syklemil

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[–] syklemil@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 4 months ago (10 children)

Q. P is a common character across languages. But Q is mostly unused, at least outside the romance languages who appear to spell K that way. But that can be solved by letting the characters have the same code point, and rendering it as K in most regions, and Q in France. I can't imagine any problems arising from that. :)

[–] syklemil@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I'm not entirely sure here, but you are aware you're in a humour community, yeah?

[–] syklemil@discuss.tchncs.de 18 points 4 months ago

Neovim developer got sidetracked configuring their reply plugin

[–] syklemil@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 4 months ago

If it's any help, I only ever had it at my nonna's and she died of old age some years ago. I've thought about seeing if I could find a recipe, but I also don't want to be banned from Italy and Italian restaurants

[–] syklemil@discuss.tchncs.de 0 points 4 months ago (18 children)

It's a joke because it includes useless letters nobody needs, like that weird o with the leg, and a rich set of field and record separating characters that are almost completely forgotten, etc, but not normal letters used in everyday language >:(

[–] syklemil@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 4 months ago

Nudie is Swedish afaik, yeah.

From Norway we have https://www.lividjeans.com/

[–] syklemil@discuss.tchncs.de 38 points 4 months ago (24 children)

With ASCII æs the åriginal sin. Can't even spell my name with that joke of an encoding >:(

[–] syklemil@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 4 months ago (2 children)

There's some interest in attracting non-awful people from the US. Get a bit of a brain drain going from there:)

[–] syklemil@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 4 months ago (7 children)

What, like an anglophone who can't tell the difference between the i and y sounds?

(Or do the anglos actually pronounce it "tajpst"?)

[–] syklemil@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 4 months ago (2 children)

And the macaroni soup with sugar and cinnamon?

[–] syklemil@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Isn't that sort of just the cost of doing business in C? It's a sparse language, so it falls to the programmer to cobble together more.

I do also think the concrete example of emails should be taken as a stand-in. Errors like swapping a parameter for an email application is likely not very harmful and detected early given the volume of email that exists. But in other, less fault-tolerant applications it becomes a lot more valuable.

[–] syklemil@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 4 months ago

It is pretty funny that C's type system can be described pretty differently based on the speaker's experience. The parable of the Blub language comes to mind.

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