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In what encoding does "0x65" represent "e" ?
ASCII, UTF-8, ISO-8859-1 (Latin-1), Shift JIS, among others.
Am I tripping? I thought 65 was "A"?
Like Tweeting, but You Can't Use the Letter E
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#122Earlier quoted context omitted.
Indeed, the 140 character constraint was one of the things that made Twitter novel.
No that's what makes it suck. The limitation was for SMS compatibility, but the reality is that it makes it impossible to have meaningful discourse.
So don't have meaningful discourse over SMS/twitter. Use email/phone/forums/...
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#123If we want something like Twitter, but in the form of an open source protocol, we need to name it and brand it well. I remember when I first used Linux, I didn't "trust" it. There wasn't a singular OS called Linux and the GUI applications looked low quality because they didn't have good design or branding. To most people, the UI and branding is the product, so when they see it poorly implemented, it simply feels like…
> If you make open source feel expensive and luxurious, they will come Hmmm...So: let's ask a bunch of objective, analytical, concrete techies to pivot themselves over to a subjective, abstract, feelings-based judgment process which requires a great sensitivity and sense of cultural refinement.
I'm not sure what this ad hominem comment was supposed to accomplish. Don't we already have people who appreciate subjective and cultural concerns involved?
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#124Earlier quoted context omitted.
ASCII, UTF-8, ISO-8859-1 (Latin-1), Shift JIS, among others.
Am I tripping? I thought 65 was "A"?
Can't help you with your use of hallucinogenic substances, but I think you're mixing your decimal and hex. Decimal 65 is a capital "A". Hex 65 (0x65) gives you lowercase "e".
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#125Earlier quoted context omitted.
A good point and strong advocacy, though @mus, who thought up this particular handiwork and built it from scratch (not all of lipography, just this journalistically-fascinating lipography discussion forum), and also said in this discussion, supra , "this kind of broad situation is hard to fix" and so on, was so bold today as to post "300" in a toot purporting to follow lipographic norms. Ipsa dixit ! But if you say "…
Words do not contain glyphs during annunciation. A man pronouncing a word is not a man pronouncing glyph 1, glyph 2, glyph 3 but sound 1, sound 2, sound 3. So 300 is okay: I do not recoil from a foul glyph in it.
If you think so, don't you find "BRB" and "viz." OK too? My post's dad-post (though not by you) calls for avoiding such short forms on account of matching long forms' violations of lipographic norms.
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#126Earlier quoted context omitted.
Am I tripping? I thought 65 was "A"?
Can't help you with your use of hallucinogenic substances, but I think you're mixing your decimal and hex. Decimal 65 is a capital "A". Hex 65 (0x65) gives you lowercase "e".
Ooooooooh duhhhhhh. I applied "automatically ignore prefix" filter for some reason. Dumb brain.
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#127Link to the actual "social sharing hub", which is a mod of Mastodon: https://oulipo.social/about
That's a login form. Can you not look at posts on Mastodon without signing up for it? That sounds fatal for adoption.
You can see any users public timeline and posts at /@username, but the complete public timeline requires authentication (with this or any instance it's federated with).
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#128There's a musician named Andrew Huang who sometimes makes music based on song challenges from his fans. Years ago, I asked him to write a rap song in which none of the lyrics contain the letter "e." Like the person in the article, I had read "A Void" by Georges Perec, so that's where the idea came from. And about a day later, he posted this song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8-WtH4ujps
Wow, that musician has amazing skills! Thank you for sharing this.
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#130Earlier quoted context omitted.
No that's what makes it suck. The limitation was for SMS compatibility, but the reality is that it makes it impossible to have meaningful discourse.
So don't have meaningful discourse over SMS/twitter. Use email/phone/forums/...
Too much email. Too many people I know don't want to share their phone numbers. Forums are generally terrible.
Try using Mastodon and you'll find it's twitter with meaningful conversations. 500 characters is a game changer.