Re:The internet is multilingual but you need to learn Mandarin
by bobbyz on Sunday July 26, 2020 @04:34PM
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You're thinking about it from purely a programmer's perspective. Imagine the world switches to "bobish" tomorrow, which is 20% more efficient than english.
Suddenly, bandwidth decreases by 20%, downloads are 20% faster, server costs decrease 20%, data centre energy usage decreases by 20%, greenhouse gases from data centres decrease by 20%, and so global warming slows down by _% and on and on. Sure it won't be 20%, it might not be nearly that in many cases, but think about the magnitude of the rube goldberg of unknown efficiency increases you'll set off.
Re:The internet is multilingual but you need to learn Mandarin
by nix23 on Sunday July 26, 2020 @05:15PM
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>You're thinking about it from purely a programmer's perspective
>Suddenly, bandwidth decreases by 20%, downloads are 20% faster
Who is thinking from a programmer perspective now? Compression is not always a good thing, and for sure not in natural language.
Re:The internet is multilingual but you need to learn Mandarin
by bobbyz on Monday July 27, 2020 @12:08PM
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Why is compression bad in natural language? From reading those vitamin water labels it's clear to me that English still has room to shrink before we experience a substantial hit to readability. 'You' to 'u', 'what' to 'wat', 'phone' to 'fone', etc.
That has nothing to say, compare it to programming languages, is the language with the least LOC's the best language? No, often its a mix.