UmbralRaptor changed the topic of #kspacademia to: https://gist.github.com/pdn4kd/164b9b85435d87afbec0c3a7e69d3e6d | Dogs are cats. Spiders are cat interferometers. | Космизм сегодня! | Document well, for tomorrow you may get mauled by a ネコバス. | <UmbralRaptor> … one of the other grad students just compared me to nomal O_o | <ferram4> I shall beat my problems to death with an engineer.
<bofh> Ahh.
* egg|zzz|egg comes back to the conclusion that all IRC clients suck
<bofh> egg|zzz|egg: you're not wrong
<egg|zzz|egg> (especially from the nontrivial input method point of view, e.g., dead keys on windows)
<egg|zzz|egg> (also hexchat manages to screw with copy-paste)
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<egg|zzz|egg> (but it least it has font fallback)
<egg|zzz|egg> (but it interacts in awful ways with selection)
<egg|zzz|egg> (and let's not talk about its bidi support)
<soundnfury> egg|zzz|egg: IRC clients shouldn't be _involved_ in input methods, or fonts, because they should run in _terminals_
<soundnfury> (although yes, if your terminal supports bidi text, my client won't understand such things and will probably get confused)
<egg|zzz|egg> (let's not get to the bidi support in terminals either, it's a silly place)
<soundnfury> !wpn egg|zzz|egg
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* egg|zzz|egg laughs a lot
<egg|zzz|egg> (ok that's an absurdly obscure joke)
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<egg|zzz|egg> (and Ribaucour [ʁibokuʁ] sounding like rit beaucoup [ʁiboku])
<egg|zzz|egg> Fiora: https://twitter.com/FioraAeterna/status/918943706937298945 is currently Nice
<kmath> <FioraAeterna> who the heck called it "replacing all existing computer arithmetic with a single universal number format" and not "e pluribus unum"
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<awang> More images of my ballistic lunar transfer, now including the earth-centered sun aligned frame of reference:
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<UmbralRaptor> Also, from before, I forgot about LADEE.
<UmbralRaptor> Published in NRA letters https://twitter.com/diodebot/status/919003206566449152
<kmath> <diodebot> Browning peer-reviewed diode
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<soundnfury> UmbralRaptor: is this diode chambered in .303 British?
<soundnfury> does it produce a lot of shot noise?
<bofh> LOL
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<UmbralRaptor> soundnfury: …are you firing it stochasticly?
<UmbralRaptor> bofh: today in evergreen tweets: https://twitter.com/AthertonKD/status/837776401751105536
<kmath> <AthertonKD> The premise was cruelty. The ideology is cruelty. The big philosophical underpinning is cruelty. The policy is cruelty. The point is cruelty
<soundnfury> UmbralRaptor: …so long as my muzzle discipline is fine, does that matter?
<UmbralRaptor> Well, yes. But I was trying to so something with the pun?
<soundnfury> yeah, it was good enough.
<soundnfury> I just wanted to try and keep it going
<soundnfury> !wpn UmbralRaptor
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<bofh> UmbralRaptor: :/
<bofh> UmbralRaptor: sadly, far more evergreen than it should be.
<UmbralRaptor> soundnfury: Some restrictions apply. Life not available on all bases.
<UmbralRaptor> bofh: Yep =\
<bofh> https://mobile.twitter.com/mbell_gb/status/918827234655391745 hey eduroam's mostly worked well for me!
<kmath> https://twitter.com/mbell_gb/status/918827234655391745 <mbell_gb> Are you eduroam because we're not connecting
<UmbralRaptor> It somewhat works.
<UmbralRaptor> For reasons that aren't clear, my phone fairly often falls off of it and GMU's main network.
<UmbralRaptor> Also, I randomly lost access for a few hours at a time at University of Maryland.
* UmbralRaptor pokes MSU and UMKC for never providing credentials. Especially with how under provisioned UMKC's main network was.
<UmbralRaptor> Са́харов Free Diode https://twitter.com/diodebot/status/919038873992392704
<kmath> <diodebot> Ulam proprietary diode
<UmbralRaptor> Good feature of Oreo: my Twitter display name is no longer half tofu.
<UmbralRaptor> THE EGYPTIAN-AKKADIAN CURSE HAS BEEN LIFTED FROM THE BLACK SLABS!!!
<UmbralRaptor> !u ?
<Qboid> U+1F728 ALCHEMICAL SYMBOL FOR VERDIGRIS (?)
