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Re:Unicode in five minutes (2013) on Friday August 14, 2020 @03:54PM (#24162487)
> it gives a (double-story) and a (single-story) the same codepoint.

But they did see fit to have ɑ (LATIN SMALL LETTER alpha)which is distinct from α (GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA).

Re:NSA Owns Everything (2015) on Thursday August 13, 2020 @11:01AM (#24144005)
Conspiracy theory is just a buzzword to stop thought. "That doesn't need to be discussed or disproved because it is a conspiracy theory."
Re:Stopping phishing campaigns with Bash on Thursday August 13, 2020 @10:14AM (#24143520)
Not really important but:

`cat /dev/urandom | tr -dc '0-9' | fold -w 7 | head -n 1`

Can be accomplished in two steps instead of 4:

`tr -dc '0-9' < /dev/urandom | head -c 7`

They are effectively one country already.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Union_State