kutkloon7 (u/kutkloon7)

kutkloon7 commented on A Branchless UTF-8 Decoder nullprogram.com/blog/2017... · Posted by u/zdw

kuwze · 8 years ago

I'm an idiot in this area.

Why would you decode utf8?

kutkloon7 · 8 years ago

To get the unicode codepoint. For example, you need this when you want to render a character, or convert it to another representation.

kutkloon7 commented on The decline of Turkish schools economist.com/news/europe... · Posted by u/imartin2k

notzorbo3 · 8 years ago

I have not gotten the feeling that Turkey is no longer a democracy? I have to admit that I haven't researched it much, but I haven't heard anything in the mainstream media about fraud during the elections or the referendum to expand the presidents powers. The whole coup was a disaster of course, and the way Erdogan reacted is without a doubt dictatorial in nature. But I wouldn't be surprised if a majority of the people are actually supportive of him, much like people are supportive of Putin in Russia.

I've always found it kinda weird that as soon as people in different countries vote for something we don't like, we consider them no longer democratic.

BUT, like I said, I haven't researched it well enough, so I might be entirely off the mark here. If you have any info on this, I'd love to hear it.

kutkloon7 · 8 years ago

A huge number of journalists is being arrested in Turkey. Turks who say bad things about Erdogan and/or Turkey on social media often get arrested.

kutkloon7 commented on The decline of Turkish schools economist.com/news/europe... · Posted by u/imartin2k

notzorbo3 · 8 years ago

> It is the classic way of the dictatorship

Let's not kid ourselves though. The people voted time and again for Erdogan and his policies. It's a democracy that brought this upon itself. Putting the blame on a single individual and labeling them a dictator just muddies the water.

kutkloon7 · 8 years ago

True, but is also a public secret that people who vote against Erdogan are being threatened.

kutkloon7 commented on 'You will be sexually harassed': just one of the perils of working for tips theguardian.com/us-news/2... · Posted by u/tomduncalf

kutkloon7 · 8 years ago

Only in America

kutkloon7 commented on Modern terminal-based text editor micro-editor.github.io/in... · Posted by u/tanrax

kutkloon7 · 8 years ago

"Does micro support Vi keybindings?

No, if you want to use Vim then use Vim."

Kthnksbye

kutkloon7 commented on Facing poverty, academics turn to sex work and sleeping in cars theguardian.com/us-news/2... · Posted by u/tjalfi

kutkloon7 · 8 years ago

The things that are priorities in the USA have always puzzled me. Students pay an absolutely insane amount of money for an education that is very mediocre. It is clear that the American education is failing. About half of the population voted for a man who does not believe in science. But somehow, the main priorities for universities seems to be enforcing diversity and gender-neutral pronouns?

I am not saying that thinking about this is wrong, there is just a deep disconnect with the realities that people live in, and many people seem to have a problem viewing things from another perspective.