One thing I think a lot of programmer-types fail to understand about law is that "rationality" and so on as we believe we understand it doesn't really exist. One of the most irrational human beliefs is in the existence of the rational human.

Oh, c’mon, let’s be reasonable

2x a finite value is still a finite value

Unicode is for text symbols, some of which represent one word (e.g. &, U+2116) and some of which represent multiple words (e.g. U+FDFD). Other non-letter characters include numbers, punctuation, and so on.

The original set of emoji were from JP mobile phones (pre-unicode-emoji) and should not be confused with kaomoji/emoticons

A lot of the arguments in this second link fall flat (e.g. "ohh you're violating the license if you npm run on your dev machine!") and it'd be more convincing if it spent less time trying to nitpick nonsense like that and just stuck to the moral argument it's trying to make

I think "stop killing people" is easier in a practical sense than "cure cancer"; it's only due to the bloodlust that people feel the need to spend time advocating against it.

What time does it save you if you still have to read through just as many entries to validate as you do to sort?

If you're the type who double-checks your work and this is important: 40% of the time.

If you're the type who doesn't: probably 90% of the time.

This feels like goal-post moving now, with questions less genuinely curious about an answer and more trying to "get" me. How am I supposed to answer that, it depends on the task and the model and the harness and specific human being using it.

Use it or don't, I don't care, but at least be genuine in the discussion.

>why did their campaign staffers go out of their way to find an exact named person to put on the ballot

A bold allegation, which, if untrue, renders your question moot

Yes, that's the allegation. You'll note that it is still under dispute.

Is there any evidence there's a problem here worth solving (i.e. worth the non-zero costs of a change?)

Signs point to "no".

Re: mp3, Opus is a pretty big improvement. In my experience I've found that Opus is pretty reliably transparent at 96kbit/s, whereas LAME (which really squeezes mp3 for all it's got) needs ~130kbit/s

I think encode costs are higher (although I'm struggling to find any actual data) but in my experience this is totally negligible in practice.

Of course, don't go converting all your mp3s to Opus, but if you're running a music streaming server or whatever, Opus is pretty sweet... and probably close to "as good as it gets" until/unless we figure out some crazy new tricks.