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ToaKraka
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Transnational culture war: For at least a decade, Chinese-speaking people who identify as "nonbinary" or "agender" have been using "X也" and "TA" as makeshift gender-neutral pronouns, replacing the original default "他" ("人" = "human", nowadays interpreted as "male" in this context) and the female-specific "她" ("女" = "female") that was invented only a hundred years ago as a result of contact with the West. Now (actually, back in September), activists have successfully gotten Unicode to codify a new hanzi for this purpose—a combined version of "㐅也". (At the time of writing, the actual character won't show up on your screen properly since it hasn't yet been added to the fonts on your computer, but it is "".) The parallel to Western neopronouns like "ze" is obvious.
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Kiwi Farms compilation of background information, including technical discussion of weird multi-script characters like "X也" and "⼴K" "⼴O"
Characters that combine Han components with Latin, kana, or other scripts challenge the fundamental definition of what counts as a “Hanzi”. China has repeatedly emphasized this point: while such hybrids may function as ideographs in practice, they exceed the established understanding and technical definition of Han characters. Including them indiscriminately in the CJK Unified Ideographs (CJKUI) would blur the line between alphabetic scripts and Han, undermining both sinological theory and practical assumptions in computing.
The discussion of script-hybrid characters highlights both the practical needs of users and the importance of maintaining a clear scope for CJK Unified Ideographs. These characters do exist, but their inclusion within CJKUI raises unresolved questions of definition, procedure, and implementation.
Creating a separate block is the most balanced and forward-looking solution. It allows these forms to be encoded without altering the Han-only scope of CJKUI and gives space for tailored procedures to be developed.
Leaving hybrid code points unmapped in GB 18030 [the PRC's separate copy of Unicode] could serve as a pragmatic fallback if hybrids are nevertheless placed in CJK extensions. This would keep China’s implementation consistent.
Two new entries in Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Names incoming:
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People's names are written in any single script.
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Okay, fine, a person's name may contain characters from multiple scripts, but surely no single character in any person's name contains multiple scripts within itself.
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Associated Press says:
It wasn’t known why Israel made the declaration Friday or whether the country was expecting something in return.
Earlier this year, U.S. and Israeli officials told The Associated Press that Israel had approached Somaliland about taking in Palestinians from Gaza as part of U.S. President Donald Trump’s plan at the time to resettle the territory’s population. The United States has since abandoned that plan.
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Mottizan
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Mottizan = TheMotte partisan = bad
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Mottizen = TheMotte denizen = neutral
Subject matter experts can write the best ‘depth’ posts by simple virtue of being able to contribute more (and more interesting) knowledge on the (interesting) topic of interest than the layman audience. People know the most about things that they have to know about because it is part of their job, or they love to learn about because it is their passion. Let us call these wonks and nerds, and celebrate both because of what they can bring to any topic.
I will reiterate what I said a while ago:
More people need to make lengthy posts about their cool jobs in the vein of my previous posts! I've been waiting with bated breath for the past
<ins>three</ins>year<ins>s</ins>to hear about the dreaded "scrum master", "daily stand-up", and "Git merge conflict" from some of the 10× programmers that supposedly frequent this website. Maybe we even have an architect who can complain about his clients' wishy-washiness and scoff at all the pathetic free (libre) attempts to compete with Chief Architect, or a paving contractor who can express his hatred of his local transportation authority's resident engineers and in-house designers in the strongest of terms.
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2d ago
See also this map I made a while ago.
Somaliland has finally been officially recognized as an independent country (by Israel).
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A ski resort has been in operation since year 1969. It includes a mountain face that bears not only several ski slopes, but also part of a gravel municipal road that runs across the slopes. The resort has with the municipality an agreement providing that, during the ski season (from November 15 to April 1), the municipality will close the part of the road that intersects the resort.
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In year 2008, a person buys a large lot on the gravel road, adjacent to the resort, but still accessible by car during ski season if you drive on the part of the road that does not intersect the resort. He builds a vacation home, and subdivides the land into several lots, which he intends to market as "ski-in, ski-out" properties. In 2013, he tries to sell the house, but receives no offers. In 2014, he asks the resort about developing an alternative road leading through the resort to his properties, but the resort is not interested.
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In 2015, the person sues the resort and the municipality to force them to keep the intersecting portion of the road open during the ski season. This would close the intersecting ski slopes (which seem to constitute around one-third of the resort), and might force the ski resort to cease operations entirely. The judicial proceedings end in 2022, with the intersecting portion of the road "vacated" by the municipality and ceded to the resort.
