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[–] sailor_sega_saturn@awful.systems 18 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (4 children)

~~Senior software engineer~~ programmer here. I have had to tell coworkers "don't trust anything chat-gpt tells you about text encoding" after it made something up about text encoding.

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 10 points 2 days ago (3 children)

ah but did you tell them in CP437 or something fancy (like any text encoding after 1996)? 🤨🤨🥹

[–] sailor_sega_saturn@awful.systems 12 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Sadly all my best text encoding stories would make me identifiable to coworkers so I can't share them here. Because there's been some funny stuff over the years. Wait where did I go wrong that I have multiple text encoding stories?

That said I mostly just deal with normal stuff like UTF-8, UTF-16, Latin1, and ASCII.

You've got to make sure you're not over-specializing. I'd recommend trying to roll your own time zone library next.

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