BQ6VcXDDAhc by wrenpile@mastodon.social
2019-04-17T13:43:54Z
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@xahlee …or maybe it’s God’s way to tell you to back up your data.
(DIR) Post #9i2rJ39JHU4DqnP7SK by wrenpile@mastodon.social
2019-04-21T20:58:03Z
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“Vessel” is a very strange word. It refers either to a structure that holds a fluid *in*, e.g., a cup, or to something that keeps a fluid *out*, e.g., a boat.The Shawarma, which is a complicated lattice, of course fails either use.
(DIR) Post #9i8wN7wnkEvUBpxKue by wrenpile@mastodon.social
2019-04-24T20:16:40Z
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@xahlee character: ☭ (displayed as ☭) (codepoint 9773, #o23055, #x262d) preferred charset: unicode (Unicode (ISO10646))code point in charset: 0x262D buffer code: #xE2 #x98 #xAD file code: #xE2 #x98 #xAD (encoded by coding system utf-8) display: by this font (glyph code)Character code properties: name: HAMMER AND SICKLE general-category: So (Symbol, Other) decomposition: (9773) ('☭')
(DIR) Post #9i92QosbBCrDw48Nk0 by wrenpile@mastodon.social
2019-04-24T21:24:34Z
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@xahlee Oh, right.😬
(DIR) Post #9i98SgghCwUEpgqBNY by wrenpile@mastodon.social
2019-04-24T21:25:59Z
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@xahlee Maybe the Unicode Consortium decided not to get into flags of defunct countries.
(DIR) Post #9iIyz8R8W6QmCUzmqm by wrenpile@mastodon.social
2019-04-29T16:33:03Z
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@mattskala @xahlee The heinous thing about this is, UTF-8 is a couple of years older than JavaScript.
(DIR) Post #9iJT2CsfRoTRTeFnZQ by wrenpile@mastodon.social
2019-04-29T21:27:17Z
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Not sure about public awareness, but the Wikipedia page says "UTF-8 was first officially presented at the USENIX conference in San Diego, from January 25 to 29, 1993."
(DIR) Post #9iJWh643zixG4Ym1p2 by wrenpile@mastodon.social
2019-04-29T22:50:46Z
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@xahlee Sorry, I don't know what you mean by utf8 monthly.Sure, I think js *should* have chosen utf8.
(DIR) Post #9iJklCvRpH6Zrtb8pU by wrenpile@mastodon.social
2019-04-30T01:28:23Z
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@xahlee Sorry, I can't remember when utf8 became a big part of my life.And I really have no idea whether the early JS team felt it was important to follow Java's practices where possible.I do remember that when I first encountered JS and Java, around the same time (I can't put a date on it now), I was struck by how ponderous Java was - I just didn't want to go near it if I could possibly avoid it.
(DIR) Post #9iKbVRRpMNstqU6vbs by wrenpile@mastodon.social
2019-04-30T11:19:24Z
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@xahlee True that.
(DIR) Post #9iKbgfWVMtB2gXeUWu by wrenpile@mastodon.social
2019-04-30T11:21:26Z
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@FerdiZ Not to mention the people who depend on you …
(DIR) Post #9iKcAheM1fp7y5e3H6 by wrenpile@mastodon.social
2019-04-30T11:26:52Z
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@xahlee Speaking of marketing force, Microsoft was all in on utf16 early on.