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I am being judged by a small owl
(quite rightly so. I thought that playing owl calls from merlin might be a cool way to get a response, but I now realize that I freaked the hell out of the owls by doing so.
Sorry, owls. Sowls.)
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Open on xoxo.zone Stewart RussellMetafilter:
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auld hairy scottish git in Toronto. Does futile things with electronics, including trying to sell them. This ended very badly. I've built and operated wind farms in many places: I may know what I'm talking about here. I've been known as scruss since 1981. Some people know me by it and may not recognize my real name. (he/him) formerly @scruss Hey! If you follow me and you've got 0 posts and 0 people following you, I'm going to block you.
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In 1974, ANSI published the Standard character set for handprinting (ANSI X3.45-1974). It proposed a uniform method of #handwriting acceptable to optical character recognition technology of the day. It included only upper case letters. It had some quirks: letter O has a tail at the top, like Q rotated 90 degrees. S has a little tail at the bottom left. U has a square base. Z has a full-width bar at mid level. I wonder if anyone ever used it?
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 @scruss This feels very similar to the old OCR-A typeface that cash registers used to scan before barcodes were a thing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OCR-A Interesting,no slashed zero - which was commonly told over here - would have avoided that strange O. Also the horizontal bared Z is as well standard. Last but not least the 7 being as well bared. helps to distinguish from ones and slopy I and T.  @scruss I would confuse 0 and O nonstop. I am used to a strike through with a zero and the tail at the O would be interpreted as such. |
@scruss ...stewart did you just make a "Look Around You" joke