Is that supposed to be some kind of HN easter egg? I mean, who has quick enough access to that character to accidentally write it instead? And if he's using some esoteric layout, I'm sure he knows his keyboard well enough not to mix them up!
I know that "unique", which became a synonym of "unusual" years ago, has now also become a synonym of "distinct", especially in tech contexts, like "unique hits", but it still grates on my ears (or eyes, in this case). Languages are fluid, and change is inevitable, but I'm sad when those changes are careless and cause a loss of precision of expression.
With definitions "forming the only one of its kind" and "being the only one of its kind". I don't have a trillion unique bits of memory on my SSD, as they are all interchangeable.
"70 Distinct Ways to Encode <" would be the traditionally correct way to say it. I should have made that more clear in my original rant. My objection to using "unique" in this context is that doing so further erodes the original, narrow meaning of "unique" as "one of a kind". I suppose that makes me a prescriptivist and I'm okay with that.
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It's FULLWIDTH LESS-THAN SIGN: http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/ff1c/index.htm
With definitions "forming the only one of its kind" and "being the only one of its kind". I don't have a trillion unique bits of memory on my SSD, as they are all interchangeable.
Would it matter if the audience is international or if the audience mostly has English as a first language?
"70 Different Ways to Encode〈"?
"Everyone is unique." with the watered down version of the word "unique" just means "Everyone is distinct."
Perhaps people are beginning to collectively believe that nothing is irreproducible.
I give you mine, Untitled 7 (solidus on web page):
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> aprilthemoo: are you autistic or something StoneCypher?
Quality discussion right there.
All the others actually render the character, someone please correct me if I'm wrong?