<UmbralRaptor> ^also no longer tofu.
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<Ellied> tofu for me. I dun geddit, I have Noto installed.
<Ellied> bofh: I use eduroam as my main network when available, despite both universities I've recently attended making a particular remark in their policy that eduroam is NOT to be used by local students while on campus (???)
<FluffyFoxeh> what is it for then
<FluffyFoxeh> use when you go to another university campus? why would I ever do that :)
<FluffyFoxeh> well I guess there are two universities in my city so it's not totally inconceivable
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* egg|zzz|egg just crashed visual studio by pasting 陈景润 ??? Ꙩ_ꙩ
<egg|zzz|egg> welp this time it worked
<kmath> <chaeronaea> please view this wholesome cartoon that i am currently obsessed with https://t.co/ii88bPTT5d
<egg|zzz|egg> !wpn whitequark
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<egg|zzz|egg> !wpn котя
* Qboid gives котя a lutenium nephroid
<egg|zzz|egg> !wpn порошок ?: эта хуйня
* Qboid gives порошок ?: эта хуйня a modular isochoric Kusanagi
<egg|zzz|egg> whitequark: is the house haunted by static electricity
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<egg|zzz|egg> finally got around to reading this, it is good https://twitter.com/whitequark/status/918707749134802945
<kmath> <whitequark> I don't know who showed me this wonderful story about Sumerian, academia, and love, but it's wonderful https://t.co/EK252iMGO0
<egg|zzz|egg> ?
<egg|zzz|egg> featuring ?????
<egg|zzz|egg> or is it spelled ????? I'm confused
<egg|zzz|egg> wait that has determinative md, so ??????
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<whitequark> egg|zzz|egg: have you ever seen a scared cat
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<egg|zzz|egg> !csharp -1.07365920000000000e+09 / -1.07365919999999988e+09
<Qboid> 1
<egg|zzz|egg> !csharp -1.07365920000000000e+09 / -1.07365919999999988e+09 - 1
<Qboid> 2.22044604925031E-16
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<egg|zzz|egg> !wpn whitequark
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<egg|zzz|egg> awang's transfer trajectory is nice https://imgur.com/a/MjQAN
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<egg|zzz|egg> ??
<bofh> egg|zzz|egg: that's a nice transfer orbit, yep
<Ellied> my toughbook's RS232 interface supports a minimum baud rate of 2, apparently.
<Iskierka> and what second interface do you jave to verify that?
<egg|zzz|egg> bofh: blarg I'm confused, the chunk of the chronicles of early kings here uses the sumerogram for bani in enlil-bani, but those etcsl texts are transcribed as ba-ni https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erra-imitti ?
* egg|zzz|egg can't find any actual drawings of the relevant tablets >_<
<bofh> egg|zzz|egg: sec, let me ask someone I know that actually researches Akkadian
<bofh> Iskierka: I'm pretty sure that for a baudrate of 2, you could verify that with a voltmeter and pencil/paper.
<egg|zzz|egg> bofh: oh, you know people who do that, nice :-)
<UmbralRaptor> Ellied: At the risk of being a stereotype, install unifont?
<egg|zzz|egg> bofh: do you think we can lure them in here with ??pics
<UmbralRaptor> !u ??
<Qboid> U+12293 CUNEIFORM SIGN SA (?)
<Qboid> U+12000 CUNEIFORM SIGN A (?)
<UmbralRaptor> SA-A = cat?
<bofh> that reminds me, I need to render NotoSansCuneiform to a bitmap and put the BDF of it somewhere.
<bofh> ugh does that mean I need to load FontForge :(
<bofh> I swear I've acquired a conditioned aversion to fontforge at this point.
<egg|zzz|egg> (SA somehow looks very different in noto and on that site, but that's kind of a regular issue)
<UmbralRaptor> egg|zzz|egg: can confirm, my phone shows very different characters.
<UmbralRaptor> Well, the second one is the same,
<bofh> egg|zzz|egg: know any other good Cuneiform fonts? I only know of Noto and the George Doulos cuneiform font (I forget the name offhand)
<bofh> it could be b/c Noto is the early Sumerian forms and that site is using Akkadian, I know I've had people bitch to me about how there's no good Akkadian cuneiform font out there.