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In 2021, the ski resort sues the person, alleging that his previous lawsuit was an abuse of judicial process intended to pressure the resort into developing the aforementioned alternative road. The trial judge grants summary judgment regarding liability, since the person literally admitted this under oath during the previous lawsuit. A jury grants damages of 600 k$ (400 compensatory and 200 punitive). In 2025, the appeals panel affirms.
In 1888, Chief Justice Bleckley of the Supreme Court of Georgia authored a famed two-sentence opinion (Pacetti v. State, 7 S.E. 867, 868 (Ga. 1888)):
A social, genial gentleman, fond of company and a glass, by occupation a cigar-maker, who keeps his sleeping apartment with the doors "blanketed", in a fit condition for privately gaming therein, and who invites his friends at night to refresh themselves with beer, but has in the room, besides barrels and bottles, a table suitable for gaming, together with 11 packs of cards, and 2 boxes of "chips", one containing 80 chips and the other 300, and a memorandum book with names and numbers entered in it, and whose guests, or some of them, retire hurriedly under the bed on being surprised by a visit from the police at 1 o'clock in the morning, may or may not be guilty of the offense of keeping a gaming-house. A verdict of guilty, based on these and other inculpatory facts, such as the rattle of chips and money, and some expressions about $7 and $12, heard by the police on approaching the premises, is warranted by the evidence, and is not contrary to law.
How would you rewrite these "two sentences"?
A social, genial gentleman—fond of company and a glass, and by occupation a cigar-maker—(1) who keeps his sleeping apartment with the doors "blanketed" (in a fit condition for privately gaming therein), and (2) who invites his friends at night to refresh themselves with beer, but has in the room (besides barrels and bottles) a table suitable for gaming, together with 11 packs of cards, 2 boxes of "chips" (one containing 80 chips and the other 300), and a memorandum book with names and numbers entered in it, and (3) whose guests (or some of them) retire hurriedly under the bed on being surprised by a visit from the police at 1 o'clock in the morning, may or may not be guilty of the offense of keeping a gaming-house. However, a verdict of guilty, based on these and other inculpatory facts (such as the rattle of chips and money, and some expressions about $7 and $12, heard by the police on approaching the premises), is warranted by the evidence, and is not contrary to law.
The defendant-appellant in this case is a social, genial gentleman, fond of company and a glass, and by occupation a cigar-maker. He kept his sleeping apartment with the doors "blanketed", in a fit condition for privately gaming therein. He invited his friends at night to refresh themselves with beer, but had in the room (besides barrels and bottles) a table suitable for gaming, together with 11 packs of cards, 2 boxes of "chips" (one containing 80 chips and the other 300), and a memorandum book with names and numbers entered in it. His guests (or some of them) retired hurriedly under the bed on being surprised by a visit from the police at 1 o'clock in the morning. This man may or may not be guilty of the offense of keeping a gaming-house. However, a verdict of guilty, based on these and other inculpatory facts (such as the rattle of chips and money, and some expressions about $7 and $12, heard by the police on approaching the premises), is warranted by the evidence, and is not contrary to law.
Survey: The proportion of USAians who "display decorations with a religious meaning, such as a Nativity scene", for Christmas is 54 percent, down from 68 percent in 2010. Presumably, this number can be taken as an indicator of how many people consider Christmas a religious holiday as opposed to a secular one.
Actual numbers:
| Phone | Diagonal size (inches) of screen | …of phone | Weight (oz) |
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| Google Pixel 1 | 5.0 | 6.3 | 5.0 |
| Google Pixel 4 | 5.7 | 6.4 | 5.7 |
| Google Pixel 10 Pro | 6.3 | 6.7 | 7.3 |
| Unihertz Jelly Max | 5.0 | 5.6 | 6.3 |
ToaKraka
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5d ago
I believe
The investment objective of CPER is for the daily changes in percentage terms of its shares’ per share NAV to reflect the daily changes in percentage terms of the SummerHaven Copper Index Total Return (the “SCI”), less CPER’s expenses.
The overall return on the SCI is generated by two components: (i) uncollateralized returns from the Benchmark Component Copper Futures Contracts comprising the SCI, and (ii) a daily fixed income return reflecting the interest earned on hypothetical 3-month Treasuries, calculated using the weekly auction rate for 3-Month Treasuries published by the U.S. Department of the Treasury. SHIM is the owner of the SCI.
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It's maybe half a joke. It's far from impossible that the next version of Unicode will add the "⼴K" character, and then somebody in the PRC or in Japan will try to register that as the name of his child.
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