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Posted by todsacerdoti 16 hours ago

What's up with all those equals signs anyway?(lars.ingebrigtsen.no)
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noduerme 14 hours ago|
Great. Can't wait for equal signs to be the next (((whatever this is))). Maybe it's a secret code. j/k

On a side note: There are actually products marketed as kosher bacon (it's usually beef or turkey). And secular Jews frequently make jokes like this about our kosher bros who aren't allowed to eat the real stuff for some dumb reason like it has too many toes.

rsynnott 10 hours ago||
But... pigs _do_ have cloven hooves! The issue is that they're not ruminant.

That said, there is a _possibly_ kosher pig: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babirusa#Relationship_with_hum...

LAC-Tech 6 hours ago||
Great. Can't wait for equal signs to be the next (((whatever this is))). Maybe it's a secret code. j/k

Yeah clearly you guys are the biggest victims in all this... get in there and make it about you!

MarginalGainz 12 hours ago||
"It’s a fascinating case of 'Abstraction Leak'.

We’ve become so accustomed to modern libraries handling encoding transparently that when raw data surfaces (like in these dumps), we often lack the 'Digital Archeology' skills to recognize basic Quoted-Printable.

These artifacts (=20, =3D) are effectively fossils of the transport layer. It’s a stark reminder that underneath our modern AI/React/JSON world, the internet is still largely held together by 7-bit ASCII constraints and protocols from the 1980s.

seydor 15 hours ago||
TLDR "=\r\n" was converted to "=\n"
netsharc 15 hours ago||
Author seems to think Unix uses a character called "NL" instead of "LF"...
debugnik 15 hours ago|||
Unicode labels U+000A as all of "LINE FEED (LF)", "new line (NL)" and "end of line (EOL)". I'm guessing different names were imported from slightly different character sets, although I understand the all-uppercase name to be the main/official one.

https://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U0000.pdf

netsharc 8 hours ago||
Oh okay... for a technical article, referrring to 0A with two different names within the same sentence of each other is not confusing at all... /S

Geezus...

matsemann 15 hours ago||||
NL, or New Line, is a character in some character sets, like old mainframe computers. No need to be snarky just because he mistyped or uses a different name for something.
db_admin 15 hours ago|||
I am more surprised by the description of “rock döts”. A Norwegian certainly knows that ASCII is not enough for all our alphabetical needs.
topaz0 12 hours ago||
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metal_umlaut

The writer presumably knows that umlauts and other non-ascii characters are functional in many languages. "rock döts" is poking fun at the trend in a certain tranche of anglophone rock/metal to use them in a purely aesthetic way in band names etc.

thaumasiotes 14 hours ago||
No, the article is quite explicit that that isn't what happened.
VoodooJuJu 12 hours ago||
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ValveFan6969 11 hours ago||
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brador 14 hours ago||
Could be worsened by inaccurate optical character recognition in some cases.

Back in those days optical scanners were still used.

zabzonk 13 hours ago||
People posting Excel formulae?
ccppurcell 14 hours ago|
Rock dots? You mean diacritics? Yeah someone invented them: the ancient Greeks, idiöt.
RHSeeger 14 hours ago||
It's not the character, its the way / context in which it's used

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metal_umlaut

ccppurcell 13 hours ago||
I know what he was referring to. But the use case is obviously languages other than English, not the Motörhead fan club newsletter.
topaz0 12 hours ago|||
Some combination of people misunderstood some other people's joke, not totally clear which and which.
chr 14 hours ago||
Yeah, that dude oughta read books and learn about computers, too.
gerikson 12 hours ago||
And live in a country where they use these in their alphabets.