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Notices by Peter Brett (krans@mastodon.me.uk)

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    Peter Brett (krans@mastodon.me.uk)'s status on Saturday, 24-May-2025 16:34:14 JST Peter Brett Peter Brett
    • Neil Brown

    @neil I loved my Zaurus C-3000. Even as a Sharp employee in 2005 it was hard to get one in the UK. Mine is languishing in a box somewhere, untouched since the day I acquired the even-better Nokia N900.

    In conversation about 6 days ago from mastodon.me.uk permalink
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    Peter Brett (krans@mastodon.me.uk)'s status on Tuesday, 08-Apr-2025 01:25:33 JST Peter Brett Peter Brett
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    • Rich Felker

    @dalias That seems lukewarm at best. I think you could replace “C“ and “Rust” with any programming language and it would still be true.

    “‘vibe coded’ Lua is a far greater risk that well engineered Brainfuck.

    In conversation about 2 months ago from mastodon.me.uk permalink
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    Peter Brett (krans@mastodon.me.uk)'s status on Monday, 17-Mar-2025 07:37:49 JST Peter Brett Peter Brett

    I wish Mastodon had a way to add a note for me to remind myself why someone is blocked, e.g. “Sealioning,” “Xenophobia,” or “Can't deal with right now”

    In conversation about 2 months ago from mastodon.me.uk permalink
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    Peter Brett (krans@mastodon.me.uk)'s status on Saturday, 15-Mar-2025 03:13:08 JST Peter Brett Peter Brett
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    • Rich Felker

    @dalias “a small cleft, slit, or fissure” is also a very respectable word, isn't it?

    In conversation about 3 months ago from mastodon.me.uk permalink
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    Peter Brett (krans@mastodon.me.uk)'s status on Saturday, 15-Mar-2025 02:04:27 JST Peter Brett Peter Brett
    in reply to
    • Michael T Babcock
    • Rich Felker

    @mikebabcock Human language is complex. As far as I can, most of the complexity in Unicode arises from scripts being inherently complex; the remainder is due to providing a migration path from older encoding forms.

    I haven't found any complexity in Unicode that I didn't (grudgingly) agree was necessary, apart from emoji…

    @dalias

    In conversation about 3 months ago from mastodon.me.uk permalink
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    Peter Brett (krans@mastodon.me.uk)'s status on Thursday, 13-Mar-2025 21:20:06 JST Peter Brett Peter Brett
    in reply to
    • Michael T Babcock
    • Rich Felker

    @dalias I thought surrogates were USVs but not codepoints? @mikebabcock

    In conversation about 3 months ago from mastodon.me.uk permalink
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    Peter Brett (krans@mastodon.me.uk)'s status on Thursday, 13-Mar-2025 21:11:35 JST Peter Brett Peter Brett
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    • Michael T Babcock
    • Rich Felker

    @dalias Yes, it's not mapped to a character it's not a codepoint. Sorry, my wording was ambiguous.

    @mikebabcock

    In conversation about 3 months ago from mastodon.me.uk permalink
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    Peter Brett (krans@mastodon.me.uk)'s status on Thursday, 13-Mar-2025 21:07:48 JST Peter Brett Peter Brett
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    • Michael T Babcock

    @mikebabcock Those are code units

    In conversation about 3 months ago from mastodon.me.uk permalink
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    Peter Brett (krans@mastodon.me.uk)'s status on Thursday, 13-Mar-2025 21:07:46 JST Peter Brett Peter Brett
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    • Michael T Babcock

    @mikebabcock Quick guide to Unicode terminology:

    - code units: the in-memory elements of the text encoding, i.e. bytes for UTF-8, 32-bit integers for UTF-32, etc
    - codepoints: the numbers in the range 0–0x10FFFF that are mapped to abstract characters
    - graphemes: the smallest functional units of a script, formed from one or more codepoints
    - grapheme clusters: the things people usually would describe as ”a character” for the purpose of cursor motion, “the number of characters,” etc.

    In conversation about 3 months ago from mastodon.me.uk permalink
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    Peter Brett (krans@mastodon.me.uk)'s status on Wednesday, 15-Jan-2025 00:01:35 JST Peter Brett Peter Brett
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    • Glyn Moody

    @glynmoody WTAF

    In conversation about 5 months ago from mastodon.me.uk permalink
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    Peter Brett (krans@mastodon.me.uk)'s status on Thursday, 09-Jan-2025 18:37:44 JST Peter Brett Peter Brett
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    • Glyn Moody
    • MJ Ray

    @mjr OFCOM have been, and continue to be, completely useless and ineffectual at holding anyone with actual power to account. They only ever punch down.