<egg|zzz|egg> bofh: yeah, afaict all the fonts are for early/monumental inscriptions and you're screwed if you want to write akkadian (or hittite or whatever)
<Iskierka> cuneiform seems really inefficient
<bofh> egg|zzz|egg: well okay if you want to write Hittite you have more than two problems
<bofh> egg|zzz|egg: to paraphrase Jay-Z
<egg|zzz|egg> bofh: ?
<bofh> Hittite cuneiform is apparently an utter unholy mess.
<bofh> that makes negative sense as a writing system
<bofh> (again - I'm sketchy on the exact details, but apparently it's orders of magnitude worse than Sumerograms are)
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<UmbralRaptor> bofh: negative sense as in worse than Tangut?
<bofh> first off, forgot NickServ is a thing I should identify to.
<bofh> secondly, hm. that's a tough question to answer.
<egg|zzz|egg> UmbralRaptor: yeah, apparently A stayed the same
<egg|zzz|egg> large wet cat
<bofh> Ophelia's now Cat3, what even is Hurricane Season 2017
<egg|zzz|egg> Ꙩ_ꙩ
<egg|zzz|egg> !seen pizzaoverhead
<Qboid> egg|zzz|egg: I haven't seen the user pizzaoverhead yet.
<UmbralRaptor> Is Ophelia going to hit Ireland as a cat 3? o_O
<egg|zzz|egg> bofh: haven't personally investigated much, but http://users.teilar.gr/~g1951d/ and http://mnamon.sns.it/index.php?id=39&lang=en&page=Risorse#Fonts seem to have multiple options
<Ellied> Iskierka: an LED and a resistor :D
<egg|zzz|egg> Iskierka: why?
<egg|zzz|egg> (replying to
<egg|zzz|egg> <Iskierka> cuneiform seems really inefficient)
<Iskierka> <Qboid> U+12293 CUNEIFORM SIGN SA (?) so many lines for one syllable
<egg|zzz|egg> Iskierka: but it's a sumerogram mess, those two signs are pronounced šurānu
<egg|zzz|egg> Iskierka: also seems to be just 8 lines for the whole word in Akkadian: http://www.assyrianlanguages.org/akkadian/dosearch.php?searchkey=%C5%A1ur%C4%81nu&language=rawakkadian
<egg|zzz|egg> compare with the 15 strokes of 貓 and the 11 strokes of 猫
<egg|zzz|egg> "O cow, like a cat you walk behind the man carrying the food basket."
<egg|zzz|egg> whitequark: UmbralRaptor: Iskierka: bofh: change log for the coming release fyi https://github.com/mockingbirdnest/Principia/wiki/Change-Log#chasles
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<bofh> LOL at the cow quote
<UmbralRaptor> egg|nomz|egg: I have questions about the cats in that quote.
<egg|nomz|egg> UmbralRaptor: bofh: from http://etcsl.orinst.ox.ac.uk/proverbs/t.6.1.05.html
<bofh> egg|nomz|egg: LOL
<UmbralRaptor> egg|nomz|egg: Now we need an excuse for that to be in the release notes?
<UmbralRaptor> (In the original Sumerian)
<egg|nomz|egg> UmbralRaptor: bofh: I find those proverbs rather abstruse tbh
<hattivat> they seem strongly dung-centric, but I guess it's expected of an early-stage civilization
<Qboid> hattivat: egg|afk|egg left a message for you in #kspacademia [11.10.2017 07:51:13]: "https://twitter.com/___dimsum/status/917446109189906435"
<kmath> <___dimsum> this is so specific and i love it https://t.co/E1A4LRMZhE
<egg|nomz|egg> hattivat!
<hattivat> egg! :]
<egg|nomz|egg> hattivat: we were pondering how to find drawings/photographs of these cuneiform texts rather than transliterations, any idea?
<hattivat> I figured I finally have some free time, so where better to spend it than here
<egg|nomz|egg> :D
<egg|nomz|egg> hattivat: eggsactly, since we have ??pics
<hattivat> with the first thing I saw after arriving back being Sumerian proverbs, I think that was the right choice to make ;d
<hattivat> egg|nomz|egg: hmm, I'll check my bookmarks, I has a 'Sumaerian phase' once
<hattivat> on this topic, I assume you guys are familiar with the awesome Irving Finkel?
* egg|nomz|egg is not
<hattivat> that mem about Polish is so true it hurts
<hattivat> s/mem/meme
<Qboid> hattivat meant to say: that meme about Polish is so true it hurts
<egg|nomz|egg> hattivat: also apparently bofh knows someone who researches akkadian, maybe we can lure them in with ??
