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[Frumple]

i see the reference to horses counting with their feet and

all i can think is you've invented the programming equivalent of (for all that don't know what this means, my best, most sincere suggestion: don't look it up, you're better off not knowing) a clop fic

the second, more unfortunate, think, is if that makes the subject verboten on b12 due to being my little pony adjacent

[dragdeler]

I kinda had to look it up you know, but made a U-turn after seeing the urban dictionary definition under a title in the top results.

Oh for fucks sake, I tried to prep myself with chatgpt, figured I got time to piss away, but was forced to keep it short as the depths of binary code elude me. Guess it could never have warned me about this particular angle without a little nudging from my part. But the worst part is that I missed the existence of the word hoarse.

Why is it called "clop" fic tho? Is it just the sound of the hooves?

[WealthyRadish]

Encoding Morse code would be a bit of a nightmare. It's essentially like UTF-8 (each glyph has a variable number of codepoints) but each codepoint is 1-bit rather than a full byte. A compact storage of it (like, not using 8 times as much memory as necessary) would need to be able to split a glyph across multiple bytes, adding really annoying complexity to basically every string operation.

[dragdeler]

It seems like no letter has more than 4 beeps, so we can store exactly 2 letters in 1 byte (maybe)? But it seems like we need 7 short beeps for a space, so that's annoying.

[Maximum Spin]

It seems like no letter has more than 4 beeps, so we can store exactly 2 letters in 1 byte (maybe)? But it seems like we need 7 short beeps for a space, so that's annoying.

Won't work. How do you distinguish C from NN, or S from IE? You could zero-pad short symbols (or 1-pad them), but then how do you tell G or W from P?

[dragdeler]

edit: Oh no, even if you go by the convention that letters go from the first to the fourth and the fifth and the last bit, it might actually be ambigious, apparently morse uses short pause no beep not 7 short beeps for space, and 1 short pause to delineate between letters. That's a third state... Idk if can just substitute "2" by "0" without causing bugs.


got ninja'd

Ok MS inspired me to look apparantly that makes "space" = "BH" (or HH depending on what convention you set for spaces)


Simple actually make HH forbidden for any and all text!


Which does leave with an odd h here or there when it's an uneven number of characters before a space... hm if we do what WR said was inefficient, we end up with HH. Is that good or bad? Did a broken clock just fix a bug?

[Frumple]

Why is it called "clop" fic tho? Is it just the sound of the hooves?

Yeah, basically. As far as I'm aware it was adopted because the word is fairly close to fap in both spelling and (in this specific usage) intent, except hoofs because, well. Hooves.

E: Infinite english hatefact of the day: Both hoofs and hooves is a legitimate pluralization of hoof.

Remember folks, english hates you and wants you to suffer!

[Egan_BW]

horfs

[Eric Blank]

Hoofies!

[King Zultan]

Hoofuls

[scriver]

Why is it called "clop" fic tho? Is it just the sound of the hooves?

Yeah, basically. As far as I'm aware it was adopted because the word is fairly close to fap in both spelling and (in this specific usage) intent, except hoofs because, well. Hooves.

E: Infinite english hatefact of the day: Both hoofs and hooves is a legitimate pluralization of hoof.

Remember folks, english hates you and wants you to suffer!

That's the opposite of wanting you to suffer

That's being fine either way

[Egan_BW]

English is nothing if not accommodating.

[Bumber]

It takes more muscles to frown than smile, unless you have resting bitch face.

[Eric Blank]

And the fools that are always reminding you how many muscles to use don't care how sore your muscles get from trying to smile all day

Also, "fay" is apparently a valid word in my phones autocorrect library

[McTraveller]

Also, "fay" is apparently a valid word in my phones autocorrect library

Yeah it's related to fey, meaning faerie, etc.