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  • Me neither. Apparently, some schools teach this, but most only learn this in college.

    Which is why the culture war so often involves College educated van non-College educated.

    I’m on the College side of the culture war, but we must kind of acknowledge the truth that we had extra education that the other side did not.

    Some of them might resent us for it, some of us might be snobby about it.

    But at root, that’s where the culture disparity stems from.




  • Also, on Reddit when you post a comment that gets even a little bit popular and visible, you always get some asshole who misrepresents your point and wants to pick a virtual fight.

    I never know when to engage or ignore.

    In any case, it’s never satisfying. Ignore and you feel bad. Engage and you feel bad.

    Lemmy is nicer. Way less assholes.






  • Indeed.

    Which is why most people have an innate distrust and disgust of grifters.

    I would even argue that our very deep disgust against grifters is the legitimate base emotion on which xenophobia is built and therefore xenophobia will always be with us and must always be actively unlearned.

    (Racism, in contrast, is learned and can be eradicated by stopping it’s spread)


  • It goes way, way deeper.

    It’s the tit-for-tat strategy that is applicable in a very wide range of situations. And animals follow it too. It is deeply ingrained in our biology.

    1. first time you interact with a new person, you assume they are following the same strategy, so you cooperate.

    2. if they don’t, then next time, you don’t either. But if they do, then you both continue cooperating until someone breaks the chain of trust.

    3. Once broken, the guilty party must make amends to restart.

    4. If broken, but neither party acknowledges guilt, a restart can be tried, but it will always be difficult due to distrust. So it works better if one party takes the blame, makes amends and restarts. (this is called ‘being the bigger person’).


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    It’s a joke.

    UTF-16 already exists, which doesn’t favor Roman characters as much, but UTF-8 is more popular because it is backword compatible with the legacy ASCII.

    UTF-32 also exists which has exactly equal length representation for every character.

    But the thing that equalizes languages is compression.

    Yes, a text written in Cyrillic with UTF-8 will take more space than a Roman language, easily double. However this extra space is much more easily compressed by an algorithm like GZIP.

    So after compression, the two compressed texts will then be similarly sized and much smaller than UTF-16 or UTF-32.