Yes different languages use different sets of characters, most of them overlapping in the case of Latin derived characters. It would be vastly less convenient if there was a completely different set (with mostly the same characters) for every single language. And what about variants over time and region and dialect? So it is much better to model them as subsets of the same larger character set. Note that À and Á are different characters with different Unicode symbols.

The human world is messy with lots of inconsistencies and irregularities, particularly from pre-computer times because humans just deal with them and tolerate mistakes. This is a challenge for modelling properly in computer systems. It does not surprise me that there are even bigger challenges around this for Kanji / Hanzi.

Putting a piece of tape (perhaps duct tape, or electrical tape) over the holes will probably keep them from unraveling further.

Now they’ll have video proof that Jesus was white. And had 7 fingers.

It updates for me. For example (and I just tested this), if some other process copies a file into the directory I have open in dolphin, I see the file appear pretty instantly.

It constantly pisses me off that my coworker emails me screen shots of error messages instead of cutting and pasting the text, so I can’t easily just select some of the text to search on.

The worst problem, to me, is that it pollutes our “environment” that is, our cultural environment, our pool of input about the world, with potential corruption, inaccuracies, at worst the intensification of falsities, stereotypes, and mediocre conceptions. Even if you don’t detect them in an AI image, they may be there. A real world image contains details that humans have not already preconceived, and diluting that with the bullshit of what humanity thinks is reality but which may or may not be, will have a greater long run cost than we can imagine.

No friend is acceptable unless they have no human faults!

Seems normal to me. At some variable time after I get up, I need to poop. I feel like coffee or eating, even drinking water, can encourage it, but even without those, it happens. If I try to repress it, like if i’m still working on making coffee and want to finish, it can become quite urgent.

I have one drink most nights. At most it relaxes me a little, but mainly I just enjoy the flavor /sensory experience.

I understand the pleasures of the experience of getting drunk, but pursuing that is a losing proposition. Over time it gets harder to achieve the pleasurable effects and the negative effects come on faster.

(I meant to post this as a top level comment. Since I left it here I’ll just add that I’m lucky enough to be someone who can stop, though there have been many times I didn’t have the sense to. After drinking too much, my body tells me No the next day. I’ve known people who’s body tells them to have another drink the next day. I’ve been lucky.)