<kmath> <ObservatoryCats> #ArchaeoCats Halaf period ceramic analysis time! Tea & Turkish coffee, check. Scales & motif charts, check. Kelebek… https://t.co/JzbqlxpGzI
<hattivat> you could even add a second panel where the guy, after having already chosen the Latin alphabet, abandons the rational Southwestern-Slavic system (č, š, etc.) in favor of a nonsense amount of made-up digraphs
<hattivat> egg|nomz|egg: that's cool
<hattivat> also, Finkel, give me a second
<hattivat> so first of all:
<kmath> YouTube - Tom Scott vs Irving Finkel: The Royal Game of Ur | PLAYTHROUGH | International Tabletop Day 2017
<kmath> YouTube - Irving Finkel | The Ark Before Noah: A Great Adventure
<kmath> <ObservatoryCats> #ArchaeoCats Little Bougainvillea (later renamed Dali by her kind US embassy adopters!) came to us running from a p… https://t.co/EM7kdF2xEX
<hattivat> after these two you should already be searching for more videos of him on your own, without any further prodding from me
<kmath> <YBeletsky> Unexpected #visitor at #night - a small a cute #owl just landed next to our camera under the #Moon at… https://t.co/VknMFuOmnd
<bofh> hattivat: I mean Czech even has ř but no, Polish has to go with rz. Which collapses to the same sound as ż, I suppose b/c a zz digraph would be too nonsensical. But then why not do like, ṡ and ċ? ffs, Polish.
<hattivat> bofh: yeah, exactly
<bofh> hattivat: the Polish alphabet just makes no goddamn sense, tbh.
<hattivat> well, it makes more sense than English, at least ;d
<hattivat> and French, too
<hattivat> but yeah, in comparison to most Latin-writing languages, it's a mess
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<hattivat> egg|nomz|egg: regarding, tablets I think your best bet is http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/search.aspx?searchText=cuneiform
<hattivat> but it's mostly just pictures with no translation or commentary
<hattivat> the second best place, and the best place in general, I think, is http://etana.org/home but you probably already know that one
<hattivat> actually scratch that, ETANA has more pictures than I remembered
<hattivat> so go with ETANA and it's ABZU
<hattivat> or just start with "core texts", the website allows for empty searches to list all contents
<hattivat> their homepagi is https://cdli.ucla.edu/
<hattivat> their "collections" section is also nice, e.g. https://cdli.ucla.edu/collections/bm/bm.html
<hattivat> there is of course also sumerian.org and it's rather impressive list of links http://www.sumerian.org/sumlinks.htm
<hattivat> it also has a interesting (although of course I'm not qualified to judge it) hypothesis on how Sumerian gradually arose from simpler to more complex words
<hattivat> and a lexicon with words grouped according to this view
<egg|nomz|egg> >_< cldi reminds me of cldr
<egg|nomz|egg> !acr -add:CLDI Cuneiform Digital Library Institute
<Qboid> egg|nomz|egg: I added the explanation for this acronym.
<hattivat> well, internet 1.0, man
<hattivat> at least it has useful information, and a lot of it, unlike most of these new-fangled websites
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<APlayer> Hi!
<hattivat> hi
<hattivat> egg|nomz|egg: So, how do you find mister Finkel? Personally, from what I have seen on youtube, he might well be my favorite human alive
<egg|nomz|egg> bofh: whitequark: so, with the help of hattivat's link, we can see that ba-ni is indeed written with the syllabary, so the name is ?????, and further that noto has the right glyphs for that period, see https://cdli.ucla.edu/search/archival_view.php?ObjectID=P360975 https://cdli.ucla.edu/search/archival_view.php?ObjectID=P351571
<egg|nomz|egg> whitequark: thanks for the nerd-sniping
<egg|nomz|egg> hattivat: context, this was prompted by https://twitter.com/whitequark/status/918707749134802945
<kmath> <whitequark> I don't know who showed me this wonderful story about Sumerian, academia, and love, but it's wonderful https://t.co/EK252iMGO0
<APlayer> Guys, I've finally made it! I managed to get a photo of Andromeda! :-)
<egg|nomz|egg> \o/
<hattivat> congrats
<bofh> nice.
<APlayer> It is underexposed and there is some star trailing because I neither have a proper telescope nor any sort of tracking equipment, but I ramped up my ISO and got quite a few frames. So I should be able to stack it halfway decently and perhaps just make it brighter
<bofh> egg|nomz|egg: ahh.
