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Announcing The Unicode® Standard, Version 13.0:
Version 13.0 of the Unicode Standard is now available, including the core specification, annexes, and data files. This version adds 5,390 characters, for a total of 143,859 characters. These additions include four new scripts, for a total of 154 scripts, as well as 55 new emoji characters.
The new scripts and characters in Version 13.0 add support for modern language groups in Africa, Pakistan, South Asia, and China:
[...] Support for scholarly work was extended worldwide, including:
[...] Popular symbol additions include:
[...] Important chart font updates, including:
[...] Additional support for lesser-used languages and scholarly work was extended, including:
When will the first, all-emoji story or comment appear on SoylentNews? What are people going to do if they use text-only browsers or are visually-impaired?
(Score: 2, Interesting) by Ethanol-fueled on Sunday March 29 2020, @06:24AM (5 children)
There are two classes of problems, getting shit done and fiddling.
Fiddling is why you have to write pages of Python code to make the text the Twitter API returns neatly jibe with your code, or why there's no function for a particular binary operation so you have to convert it into a string before fucking with it. Fiddling is why your fairly-straightforward new system build takes 4 hours. Fiddling was getting a Linux system up and running before 2010, period. Fiddling is dealing with a class of tedious but quirky problems that some other son of a bitch should have figured out and, more importantly, shared the solution to already.
(Score: 2) by crafoo on Sunday March 29 2020, @02:07PM (4 children)
Fiddling is also .. when I read your post, then start reading about unary and binary logical operations, then end up watching a 1:50 video covering axiomatic logic, propositional and predicate logic and it's use in mathematical proofs. Also how one of the 16 binary logical operators has a long standing mathematical feud over it's accepted logic table.
Wasn't doing much this morning anyway.
(Score: 2) by Farkus888 on Sunday March 29 2020, @02:38PM (3 children)
It has been a long time since I read a comment I wanted to know more about so much. Links, please? I am also bored and curious.
(Score: 1) by Ethanol-fueled on Sunday March 29 2020, @05:33PM (1 child)
Pirate a discrete math textbook and read the first few chapters of it. Truth tables are tedious as fuck but then you get into predicate logic and that's kinda counterintuitive. Then do Set theory and then see how it neatly applies to combinatorics. Then if you really want a kick in the dick, keep on reading to those page-long proofs that prove the sum of two integers is an integer, or if you're an especially sick puppy, Stirling numbers of the second kind by hand.
(Score: 2) by crafoo on Sunday March 29 2020, @11:10PM
I might just do that. A textbook would be handy. I've just been watching pieces of this video series building up the math necessary for modern physics. How I got there was confusing but fun.
(Score: 2) by crafoo on Sunday March 29 2020, @11:19PM
https://youtu.be/V49i_LM8B0E [youtu.be]
that's the first video in the series I ended up on.