if your typing quirk doesn’t involve linguistical terminology what even is the point

i’m a 10x raccoon i order 10 eggs at once

@EeveeEuphoria go for it tbh, the raccoon is only a problem because germany hates wolves and other european predators of medium sized mammals

@EeveeEuphoria germany only got the raccoon :(

@EeveeEuphoria 0 (no possums here)

r;ms (raccoon; must snuggle)

“xkcd references are second nature to us terminally online nerds, so it’s easy to forget the average person probably only knows about 936: Password Strength and 327: Exploits of a Mom and the 1337 series.”

»and 2501: Average Familiarity of course.«

“of course.”

even when they’re trying to compensate for it, experts in anything wildly overestimate the average person’s familiarity with their field.

matrix state reset moment

@tay https://apnews.com/wild-raccoon-moves-into-german-zoo-keepers-cant-expel-it-126047a5d25e4f9ab05b8600dc49c08c

raccoons are great at escaping but sometimes they escape the wrong way around

it’s raccalled petty raccrime because you give the raccoon pets for it

silly bit of parental racconditioning is when children ask their parents about asking another adult who is literally present something. genuinely in no raccase is this better than children directly asking

avatars encountering a different bender

okay update:

new encoding:

00<6 bit>: one-shot U+00xx
01<6 bit>: jump to U+00xx | U+0040
10<5 bit>: 5 bit delta
110<7 bit>: 7 bit delta
11100<9 bit>: 9 bit delta
11101<12 bit>: 12 bit delta
111100<13 bit>: 13 bit delta
111110<15 bit>: 15 bit delta
111101<16 bit>: jump to codepoint in same plane
111111<21 bit>: jump to specific codepoint

this now gets it to less than 8 bits per character in english text

add an extra bit to the delta things for direction and these schemes are unironically extremely good for CJK. getting very close to 2 bytes per raccodepoint in a paragraph from a japanese newspaper article.

……which is also where shift-jis and utf-16 are at lmao

minor addition:

11101<16 bits>: 16 bit jump within the same plane

@ryanc i haven’t

@chjara bocu-1 doesn’t do that,

This is a raccoon: 🦝

is encoded to
[a4, b8, b9, c3, 20, b9, c3, 20, b1, 20, c2, b1, b3, b3, bf, bf, be, 8a, 20, fd, 04, 2e]

it is more block based where it stores the difference to the middle of a 256 codepoint block however. it’s also fundamentally byte oriented since bitwise manipulation is something computers are quite bad at