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Re:Unicode Cyrillic Letter Multiocular O
on Friday June 05, 2026 @05:08AM (#48409931)
Multiocular O (ꙮ) is a unique glyph variant found in a single 15th-century manuscript (thereby a hapax legomenon), in the Old Church Slavonic phrase серафими многоꙮчитїи (abbreviated мн̑оꙮ҆читїи̑; serafimi mnogoočitii, 'many-eyed seraphim').
The character was proposed for inclusion into Unicode in 2007 and incorporated as character U+A66E in Unicode version 5.1 (2008). The representative glyph had seven eyes and sat on the baseline. However, in 2021, following a tweet highlighting the character, it came to linguist Michael Everson's attention that the character in the 1429 manuscript was actually made up of ten eyes. After a 2022 proposal to change the character to reflect this, it was updated later that year for Unicode 15.0 to have ten eyes and to extend below the baseline.
Re:Ask HN: What's the best lecture series you've ever seen?
on Tuesday January 31, 2023 @02:21AM (#34592282)
Robert Sopolsky's Behavioral Biology at Stanford
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL848F2368C90DDC3D
Absolutely brilliant and engaging explanations of some difficult to understand topics. Especially lesson 22 on Emergence and Complexity has been an eye opener.
Re:From August 1: Cash transactions above NIS 6k illegal
on Tuesday July 26, 2022 @02:24AM (#32235010)
If the law is nonsense then breaking the law is a very good use case.
Re:Brave Search Goggles: Alter search rankings with rules and filters
on Thursday June 23, 2022 @02:49AM (#31845910)
Would help to have an easy toggle between the different ones.
Re:The business impact of code quality (2017)
on Wednesday June 22, 2022 @11:26AM (#31837286)
What engineers mean by debt toughly falls into two buckets. The first is actual debt, coding done on borrowed time, either consciously or unconsciously. The second is when a lack of experience, knowledge, laziness or other bad habits cause the code written to not be adaptable/agile enough to later have a low cost of change when the world changes.
Many reasons and excuses for each, but the first one is usually due to business reasons (why polish and mature one feature when you can develop five) while the second is due to engineering reasons.
Re:New GitHub Profile Badges Beta
on Thursday June 09, 2022 @12:33PM (#31683327)
True, but why do people think they need validation to collaborate?
Re:Luna Cryptocurrency Collapse: How UST Broke
on Saturday May 14, 2022 @03:17AM (#31375771)
At the end of the day, it's either proof of work or proof of force. You can't have a good society build on force, implicit or explicit. In a perfect world we could go with proof of stake, but the world is what it is.
Re:Luna Cryptocurrency Collapse: How UST Broke
on Saturday May 14, 2022 @03:09AM (#31375741)
All this causes is a massive amount of busywork just to have a shot at maintaining the value of your previous work. This is not necessary for a good economy, not to mention all the externalities it creates.
Re:Russian forces invade Ukraine after Putin orders attack
on Thursday February 24, 2022 @03:06AM (#30452038)
Don't want to sound mean or anything, but you should read more in depth on these "nation" states before taking that position.
Re:Why are letters shaped the way they are?
on Monday February 14, 2022 @02:08AM (#30329089)
To me it seems like we haven't reinvented the same thing, but semi-adapted an existing process of communication to the technology available. It's almost like emoji's are the next step of pictograms, however they're mostly used to provide (extra) context to the existing form of commucation.
It's a bit like doing this:
"It was a very sunny day." <- regular sentence
"It was a very [sun emoji] day." <- same thing
"It was a very sunny day. [happy face emoji]" <- v3 pictos that (implicitly?) communicate extra context
"It was a very sunny day. [高兴]" <- same thing, but v1 pictos
Re:Are popular toxicity models simply profanity detectors?
on Tuesday January 25, 2022 @02:10AM (#30069053)
With companies like that, at the end of the day they only really answer to shareholders so every problem is a nail.
Re:Everything must be paid for twice
on Sunday January 23, 2022 @05:19AM (#30045051)
Some quick advice, move from FOMO (fear of missing out) to JOMO (joy of missing out).
Re:Cryptoland [video]
on Monday January 10, 2022 @02:39AM (#29871673)
Seems like it's a crypto secret society.
Re:GPT-3 APIs are now in public beta
on Thursday December 16, 2021 @03:34AM (#29576268)
Not exactly, it's a service with unpredictable output. This isn't like a knife where you know what will happen depending on how you use it.