    @glynmoody

    In conversation about 5 months ago from mastodon.me.uk permalink
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    Peter Brett (krans@mastodon.me.uk)'s status on Thursday, 09-Jan-2025 18:37:27 JST Peter Brett Peter Brett
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    • Glyn Moody

    @glynmoody Meanwhile many small discussion forums have announced geoblocking the UK because of the completely unmanageable liabilities created by the Online Safety Act. One law for the rich, another for the poor…

    In conversation about 5 months ago from mastodon.me.uk permalink
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    Peter Brett (krans@mastodon.me.uk)'s status on Thursday, 09-Jan-2025 06:29:34 JST Peter Brett Peter Brett
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    • Daphne Preston-Kendal

    @dpk This is very thought-provoking — thank you! Is it even _possible_ to have a single basic record abstraction that fits all use cases (or can be used to build all use cases), as you suggest? Some of the most basic criteria seem mutually exclusive, but maybe I just haven't thought about it for long enough…

    In conversation about 5 months ago from mastodon.me.uk permalink
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    Peter Brett (krans@mastodon.me.uk)'s status on Saturday, 04-Jan-2025 18:40:31 JST Peter Brett Peter Brett
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    • Glyn Moody

    @glynmoody From the story, it sounds like he's going to get no punishment whatsoever.

    In conversation about 5 months ago from mastodon.me.uk permalink
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    Peter Brett (krans@mastodon.me.uk)'s status on Saturday, 04-Jan-2025 01:15:07 JST Peter Brett Peter Brett

    Our in-house #Scheme dialect (SKILL++) makes heavy use of Disembodied Property Lists, an archaic feature of ancient Lisps like MacLisp and Franz Lisp.

    They're an interesting data structure: a list-based associative data structure with unique identity and intended for destructive mutation.

    I started drafting an SRFI. But I'm probably going to give up. I can't envision getting corporate VP-level approval for publication, and even if I do, I expect the SRFI commentariat to die laughing.

    In conversation about 5 months ago from mastodon.me.uk permalink
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    Peter Brett (krans@mastodon.me.uk)'s status on Monday, 09-Dec-2024 19:44:30 JST Peter Brett Peter Brett
    in reply to
    • mcc
    • David Chisnall (*Now with 50% more sarcasm!*)

    @mcc Yes, this is very good advice! Also, reading Unicode Technical Reports is a great way to get detailed information about the relevant algorithms and technical best practice needed to put that domain expertise to use. @david_chisnall

    In conversation about 6 months ago from mastodon.me.uk permalink
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    Peter Brett (krans@mastodon.me.uk)'s status on Monday, 09-Dec-2024 19:44:23 JST Peter Brett Peter Brett
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    • mcc
    • David Chisnall (*Now with 50% more sarcasm!*)

    @mcc Hah! #Unicode deals with human language and scripts, which are much more complicated, inconsistent and illogical than reasonably expected; and text handling is not something that seems to be taught anywhere by anyone.

    I guess the conclusion is that software engineers are just expected to learn how to Unicode correctly by collective telepathy? @david_chisnall

    In conversation about 6 months ago from mastodon.me.uk permalink
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    Peter Brett (krans@mastodon.me.uk)'s status on Thursday, 05-Dec-2024 01:26:44 JST Peter Brett Peter Brett
    in reply to
    • Charlie Stross

    @cstross How about “Cosy sci-fi”, a la ‘A Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet’

    In conversation about 6 months ago from mastodon.me.uk permalink
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    Peter Brett (krans@mastodon.me.uk)'s status on Saturday, 09-Nov-2024 08:37:39 JST Peter Brett Peter Brett
    • dave
    • Christine Lemmer-Webber
    • Andrew Whatson

    Hello, fellow #Scheme programmers.

    In which #IRC channels do the RnRS aficionados hang out nowadays?

    @cwebber @flatwhatson @dthompson

    In conversation about 7 months ago from mastodon.me.uk permalink

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    Peter Brett (krans@mastodon.me.uk)'s status on Wednesday, 06-Nov-2024 18:54:08 JST Peter Brett Peter Brett
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    • Glyn Moody

    @glynmoody It is unclear to me how this is better than a train.

    In conversation about 7 months ago from mastodon.me.uk permalink
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