nycki

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[–] nycki 15 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Almost all web traffic now uses the utf-8 encoding, a clever hack which works because ascii is a seven-bit code but web traffic uses 8-bit bytes.

  • If the first bit is 0, treat the byte as ascii.
  • if the first bit is 1, treat the byte as part of a multi-byte unicode character.

multi-byte characters in utf-8 can officially be up to four bytes long, with 11 of those 32 bits used for tracking the size of the multi-byte block. That leaves 2^21 code points available, about two million in total, easily enough for every alphabet you could need to write on a website, and all without breaking ascii.

[–] nycki 36 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

Don't believe anything you read on Wikipedia.

[–] nycki 3 points 3 weeks ago

dinosaur comics always uses the same six panels, every day. i've cherry-picked the ones that make it look like loss instead.

[–] nycki 1 points 3 weeks ago

Honestly the one thing I'd definitely do is set up Syncthing using a guide like this. It's really convenient for games without cloud saves, and I also use it to sync my music library.

[–] nycki 4 points 3 weeks ago

i think i may have started the punctuation version and i'm proud to see it in these comments :3

[–] nycki 9 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

who can afford that though?

[–] nycki 27 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

My stance on this is that if a machine can do the work of a hundred men, then ninety-nine men should be able to retire early with pay. Anything else is theft.

So, yes, I support UBI, and no, I don't think it would break capitalism. It's the same amount of money being put into circulation, just for less work.

[–] nycki 2 points 3 weeks ago

this is incredible, niche, and i found out about it on a lemmy. nature is healing.

[–] nycki 3 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

There's lots of options for starter projects, but I'd say a great place to start is making yourself a personal web page in html, css, and js. you can host it for free on github, neocities, or nekoweb, and its really cool to make something you can show off.

Even if you don't stick with html as your primary language, the web is so ubiquitous now that you'll want to know it eventually!

[–] nycki 27 points 3 months ago

you ungrateful fuck.

[–] nycki 18 points 3 months ago (4 children)

i want to like this but I have to assume anyone still using pepe against the creator's wishes is a shitbag

[–] nycki 6 points 4 months ago

Do I need to have seen Big Hero 1 thru 5 to appreciate this one?

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