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<egg|zzz|egg> bofh: which means also that the title of the story, ?, does look like three stars in the cuneiform of that period
<egg|zzz|egg> which is nice, it's a cute glyph
<egg|zzz|egg> haha when I type that in my address bar it autocompletes to UmbralRaptor's twitter :-p
<APlayer> !u ?
<Qboid> U+1202F CUNEIFORM SIGN AN THREE TIMES (?)
<APlayer> What?
<UmbralRaptor> ^_^
<UmbralRaptor> APlayer: grats!
<egg|zzz|egg> APlayer: MUL
<APlayer> UmbralRaptor, others: Thanks! :-)
<APlayer> egg: I'm not sure I got this
<egg|zzz|egg> !g ?
<Qboid> egg|zzz|egg: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%F0%92%80%AF [? - Wiktionary] (58 results found, took 0.40s)
<APlayer> egg: So this is an actual character used in some language?
* UmbralRaptor transforms APlayer into AkkadianPlayer.
<APlayer> What's that? :D
<hattivat> egg|zzz|egg: I'll read it, I promise, but probably not today, I have several so many tabs with long-form stuff already open, life is too short :<
<hattivat> especially these last few weeks when in addition to being our data engineer, data scientist, main backend dev, and part-time sysadmin, on top of all of this am I become recruiter, the destroyer of hopes
<hattivat> APlayer: it seems in my absence there was a profound lack of linguistics of this channel if you are not familiar with these
<hattivat> yes, these are actual characters of the cuneiform script, the first form of writing, ancient Mesophotamia (modern Iraq)
<hattivat> and Akkadian is an ancient Semitic language, basically a very old cousin of Hebrew and Arabic
<APlayer> Seems like a very useful thing to have in modern Unicode protocols
<hattivat> apparently there's enough space for a literal shit emoji there, so I don't think adding cuneiform will hurt ;)
<APlayer> Very well, I am convinced :P
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<e_14159> hattivat: Especially since it actually renders as shit in the address bar.
<e_14159> Oh, too late.
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<hattivat> my ISP is doing everything in its power to convince me to switch this month
<FluffyFoxeh> please stop giving me money
<FluffyFoxeh> I beg you
<egg|zzz|egg> hattivat: you missed <e_14159> hattivat: Especially since it actually renders as shit in the address bar.
<hattivat> egg|zzz|egg: already checked it on that handy archive, but thanks anyway :)
<egg|zzz|egg> oh yeah, the Thomas-whitequark logs are good
<UmbralRaptor> "Kittens vibrate, so they are blurry, everyone knows this."
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<bofh> hattivat: lucky you, with a choice of ISPs.
<hattivat> bofh: I know what you mean, Europe generally is better in this regard, but my particular city is not so lucky - one ISP is close enough to being a monopoly to be the 'default' that you can expect to inherit in any rental
<hattivat> so, you have a choice, but not in every area, and it's a hassle to take advantage of it
<bofh> hattivat: which city are you in anyhow?
<hattivat> Poznań, Poland
<egg|zzz|egg> UmbralRaptor: is the aaas like the aas but screaming?
<UmbralRaptor> egg|zzz|egg: with Trump's budget proposal, pretty much.
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<egg|zzz|egg> !wpn whitequark, котя, and порошок
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<kmath> <dlberes> incredibly bleak reddit content https://t.co/GhLV6wjvAG
<egg|zzz|egg> hattivat: bofh: the topmost image here clearly starts with ????? with the same glyphs as noto https://cdli.ucla.edu/search/archival_view.php?ObjectID=P342632
<egg|zzz|egg> impressively readable cone tbh
<egg|zzz|egg> bofh: also there's a sort of very visible stroke order on those intersecting marks in ?
<bofh> ooh
<kmath> https://twitter.com/JamesMcNellis/status/919292129469485057 <JamesMcNellis> When you're a Roman trying to inscribe your tweet but you have slightly more than 140 characters... https://t.co/GNQfUDWrMQ
<egg|zzz|egg> bofh: to the unicode proposal! latin capital ligature ma, NFKD decomposes to MA :D
<egg|zzz|egg> (kidding of course, that's not semantically distinct from MA so wouldn't pass)
<hattivat> speaking of scripts, does unicode have a set for Sütterlin?
