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coolbean

@coolbean@seafoam.space

advanced gender user

🐡 openbsd sympathizer 🐡

rj45 connoisseur

wannabe mech pilot with no mech

adap (all dolls are precious)

im not reliable and i do not wish to be relied upon

"to err is human, so dont" - quasar translunar
"you will never achieve salvation in the eyes of the lord but you may achieve salvation in the bed of a girl" - mia "void" rehab

opinions are not my own, i do not associate with the inhabitant(s) of this physical form and reject all opinions they may hold :spinny_cat_plural:

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astrid, to random
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hankerspace

coolbean,
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@astrid forgot to bring my clown nose to the honkerspace

mia, to random
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so, you've seen ™ and ™️ before. but like. why are there two. well, i have an explanation! the answer is: FE0F

first, unicode. unicode is a standard definition of a bunch of codepoints, where a codepoint is just a number with meaning. for example, unicode codepoint U+263A refers to ☺︎, or "White Smiling Face", and U+1F431 refers to 🐱, or "Cat Face"

so, lets start by looking at the codepoints for ™. decoding it, it becomes the codepoint U+2122, referred to as "Trade Mark Sign". this was added in unicode 1.1 in 1993, a decent time ago!

next, the codepoints for ™️. decoding it, we get two codepoints! U+2122 (™︎) and U+FE0F. wait. who is FE0F. why is he in my emoji

well, unicode isn't as simple as a series of codepoints that refer to single characters. take a look at é̗ for example. this is three codepoints, U+0065 (Latin Small Letter E), U+0301 (Combining Acute Accent), and U+0317 (Combining Acute Accent Below). the first codepoint is simple enough, it's just e. the next two, however, are combining codepoints. this means that they combine with the codepoint before them to modify it. U+0301 adds an acute accent above the previous codepoint, and U+0317 adds an acute accent below the previous codepoint. this example specifically isn't very useful (i don't know any language with a é̗ character beyond conlangs), but it becomes very useful for languages that use a lot of diacritics. imagine if we had to make a new set of characters for each set of possible diacritics! big waste of space, we shouldn't have done that!

so, what is U+FE0F? well, it's a special codepoint called "Variation Selector-16". variation selectors are a reserved block of 16 unicode codepoints. only some have been defined, but among those currently in use are U+FE0E (VS15) and U+FE0F (VS16). from wikipedia: "VS15 and VS16 are reserved to request that a character should be displayed as text or as an emoji respectively." so, what's happening with ™️ is that it's combining a U+2122 (™) and a U+FE0F (Variant Selector-16) to create an emoji version of ™. they're the same character, just that one has been instructed to become an emoji!

also, for the interested, here's the word "unicode" with a shit ton of combining characters: ù́̂̃̄̅̆̇̈̉n̖̗̘̙̐̑̒̓̔̕i̡̢̧̨̠̣̤̥̦̩c̴̵̶̷̸̰̱̲̳̹ò͇͈͉́͂̓̈́͆ͅd͓͔͕͖͙͐͑͒͗͘eͣͤͥͦͧͨͩ͢͠͡. what appears to be seven letters is actually 77 codepoints, taking up 147 bytes when encoded in utf-8. or 156 in utf-16. or 312 in utf-32. why does anyone use utf-16 if it's longer? historical reasons :3

TL;DR: ™️ is ™︎ but instructed to be an emoji

coolbean,
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@mia honestly, i respect utf-16, its not that practical but having everything in the basic multilingual plane be just one codepoint is just nice when doing low level shenanigans

coolbean,
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@argv_minus_one @mia we are marching fullspeed ahead in the 2037 bug because “y2k wasnt a big deal in the end”, i can assure you we will simply get fucked

coolbean, to random
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read about the supposed good parts of oop

actually its own entire paradigm and core to modern functional programming

:neocat_woozy:

coolbean,
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@astrid yea but also whats left when you take out the inheritance? thats just a grouping of other paradigms at that point

its only object oriented if it comes from the inheritance region of france, anything else is just sparkly modular programming

coolbean,
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@astrid thats the thing tho, an object without encapsulation is just a datatype that holds functions and data and lets you access them by defined names

…like a struct

volpeon, to random

"Babe, are you alright? You haven't even touched your Vodka Foxini"

coolbean,
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@volpeon this implies that a vodka martini actually contains a marten

coolbean, to random German
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big of heart, dumb of ass

astrid, to random
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it baffles my mind that github doesn't support ipv6 yet

coolbean,
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@astrid neither does steam and its just so fucking weird and dumb

coolbean,
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@astrid the worst part is because a lot of games integrate with steam’s infrastructure for networking, they cant either, which is a big reason why most steam games are ipv4 only

coolbean, to random German
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damn i forgot payday 3 came out

coolbean,
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@root not really, turns out that didnt fix its huge personality flaws

bighatlynx, to random
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instead of all fighting, can we just sit down and have biscuits together or any other snack, beverage or whatever of our choice?

coolbean,
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@root @bighatlynx idk monster mango loco tastes angry

astrid, to random
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what nix fork projects currently exist, im curious

coolbean,
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@astrid atm i think its too recent for any new ones to have popped up, so only guix for now

astrid, to random
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can't wait to deal with the problem in about a year or two where 2 of the 4 competing nix implementations evaluate and store the same derivation in very slightly different ways

coolbean,
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@astrid this is how guix can still win

1, to random
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:ms_robot_thinkgrin: are slimegirl dolls stored in dolldrums?

coolbean,
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@1 drum springs a leak and a green substance begins to ooze out. moments later that substance begins to take the shape of a hand further trying to pull itself out of the drum until it is all over the floor.

soon after the ooze has regained its strength it begins to morph into a somewhat humanoid shape as it vocalises in a gurgly tone “oh excuse its rudeness for not greeting you earlier, due to circumstances outside of its control it was sadly unable to. may it apologise with a cup of tea and some biscuits?

astrid, to random
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doll who is actually not a general purpose computing device

coolbean,
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@astrid calculator

coolbean,
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@astrid doll that stretches definitions

yassie_j, to random
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We’ve all been waiting for the Circle of Federation

coolbean,
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@yassie_j im just glad to be here

root, to random
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hot take: we don't need 4k monitors

coolbean,
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@chjara @root hey, can we like, upgrade to 1600x1200 please? i wanna be able to see small things

coolbean,
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@root @chjara 1366x768, i beg of you

coolbean, to random
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oh btw, hot take, what we need for media codecs isnt maximum compression ratio, i want em to stop nuking my cpu

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    coolbean,
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    @chjara so thats why amigaOS just isnt going away

    coolbean, to random
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    apparently dodge challengers get bought by people who really cant afford them so much the repossessions have actually depreciated their price in general

    18+ LianSirenia, to random
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    Switching to Linux

    coolbean,
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    @LianSirenia within 2 months of the egg cracking

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