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Re: αcτµαlly pδrταblε εxεcµταblε

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Post by InafuSabi »

snarfy wrote: post #28

Back when all you had was minicom dialing a BBS, there was a chicken and egg problem where you needed uudecode to decode any executable you downloaded. If you did not have uudecode you were stuck. If you are unfamiliar, unencoding a file allows you to send binary data through text transmission. Then a clever version of a DOS .COM file was posted which implemented uudecode, but it only used x86 instructions that were…

Great memories you brought back. Minicom times were so simple, the BBS sysop dialed upr2.clu.net for us so we had a nice UUCP connection and got our mails pushed out.

I had to undergo the same chicken egg situation with uudecode

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Post by whiddershins »

axegon_ wrote: post #74

People... Please stop using foreign alphabets like that! It's a nightmare for those of us who know the alphabets. It took me a good 20 seconds to read the title. And it's magnitudes worse when someone uses cyrillic for instance and it's native to me.

I hear your pain.

I wish this wasn’t the top voted comment.

Things that are subversive, clever, mind bending, tongue in cheek ... tend to get criticized around these parts for not being simple, plain, and literal.

Re: αcτµαlly pδrταblε εxεcµταblε

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Post by knolax »

jonathanstrange wrote: post #177
axegon_ wrote: post #74

People... Please stop using foreign alphabets like that! It's a nightmare for those of us who know the alphabets. It took me a good 20 seconds to read the title. And it's magnitudes worse when someone uses cyrillic for instance and it's native to me.

Ι ⅼіκе іτ аɴԁ аⅼѡауѕ геϲоⅿⅿеɴԁ τо реорⅼе τо τаκе ⅿоге аԁⅴаɴτаɡе оғ ⋃ɴіϲоԁе.

Tʜᴇʀᴇ ᴀʀᴇ ᴀʟʀᴇᴀᴅʏ ᴅᴇᴅɪᴄᴀᴛᴇᴅ ᴄʜᴀʀᴀᴄᴛᴇʀs ғᴏʀ sᴍᴀʟʟ ᴄᴀᴘs

Re: αcτµαlly pδrταblε εxεcµταblε

#194

Post by elmo2you »

jcelerier wrote: post #182
Razengan wrote: post #174

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> This is mean but it comes accross as though you are just wanting to show off you knowledge of a different alphabet There are people whose native languages are in those alphabets. Quick: How would you pronounce СССР? Hint: It would be completely wrong, because it's not English.

bold of you to assume the existence of an objective right or wrong mapping from characters to sounds

One might argue that "context" is a valid discriminator for that, but your point certainly has validity too. They are just two different arguments. The argument of arrogance in claiming an absolute right from wrong, and the argument that context can make one interpretation more correct because it relates to the meaning and not just the description of something.

Re: αcτµαlly pδrταblε εxεcµταblε

#195

Post by elmo2you »

jimmydorry wrote: post #186
op00to wrote: post #138

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Please explain your reasoning for this.

Not GP, but I'll take a crack at this. The stupid game would be making your article title not an immediately obvious summary of your article. The stupid prize would be this HN thread now that is only discussing the title, instead of the actual article.

Which, I would argue, says at least as much about the HN crowd as it does about whoever posted the article under this specific title.

EDIT: more specifically .. it's rather ironic how judgmental (and honestly: pretty darn pretentiously) so many here instantly get, yet how there is this implied assumption that the collective wisdom and judgement of this community is above criticism itself, somehow. It might say far more about HN, that nobody appears to be discussing the article's content itself, than it says about the (mis)use of alphabets.

I can read Cyrillic fluently, and a bit of Greek too, yet I'm not in the least bit upset about this pun. If this does upset anyone, maybe it's time for some seriously self-reflection for those people, about what they decide to get upset about and what not.

Re: αcτµαlly pδrταblε εxεcµταblε

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Post by [deleted] »

murbard2 wrote: post #150
axegon_ wrote: post #74

People... Please stop using foreign alphabets like that! It's a nightmare for those of us who know the alphabets. It took me a good 20 seconds to read the title. And it's magnitudes worse when someone uses cyrillic for instance and it's native to me.

It's cringe, but I don't find it hard to read, anymore than knowning numbers precludes me from reading "4c7u411y p0274813 3x3cu74813".

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Re: αcτµαlly pδrταblε εxεcµταblε

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Post by yjftsjthsd-h »

shandor wrote: post #155
StavrosK wrote: post #141

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That means you can't copy the executable after executing once and have it run on Windows, correct?

Probably the rewriting is only done on the program loaded into RAM?

No, there's a discussion upthread about running on Darwin that specifically says you have to run as `bash ./foo` first time and `./foo` thereafter because it overwrites on disk.

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Post by vikramkr »

murbard2 wrote: post #150
axegon_ wrote: post #74

People... Please stop using foreign alphabets like that! It's a nightmare for those of us who know the alphabets. It took me a good 20 seconds to read the title. And it's magnitudes worse when someone uses cyrillic for instance and it's native to me.

It's cringe, but I don't find it hard to read, anymore than knowning numbers precludes me from reading "4c7u411y p0274813 3x3cu74813".

I'm not sure what precluded me from reading that, but I don't think not knowing numbers would have helped me figure out that portable is p0274813 without context clues. Might need a more readily parseable example there.

Re: αcτµαlly pδrταblε εxεcµταblε

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Post by remram »

axegon_ wrote: post #74

People... Please stop using foreign alphabets like that! It's a nightmare for those of us who know the alphabets. It took me a good 20 seconds to read the title. And it's magnitudes worse when someone uses cyrillic for instance and it's native to me.

It's not even that, why does this headline deserve to stick out from others on the HN front page? What's the next step, make your title bold or twenty lines long for an unfair click advantage?

> 𝐀𝐜𝐭𝐮𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐞𝐱𝐞𝐜𝐮𝐭𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞

I'd rather see submissions stand out for their content.

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