Re:The Strange, Unfinished Saga of Cyberpunk 2077
on Saturday December 11, 2021 @03:25AM (#29519438)
CDPR doesn't iterate and test their code in the optimal way. Most of the time they just go at it full on and patch things up at the end.
This was (un)fortunately for them a project where the complexity rose so high that their approach couldn't handle it (also covid didn't help), and they were left with intertwined systems that were causing severe performance bottlenecks everywhere (think polynomial or even exponential).
AI the way they planned it meant spawning hundreds of NPCs, all interacting with one another and the player, with badly designed systems for that interaction (because why spend upfront time on this if you can floor it), and almost no consideration on how that would impact the graphics and physics sides of the game.
The whole development of this game is a case study of how to fail at keeping your externalities in check.
Re:An engineer's observations on Web3 and its possibilities
on Wednesday November 24, 2021 @01:32AM (#29327430)
That's because everyone fell for the systems fallacy. Blockchain was designed for bitcoin to function, for that purpose alone. Then because it worked for that one use case of a decentralized storage/transfer of value, people assumed they could make it work for everything else. Not how technology works.
Re:When is the revolution in architecture coming?
on Tuesday November 09, 2021 @02:25AM (#29158777)
Depends on what you mean by bad. And which era of Soviet architecture. The block flats look like prisons and feel like the budget ran out 1/3 of the way building them. The early stuff looks excellent, at least the well built parts. The overall build quality is a bit hit or miss on everything.
Re:The promise and paradox of decentralization
on Saturday November 06, 2021 @03:22AM (#29128139)
Full transparency of how the system classifies a given person, person is fully annonymous and it's based on reputation alone. Then let ME decide the parameters of what I want to see. Treat it like a decision support system for content. Can be gamed for sure, but give new accounts the base defaults only (like certain subreddits do) and it would eliminate most of this since the barrier to abusing it is very high. Also, teach users that they might sometimes see something weird or bad, be transparent with them. This shielding behavior is like a helicopter parent soccer mom "protecting" their kid. It's annoying there and it's dangerous here.
Re:The End of Solitude (2009)
on Thursday October 28, 2021 @03:22AM (#29023352)
https://web.archive.org/web/20201109014700/https://www.chron...
Recommend to quickly switch to reader view since after a while, even on wayback, it puts up a popup.
Re:I switched from macOS to Linux after 15 years of Apple
on Friday August 27, 2021 @03:00AM (#28325093)
The way I see it it's like building a house or buying one. People should do what they want. I'd like more of us to build our houses, but to each his own.
Re:It became common in the 18th century to speak of ‘English credulity’
on Monday August 23, 2021 @03:36AM (#28273176)
I think the proliferation of it made people aware and learn quickly to proceed with caution on many fronts.
Re:Measuring 'Return on Investment' of Various College Degrees
on Wednesday August 18, 2021 @02:56AM (#28218353)
Can anyone offer a mirror?
Re:Thunderbird 91.0
on Thursday August 12, 2021 @03:24AM (#28153121)
Fine, but at least make it consistent then. GitHub uses "main" and now this uses "primary", next someone will use "base" and I'm not sure at all how this is better in any way.
Re:The 'Fuck You' Pattern
on Tuesday June 29, 2021 @05:13AM (#27673562)
I can do the same thing on linux and macos without the app being an ad.
Re:The bullshit-jobs thesis may be bullshit
on Saturday June 05, 2021 @03:17AM (#27402949)
This is implying that externalities of bad government policies (ie encouraging high home owner rates) weren't the main cause of the market needing a bail out.
Re:Universal basic income to be tested in Wales
on Saturday May 15, 2021 @08:30AM (#27164602)
I think these experiments should use a better name if that's the case, ie limited basic income.
Re:Universal basic income to be tested in Wales
on Saturday May 15, 2021 @08:28AM (#27164590)
It seems like many politicians have a very emotional reaction to these kinds to experiments, seemingly afraid that the results will contradict their beliefs or that they'll somehow be at a loss.
And it's not just one or the other side either, since it looks like UBI could address a lot of issues (ie overall govt waste) the entrenched bureaucracy is by default resistant to it.
Re:Universal basic income to be tested in Wales
on Saturday May 15, 2021 @08:25AM (#27164567)
I'm curious, can we determine from small scale tests like this whether the data we get from them is scale independent?
Re:Montana to cancel unemployment benefits to address severe workforce...
on Thursday May 06, 2021 @03:24AM (#27060116)
Is it measured the same way though?