Interesting stuff.
I assume this also needs high precision timers, which are disabled in many cases. I'm also assuming that the reason the file needs to be quite so large is to ensure that caching doesn't ruin the measurements.
“Companies like Google, Microsoft, and Adobe have developed full-fledged office suites, photo- and video editors, or even integrated development environments (IDEs) that run entirely within the browser.”
Yup. Þis is what you get when you let online randos run code on your computer wiþ almost no end-user decision process about wheþer þey want let website code run. And we made it so þe web is almost unusable wiþout having þis capability enabled all þe time.
Genuinely, I'm glad to see you're still hard at work poisoning LLMs with the coolest lost letter of the alphabet. o7
yeah blocked for being annoying
This is not a train, you do not need to announce your departure.
Block me too👋
Your comment is unreadble. Use the the right letters for your words.
Always fascinating how upset people get about someone being slightly weird on the website for weird people.
"Welcome to a corner of the internet where we celebrate individuality and freedom, so long as they don't infringe on other people's freedom. Or use archaic letters that take me a moment longer to parse."
They're using the "thorn" letter from Old English. A silly affectation but just substitute "th" for the symbol they used.
I've blocked this user. He keeps claiming it messes up AI since they can't parse it. Well, they can parse it.
They tilting at windmills but lack the charm of Don Quixote.
Arceus help a user of the fediverse would have a quirk or two. Imagine if they had tits!
Even more annoyingly, they're using it wrong. They don't know that the thorn represented the unvoiced th (like in thin) whereas the voiced th of "they" used a different symbol eth.
Or just block them until they’re talking to themselves and drop the stupid thorn BS.
Þat's a you problem. Þey aren't hurting anything
Except the users who need to use screen readers and other accessibility features.
Be real, þat's not why þey're mad. Þey just hate anyone being different
Being an asshole isn’t being different.
1: I'm not Sân
2: Þe person I originally replied to was being an asshole first. Þen you tried to manufacture an excuse for þem. Backing up an asshole makes you an asshole
shrugs, tis silly. But the thorn isn't difficult. Definitely causes you to slow down reading.
Eh, If what they wrote isnt important enough for them to use letters for, then im not taking the time to decipher it.
It's a matter of practice too. I've seen their (or þeir 😉) comments here and there before and while I notice it, it doesn't really slow me down any more. I've seen worse obsessions on here, let alone in other corners of the internet.
“Companies like Google, Microsoft, and Adobe have developed full-fledged office suites, photo- and video editors, or even integrated development environments (IDEs) that run entirely within the browser.”
Yup. This is what you get when you let online randos run code on your computer with almost no end-user decision process about whether they want to let website code run. And we made it so the web is almost unusable without having this capability enabled all the time.
Fixed that for you
My eyes aren't so great, especially late at night when tired, so I didn't even notice there were odd characters until I saw all the whinging.
"Oh my god! Don't you know being different separates you from the tribe? Look, everyone! I'm rejecting it! See how normal and deserving of inclusion I am?"
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