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U+237C ⍼ Right Angle with Downwards Zigzag Arrow

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Re: U+237C ⍼ Right Angle with Downwards Zigzag Arrow

#81

Post by ysavir »

hardware2win wrote: post #67
mbeex wrote: post #63

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think, you don't get the full grasp of "early, friendly internet". Very few people do today. In my bubble - programming, for example, young people can't even imagine that there were times when you could focus on _things_ instead of writing layers of security code around them.

I think you make it sound as if that was good, but it was straight naive or irresponsible

The GP is saying "I miss the days where I could easily exploit people" and the response was "I miss the days where we respected each other enough to not exploit each other". It wasn't naive or irresponsible, but reflective of a time with more trust, cooperation, and good intentions.

Re: U+237C ⍼ Right Angle with Downwards Zigzag Arrow

#82

Post by yreg »

pwdisswordfish9 wrote: post #2

Someone show him U+29B0 REVERSED EMPTY SET.

Not long ago I found these

    ≤ U+2264 LESS-THAN OR EQUAL TO
    ⋜ U+22DC EQUAL TO OR LESS-THAN
    ≥ U+2265 GREATER-THAN OR EQUAL TO
    ⋝ U+22DD EQUAL TO OR GREATER-THAN
or even

    ⋚ U+22DA LESS-THAN EQUAL TO OR GREATER-THAN
    ⋛ U+22DB GREATER-THAN EQUAL TO OR LESS-THAN

Re: U+237C ⍼ Right Angle with Downwards Zigzag Arrow

#83

Post by FabHK »

hardware2win wrote: post #67
mbeex wrote: post #63

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think, you don't get the full grasp of "early, friendly internet". Very few people do today. In my bubble - programming, for example, young people can't even imagine that there were times when you could focus on _things_ instead of writing layers of security code around them.

I think you make it sound as if that was good, but it was straight naive or irresponsible

"There are villages on the countryside that are safe and friendly, everyone knows each other, people don't even lock their door."

- "Man, those idiots are naive and irresponsible."

Re: U+237C ⍼ Right Angle with Downwards Zigzag Arrow

#85

Post by adrusi »

hardware2win wrote: post #67
mbeex wrote: post #63

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think, you don't get the full grasp of "early, friendly internet". Very few people do today. In my bubble - programming, for example, young people can't even imagine that there were times when you could focus on _things_ instead of writing layers of security code around them.

I think you make it sound as if that was good, but it was straight naive or irresponsible

That's like saying it's naive and irresponsible to gooutside without locking your front door when you live in a tiny remote village with 40 other people you've known for your whole life.

Re: U+237C ⍼ Right Angle with Downwards Zigzag Arrow

#87

Post by yreg »

I generally (perhaps naively) think that going forward knowledge loss won't be much of an issue compared to our history.

Surely the archeologists of the future won't have to wonder what some tool from our times was used for or what some symbol we currently use means… They will have Wikipedia and archive.org and whatnot!

But that fantasy is not compatible with reality where we are already unable to find out what is the purpose of some characters in Unicode.

Re: U+237C ⍼ Right Angle with Downwards Zigzag Arrow

#88

Post by lifthrasiir »

yreg wrote: post #82
pwdisswordfish9 wrote: post #2

Someone show him U+29B0 REVERSED EMPTY SET.

Not long ago I found these ≤ U+2264 LESS-THAN OR EQUAL TO ⋜ U+22DC EQUAL TO OR LESS-THAN ≥ U+2265 GREATER-THAN OR EQUAL TO ⋝ U+22DD EQUAL TO OR GREATER-THAN or even ⋚ U+22DA LESS-THAN EQUAL TO OR GREATER-THAN ⋛ U+22DB GREATER-THAN EQUAL TO OR LESS-THAN

The former is probably for the same reason that both plus-minus and minus-plus exist. The latter is commonly used for the "unordered" relation in partially ordered sets.

Re: U+237C ⍼ Right Angle with Downwards Zigzag Arrow

#89

Post by phyzome »

jorvi wrote: post #55
vletal wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I do not get it. Did you have to shut it down? Does not make sense to complain that someone uploaded stuff to a public unprotected writable storage. Wouldn't securing it with a set of credentials suffice?

Sometimes people should be able to do nice things without it getting abused, no? In The Netherlands, in the nicer neighborhoods we have something called a ‘buurtbieb’ aka a ‘neighborhood libraries’, which is a weatherproof cabinet where people can put surplus books that other people in the neighborhood can borrow. Of course you could take all the books or use the cabinet to store candy, but why would you?

Usually called Little Free Libraries in the US.

(The name is a little weird, because regular libraries are also free...)

Re: U+237C ⍼ Right Angle with Downwards Zigzag Arrow

#90

Post by Arubis »

jorvi wrote: post #55
vletal wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I do not get it. Did you have to shut it down? Does not make sense to complain that someone uploaded stuff to a public unprotected writable storage. Wouldn't securing it with a set of credentials suffice?

Sometimes people should be able to do nice things without it getting abused, no? In The Netherlands, in the nicer neighborhoods we have something called a ‘buurtbieb’ aka a ‘neighborhood libraries’, which is a weatherproof cabinet where people can put surplus books that other people in the neighborhood can borrow. Of course you could take all the books or use the cabinet to store candy, but why would you?

There’s actually coordination around these things: https://littlefreelibrary.org/
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