<egg|zzz|egg> bofh: hm, seems that where a vertical mark and a horizontal mark cross, the horizontal one is written after
<hattivat> or Gregg shorthand?
<egg|zzz|egg> bofh: so, the reverse from CJK then :D
<hattivat> seems not
<hattivat> holy shit, though Duployan is in Unicod
<hattivat> e
<kmath> <cstross> @rebelrebel62 @1aprildaniels @charliejane I nearly wrote a dystopian novel back in 2015. (Did a quarter.) Am now re… https://t.co/EoBc5tqK09
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<egg|zzz|egg> hattivat!
<egg|zzz|egg> bofh: unfortunately I can't really find any good cuneiform version names for principia
<egg|zzz|egg> (no names of mathematicians)
<bofh> egg|zzz|egg: wait, do you now need semantic difference to land in Unicode as a character?
<bofh> what were famous Sumerian, Akkadian or Hittite mathematicians anyhow?
<bofh> there had to have been some.
<UmbralRaptor> Frustratingly, wilipedia only seems to have the names of kings.
<egg|zzz|egg> bofh: well yes, the ligatures are there for compatibility reasons
<soundnfury> Unicod, the universal gadiform set.
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<egg|zzz|egg> bofh: so a weird glyph for w is not grounds for encoding, but if you have two glyphs for w in the same text you're good http://www.unicode.org/L2/L2017/17238-n4838-anglicana-w.pdf
<egg|zzz|egg> "w and Anglicana ꟃ cannot be distinguished in an interchangeable way because the
<egg|zzz|egg> latter character is missing from the UCS"
<egg|zzz|egg> and that's grounds for encoding
<egg|zzz|egg> !u w and Anglicana ꟃ cannot be distinguished in an interchangeable way because the
<Qboid> egg|zzz|egg: Too many characters! (Maximum: 10)
<egg|zzz|egg> latter character is missing from the UCS
<egg|zzz|egg> uh
<egg|zzz|egg> stupid hexchat
<egg|zzz|egg> why do you interfere with the system's copy-pasting behaviour
<egg|zzz|egg> !u ꟃ
<Qboid> U+A7C3 (ꟃ)
<egg|zzz|egg> bofh: currently in active ISO technical ballot http://unicode.org/alloc/Pipeline.html
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<egg|zzz|egg> bofh: semantic distinction isn't the term really; it's interchangeable representability of a text
<egg|zzz|egg> !u ȝ
<Qboid> U+021D LATIN SMALL LETTER YOGH (ȝ)
<egg|zzz|egg> !u Ᵹ
<Qboid> U+A77D LATIN CAPITAL LETTER INSULAR G (Ᵹ)
* UmbralRaptor guesses that that S needs to travel more?
<egg|zzz|egg> bofh: yeah so ȝ is a good example
<egg|zzz|egg> bofh: the glyph for g turned into ȝ in great britain and ireland, but that per se is just a weird glyph
<egg|zzz|egg> bofh: but then middle-english re-borrowed g from the continent, so you need both g and ȝ to represent middle english texts
<egg|zzz|egg> bofh: hence, encoding
<egg|zzz|egg> bofh: and then ȝ was replaced by gh which is a shame really
<egg|zzz|egg> UmbralRaptor: S?
* UmbralRaptor pokes UmbralRaptor in the parser.
<UmbralRaptor> egg|zzz|egg: G apparently.
<egg|zzz|egg> bofh: <bofh> there had to have been some. << well, yes, but not famous enough for their names to have come to us
<egg|zzz|egg> bofh: you have this king with a fancy calendar reform, not sure if that counts https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nabonassar#Calendar_reform
<egg|zzz|egg> ???
<bofh> completely unrelated for a second, but this video is amazing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KFXlrn6-ypg&fmt=18
<kmath> YouTube - Operation Dominic I and II - Starfish Prime Part 2 1962
<bofh> this is the goofiest fucking synthpop I've heard in a long time and it's background music for US gov't footage of high-altitude nuclear tests.
<bofh> it's basically Look Around You: Bremsstrahlung
<bofh> egg|zzz|egg: ahh, so *that's* the origin of Yogh.
<egg|zzz|egg> bofh: ȝ-ſoþoþ
<UmbralRaptor> egg|zzz|egg: please do not open the gate.
<bofh> ^
<UmbralRaptor> s/the gate/the gate/
<Qboid> UmbralRaptor meant to say: egg|zzz|egg: please do not open the gate.