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I would think something like this: | | \ | \ | \ /\ | \/ \ | \ | _\/ | +——————————————— Could (more or less) fit that description and would make more sense as a symbol. Something like it even made it into Unicode ( https://emojipedia.org/chart-decreasing/ )
It's like o7 vs 7o; if you know you know: http://i.imgur.com/ZjhHU87.jpg
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We can't assume a signed int, as character encodings limit the number of codepoints: "Excluding surrogates and noncharacters leaves 1,111,998 code points available for use." -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode#:~:text=Excluding%20su...
But character encodings don't limit the number of codepoints. Unicode is just a big list of correspondences between an integer and a glyph. There's no limit to how many integers you can assign. Unicode encodings are separate standards that give correspondences between Unicode code points (integers) and byte sequences. If Unicode changes in a way that invalidates an encoding, that just calls for a new encoding.
These unicode characters feel like they were given to us from an alien species or something. How did it we end up with so many characters of unknown origin? I had no idea what it meant or was used for, thus assigned it a “descriptive name” when collating the symbols for the STIX project. (I still have no idea, nor can supply an example of the symbol in use.) […] it is the case that ISO 9573-13 existed long before eit…
>These unicode characters feel like they were given to us from an alien species or something. I worked at a large media company that had lots of differing icon sets in play across different media. These icons were in SVG and they had been optimized pretty intensely. In some cases due to a bug in one of the optimizing tools some types of bezier curves got weird, so instead of say the round headed person with their han…
That sounds like a useful reaction/ response these days.
I would think something like this: | | \ | \ | \ /\ | \/ \ | \ | _\/ | +——————————————— Could (more or less) fit that description and would make more sense as a symbol. Something like it even made it into Unicode ( https://emojipedia.org/chart-decreasing/ )
It looks like a symbol that someone added for completeness but isn't particularly useful even in the field.
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The word "public" in "public library" is load bearing, you can't replace it with "regular", hence your confusion. Private libraries (mine for example) are not free, as in beer or otherwise.
True, though to be fair most people never get to use private libraries. Or they used a library at their University that was technically private, but that gave access to the public as well. Public libraries are ubiquitous and very normal, while private libraries are the exception.
People tend to call their personal library a "book collection" or the like, but it's a library, in just the same way that a Little Free Library is.
So most people who read have at least a small private library, whether they think of it in those terms or not.
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I remember the days of people beginning to abuse ftp sites, all us admins shutting down our writable ftp upload folders, and thinking, "this is why we can't have nice things." It was the beginning of the end of the early, friendly internet.
Wearz were very nice things.
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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.
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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...)
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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
> ⋚ U+22DA LESS-THAN EQUAL TO OR GREATER-THAN > ⋛ U+22DB GREATER-THAN EQUAL TO OR LESS-THAN These are very interesting. What would be the use case for these?
> If the function f is differentiable and concave, then f′(x1)⋚f′(x2) as x1⋛x2. That is f′(x1) and f′(x2) have the opposite relation as x1 and x2.
Dislosure: I'm not directly from the fields of the Sciences Of Angles And Ambiguously Crossing Lines nor I've every seen or used this symbol before. However to me it's, pretty evidently, supposed to be a "no right angle" symbol. (A) It's in the math section, (B) it's with angles, (C) the thunderbolt ↯ is commonly used for "not" or more specifically for dis-proof in this area and (D) at least by my 30 s internet searc…
> (C) the thunderbolt ↯ is commonly used for "not" or more specifically for dis-proof in this area Any examples?
But maybe "commonly used" was maybe the wrong term. More appropriately: "sometimes" or "by some".
