- apotheotic (she/her) ( @apotheotic@beehaw.org ) English19•11 months ago
I can’t read “what a time to be alive” without hearing Two Minute Papers in my head
- AVincentInSpace ( @AVincentInSpace@pawb.social ) 4•11 months ago
hold onto your papers
- simplify ( @simplify@lemm.ee ) 16•11 months ago
I immediately thought of Leeroy Jenkins in the last sentence.
- Shhalahr ( @Shhalahr@beehaw.org ) 2•11 months ago
Pretty certain it’s an intentional reference.
- simplify ( @simplify@lemm.ee ) 2•11 months ago
You’re right, and someone else might be a part of the lucky 10,000 today.
- Shhalahr ( @Shhalahr@beehaw.org ) 1•11 months ago
And now we have the obligatory xkcd reference. 😁
- simplify ( @simplify@lemm.ee ) 2•11 months ago
- lowleveldata ( @lowleveldata@programming.dev ) 7•11 months ago
longer than necessary
It’s as long as it needs to be unique
- palordrolap ( @palordrolap@kbin.social ) 4•11 months ago
Sure. OK. How about we put the Greek alphabet at the lower code points and the Latin alphabet higher up, and now you might argue that Latin takes up more space than necessary.
Potential counterpoint: “This is stupid. Latin goes in the lower code points, it always has, it always will. Who’s putting Greek down there??”
Well, if Greece had invented computing as well as, let’s say, democracy that’s very likely how things would be.
In that timeline, someone is using exactly the same line on you “[The representation of Latin text in memory i]s as long as it needs to be unique.” and you’re annoyed because your short letter to Grandma is using far too much space on your hard drive.
- lowleveldata ( @lowleveldata@programming.dev ) 1•11 months ago
Oh true. I’d be so annoyed because I somehow wrote a whole letter to Grandma in English which she couldn’t read.
- dukk ( @dukk@programming.dev ) 2•11 months ago
And it has 333 upvotes! We must maintain this at all costs…