>Have fun baking your Reese’s Original Peanut Butter cookies!

I think it will be even worse. Like, "Im having terrible pollen allergies - what can I do?"

Response will be very scientific sounding version of; You need some brand XYZ anithistamin , it will give the best effects, and the others you should only try if you low-key are looking to die.

It will pretend to have done "research" for you and will say something like "most recent studies (Madeup Author, 2026) suggest that the side effects of alternative brands are not well understood"

Definetly, thats how I have felt about and used C++ for most of my career. ( well except I dont select C++ for personal projects).

I wouldnt go as far as to say, I dont like Rust, but it doesnt come natural to me like many other languages do after several decades of experience.

What are you trying to achieve, none of those characters are printable, and definetly not going to show up on the web.

    for x in range(0x0,0x20): print(f'({chr(x)})', end =' ')
    (0|) (1|) (2|) (3|) (4|) (5|) (6|) (7|) (8) (9| ) (10|
    ) (11|
          ) (12|
    ) (14|) (15|) (16|) (17|) (18|) (19|) (20|) (21|) (22|) (23|) (24|) (25|)    (26|␦) (27|8|) (29|) (30|) (31|)

Just asking why they have different icons in different environments? Maybe it is UTF-8 vs ISO-8859?

UTF-8 is not technically a character set (because it has way more than 256 characters). Characters 32-127 in UTF8 are the same as ASCII, which is the same as the OEM/CP437 and the ANSI/ISO-8859/CP1252.

The characters in CP437 (and other OEM codepages) actually come from the ROM of the VGA (and EGA/CGA/MCGA/Hercules before them).

What you are referring to is those (visually), right? I'm missing some characters in the first line, because HN drops them.

    0123456789abcdef
   0...♥♦♣♠•◘○◙..♪♫.
   1►◄↕‼¶§▬↨↑↓→←∟↔▲▼

As far as I know, the equivalent control characters (characters 0-31) don't have any representation in CP1252, but that's also dependent on the font (since rendering of CP1252 is always done by Windows)

As to their origin, originally the full CP437 character set was taken from Wang word processors. I don't know where Wang took it from, but they probably invented it themselves.

EDIT: There's a more complete history here: https://www.os2museum.com/wp/weird-tales/

EDIT 2: The CP437 character set didn't seem to come directly from Wang; it's just that they took some (a lot) of characters from Wang word processors character sets. The positions of those "graphic" characters was decided by Microsoft when they made MS-DOS (at least according to Bill Gates).

In my screen there is indeed about thirty icons. When I executed the program on xterm, they were different and when I pasted them on LibreOffice they were again different. And now it seems this shit is also different in every country.

The world is broken.

They shouldn't show as visual representations, but some "ASCII" charts show the IBM PC character set instead of the ASCII set. IIRC, up to 0xFF UTF-8 and 8859 are very close with the exceptions being the UTF-8 escapes for the longer characters.

There's no 0x80-0xFF in the UTF-8 encoding. Only up to 0x7F (127) it's the same.

Opera AI solved the problem:

If you want to use symbols for Mars and Venus for example,they are not in range(0,0x20). They are in Miscellanous Symbols block.

Yes especially in hot humid climates where they sag already after a year if you are keeping a Monitor and some books on it.

-HAL, Throw my portable computing device through the porthole.

-Im afraid I cant do that Dave!

-HAL, do you need some time on dr. Chandras couch again?

-Dave, relax, have you forgotten that I dont have arms?

Or if 640k was not only all you'd ever need, it was all we'd ever get.

Ya, but that means no high-res GUI. And pretty annoying limits on data set size.

This is actually the scariest part. Because lately even authors and creators who are not using LLM are starting to pick up some of these ways of expressing themselves.

Oh, I didn't learn it from LLM's, believe me.

That style of writing has been around forever. LLM's learned it from us. I'd basically call it "American sales pitch". It's a little bit product landing page, a little bit political opinion column, a little bit self-help book or motivational blogger.

It's always been a style of writing that tries to maximize engagement. The issue is that now we see it creeping into areas that never used to use it. It's not how developers tend to write. But now developers toss their original draft into an LLM asking it to "punch it up for engagement" -- or the LLM has just been trained to assume that's what someone wants by default -- and so now it stands out like a sore thumb.

And obviously, it's an appeal to emotion. Whereas developers tend to be looking for just the cold hard facts. So it's doubly off-putting.

I wonder where did LLM learnt that...

My main takeaway from this article, is that I want to know what happened to the modified pigs with non-cloven hoofs

Perhaps we just need Tinder for employee-employer relationships?

Its all in the profile - and we can all just swipe left/right instead.

Dysfunctional FAANG seeks 10X prompt engineer in hyderabad

When you code with butterflies, you code at the speed of flight.

https://www.xkcd.com/378/