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[jedidia]

I seem to have been missing important bits of this conversation :lol:

 

[Fabri91]

I seem to have been missing important bits of this conversation :lol:

You're not the only one :hide:

 

[Face]

I seem to have been missing important bits of this conversation :lol:

You're not the only one :hide:

What conversation are you talking about?

 

[jedidia]

The one between you and n122vu of course.

 

[Face]

The one between you and n122vu of course.

There was no conversation. Nothing to see here. Move along.

 

[Frilock]

Anyone notice anything a little off about this article?

 

[SolarLiner]

Anyone notice anything a little off about this article?

I'd all be up for IRL Kerbal rocket assemblies! Except the part where they blow up in the sky, please :hide:

 

[Notebook]

Anyone notice anything a little off about this article?

Daily Mail, not renowned for science coverage...or politics for that matter.

N.

 

[TMac3000]

:blink:
What happened to your user label color? Tired of bold green?

Nevermind.

I'm betting that donations to O-F are no longer deductible in Germany

 

[Andy44]

Well, now I feel stupid. And contagious.

Here we are now, entertain us.

 

[jedidia]

Interesting thing about the current steam sale: Morrowind is more expensive than Skyrim :lol:

 

[orb]

Well, Skyrim alone is cheaper than Morrowind with all expansions, but Skyrim with all expansions (Legendary) even at -75% off is still more expensive than Morrowind (with all expansions) at -66% off.

 

[Thunder Chicken]

A mulatto, an albino, a mosquito, my libido

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We lost power today - 9 inches of sticky, heavy snow that brought down a lot of power lines and trees.

With the lights out, it's less dangerous

 

[Linguofreak]

The Unicode Consortium's misguided idea that one can never have too many codepoints is utter bullU+1F4A9.

 

[mojoey]

[9:13:20 PM] JUST KAZOO: I'm fine
[9:13:21 PM] JUST KAZOO: I am
[9:13:31 PM] JUST KAZOO: I just want a stiff drink or three
[9:13:42 PM] Nein Iron: gotta drink the pain away
[9:13:50 PM] JUST KAZOO: I'm irish
[9:13:53 PM] JUST KAZOO: It's what we do

Keeping the Old Country traditions alive

 

[jedidia]

The Unicode Consortium's misguided idea that one can never have too many codepoints is utter bullU+1F4A9.

What on earth am I looking at here? :blink:

 

[Linguofreak]

What on earth am I looking at here? :blink:

The Unicode codepoint that is one too many. That link is to the official Unicode website, and gives the actual official name for that codepoint.

That's right. An organization that publishes an important technical standard for text encoding has allocated a codepoint to a character called "Pile of poo", and said character is actually supposed to be a graphical representation of a pile of poo. If you create a file with Unicode codepoint U+1F4A9 in the file name, and have fonts that include the relevant Unicode block, you will see an icon of a little pile of dung as part of the name of that file. It works, at least, on Ubuntu 14.04.

The Unicode consortium has waaaaaaay too much time on their hands, and, evidently left too much room for expansion in Unicode. :lol:

EDIT: The way I discovered this was highly entertaining. A friend works at a hosting provider, and they'd had a group of servers stop responding to their management software. The servers were still up, but couldn't be managed. They found the management software was choking on something in their database, and figured out that it was the name of one of the VMs. After slogging through the database, they found the responsible VM name, which was U+1F4A9 repeated 5 or 6 times. Seeing the VM name without previously being aware of the existence of the character was quite a surreal moment. "That's in Unicode???!!!"

 

[RisingFury]

you will see an icon of a little pile of dung as part of the name of that file. It works, at least, on Ubuntu 14.04.

Somehow fitting to stick Linux together with a pile of poo. :lol:

 

[Thunder Chicken]

Anyone notice anything a little off about this article?

The evolution of US launch capability:

Small, Medium/Intermediate, Heavy, Super Heavy, Kerbal. :lol: Love it!

 

[Andy44]

This is something I've always found curious given the mix of Americans and Brits on this board (as well as people who learned English American or British style):

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And oh boy it gets worse when we consider this, which makes me wonder how many unknown misunderstandings have been had on OF over the years:

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-52AI_ojyQ"]How big is a billion? - Numberphile - YouTube[/ame]