Yeah, I though so too. Like, the antiviruses use actively malicious marketing tactics to scare users into giving up their money, paypal is a piece of shit, and flash was a security nightmare. Jquery is allright. If a website uses it and nothing is actively broken, then there really isn't a reason to replace it.
Thank you for providing a different point of view, I didn't realize things were so complicated in the united states. In the EU there is a system called iDEAL which iirc is maintained by a collaboration of different banks and lets you pay for stuff online instantly and with zero fee. For sending money person-to-person, there are apps like tikkie that are just a thin wrapper around iDEAL. And in cases where these things don't work, you can just do a direct bank transfer by typing in the other person's IBAN in your bank's app/website. Slightly less convenient, but still nearly instant and zero fee.
iDEAL solved it for countries that participate. For countries that don't, sadly there's no good first party solution. Revolut and Transferwise are much better alternatives to paypal tho.
Unicode has free space left for millions or billions of characters.
I might be wrong, but isn't unicode essentially unlimited? Like, they're just assigning numbers (codepoints) to individual characters. Any limitation would come from encodings like utf-8, no?
With all of those obscure characters that they keep on adding, you'd think they'd have the decency to have separate sets for japanese and chinese characters. But nope, those are all lumped together into the CJK Unified Ideographs block. Whether a character shows up chinese-style or japanese-style depends on the font.
Language Model for sure, but "Large" is giving him too much credit. He speaks like a smartphone predictive text keyboard trained on a dataset of elementary school worksheets that somehow got contaminated by posts from /pol/
Yep, exactly. After someone pointed it out on twitter, unicode consortium updated the standard to increase the number of eyes to the correct number (10), but so far I haven't seen a single font that actually implemented the change. At least for me, ꙮ shows up with just seven eyes.
yeah this is probably correct. Back in the day platforms would just tell you outright "you're not allowed to say this" and prevent you from posting, but nowadays posts that violate some unspoken rule just get shadow-removed with no indication of what you did wrong. Reddit, for example, shadow-removes any comment that links to a website ending with .ru and silently blocks any chat message containing the spanish word for "black". Youtube will demote comments and demonetize videos that contain any reference to nazis, even if its from a purely historical perspective. In response to this bullshit, netizens are developing a self-censor habbit to obfuscate anything that looks remotely unmonetizeable. It's like l337sp34k all over again.
I'm thoroughly convinced that the reason women tolerate the flu better than men is that they're simply more used to feeling like shit every once in a while and just putting up with it. If you get periods every month, then feeling a little sick from a cold/sore throat is not a big deal in comparison.
I think it has to do with the age of the target audience? I remember being absolutely terrified and morbidly fascinated by sonic.exe and similar when I was in middle school. What might seem weak/shallow/uncreative to an adult might actually be extremely interesting to someone younger.
Whenever I have to use a cloud storage service for anything, I just add it to rclone. Solves the buggy UI problem pretty well! Dropbox/google drive subscriptions are a total scam, you can just create a new free account when your old one fills up /hj.
Yeah, I though so too. Like, the antiviruses use actively malicious marketing tactics to scare users into giving up their money, paypal is a piece of shit, and flash was a security nightmare. Jquery is allright. If a website uses it and nothing is actively broken, then there really isn't a reason to replace it.