NeatNit

Emoji domains can be registered using punycode, and you're right that it's up to the TLD whether they're allowed or not.

For example: http://xn--yt8h.la/%F0%9F%90%B6

📙.la is encoded using punycode to http://xn--yt8h.la/

🐶 is URL-encoded to %F0%9F%90%B6

Giving the 'true' URL http://xn--yt8h.la/%F0%9F%90%B6 which then redirects to https://emojipedia.org/dog-face

Emails should generally use @xn--yt8h.la instead of @📙.la for maximum compatibility. I'm not sure if the email spec allows punycode.

I scored 16/21 on https://e-mail.wtf/ and all I got was this lousy text to share on social media.

This was fun!

Edit: people, upvote the OP, not me

While you're right, I think there is no right answer here and actually the decisions are probably the best they could have made.

Taiwan flag up for 12 years, fair enough.

China complains? Well, don't want to make an enemy of China and it's a tiny change, why oppose it? Just do as China asked and be done with it.

Taiwan complains? Oops, don't want to make an enemy of Taiwan either, so their flag is definitely going back up. But we can't take down China's flag for the aforementioned reasons. But now the Taiwanese flag is up because Taiwan asked for it, not because the council insisted on keeping it.

After this "stay neutral" comment, any further complaint from either Taiwan or China won't achieve anything. They are literally treating both parties equally, i.e. neutrally.

We're all playing checkers and this council is winning at 4D chess without even realizing it.

Great question, very interested to hear the answer if anyone knows. Please mention me, future posters!

I expect the answer to be very different for Gaza and for the west bank.

My best guesses (NOT BASED ON KNOWLEDGE, JUST SPECULATION):

West Bank perhaps can connect to Israeli telecom service providers. I'm guessing that's what Israeli settlements in the west bank do, so no reason why Palestinian cities wouldn't do that too.

As for Gaza, again their only telecommunications have to be through Israel. It appears that Israel can literally just stop the internet service (and electricity and water for that matter), and Gaza would be in the dark. The fact that Israel isn't doing this is a bit of an enigma to me - not because I think they should (I don't), but because it's very obvious the the Israeli government thinks it should. Some ministers have literally said as much.

Relevant: Arnold Schwarzenegger's famous speech, Don't Ever Call Me a Self-Made Man https://youtu.be/DOldEbWxgdQ (you can probably easily find it not on YouTube with a web search). It's not 100% what you asked but it's along the same lines.

Edit: full speech https://youtu.be/RJsvR_gSEjg

I take issue with "fully functioning". I believe no person on earth is fully functioning, at least not in the developed world. Everyone has to rely on others for some tasks, including basic tasks.

For me it's mostly cooking, which is a huge gap in my function.

Just off the top of my head:

• Cooking
• Cleaning
• Home maintenance
• Exercise
• Paperwork/bureaucracy
• Socializing (friends, family)
• Pets (optional)
• Children (optional)
• Work/Study
• Digital safety (e.g. using a password manager, keeping devices up to date, avoiding malware)
• Culture (books, movies, games etc.)
• News (at least on subjects you care about) from trustworthy sources
• Hobbies

I consider all of these necessary to be "fully functioning". I really don't see how it's possible for one person to have the time and the knowledge for all of these diverse tasks.

We're humans, and we live in a society. We specialize, and if we're lucky, we have people close to us who can fill in the gaps where we fall short.

I can't cook, and I rely on my family for proper food, otherwise I usually go for frozen stuff. But in return I make sure my family doesn't make any digital safety blunders, and I fix things around the house that my mother just wouldn't know where to start.

Loads of people hire a cleaner to regularly clean their home. Are they not able to clean for themselves? Are they not fully functioning? No, of course they could if you take cleaning in isolation, but they can't do everything, and more importantly, they can't do it to the same level of quality. Replace cleaning with whatever.

The fully functioning adult is a myth. Everyone offloads.

Didn't read many other comments, don't know if this was already said.

Took me a second read to get it. For those who are similarly slow and need some help: it's just some news. No relation between the first half and second half.

Good one!

If you didn't link that, I would have

The Pitch Meeting video is how I first learned this movie exists. Sent it to a friend with the message:

I haven't watched the pitch meeting yet but there is no chance in hell this movie is better than the original

Secretly I was hoping I was wrong, but oh boy, that turned out to be an understatement. Turns out my friend had actually already watched it with his mother... Or rather, tried to watch it. They had to stop hallway through because of how shit it was.

So glad I didn't have to experience that.

(Note: I have since learned that the movie I was thinking about is not the original, there was an older movie and they're both based on a book)

A lot of things are crazy around here :(

I can confirm that the subtitles are accurate. But I'm less sure about the parts where they're talking over each other. Also I don't know the context that preceded this conversation but I can't imagine how it would justify this.

Pretty sure that's the obligatory "insane representation of the opposite viewpoint" panel member, as this channel isn't usually one to back these viewpoints. The other panel members argue with him for a reason. Channel 14 (propaganda channel) is where you'll hear these kinds of insane things said by the regular hosts.

It's an interesting discussion. As someone who doesn't actually deal with this and who literally never used Rust, I feel out of me depth. But it does sound like Rust has much better mechanisms to catch a programmer's mistake. See my reply to the other guy.

Thanks for this. I was paraphrasing (badly, it seems). The video actually says it better:

To write code that lives in an embedded environment, it has to run in this mode in Rust called "no standard" (#![no_std]) and this mode called "no main" (#![no_main]). Basically you have no access to any of the core utilities in Rust, you have to write a lot of them yourself.

He then explains how embedded code necessarily has global mutability which is "the antithesis" of Rust development.

So yeah, you could make all of those wrappers, but at the end of the day you'll end up with about the same amount of "unsafe" code as you would making the same thing in C++.

Edit: but if what you said still applies, it does seem like Rust would watch your back somewhat better than C++ would in that it wouldn't even compile unsafe operations outside of unsafe blocks, unlike C++ to the best of my knowledge where you kind of have to review the code yourself to make sure it only uses the appropriate wrappers.