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Cake day: August 12th, 2023

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  • The lawsuit argued that the city council’s policy didn’t maintain neutrality because it allowed certain flags — like the U.S. and state flags, prisoner-of-war flags and flags that “represent the international character” of residents — while banning other types of flags – like political, religious, and racial flags.

    If that claim is accurate it is a selective ban. Allowing only government flags on government flagpoles could be reasonable. But then they should still ban international flags, and if the POW flag is not a government thing that as well.


  • ℉ and Celsius ℃ come fully assembled as a single character One of my biggest annoyances is seeing the degree glyph

    The Unicode Consortium disagrees with you. ℉ and ℃ are included for round-trip convertibility, they are compatibility characters. That doesn’t mean you’re not supposed to use them, but the decomposition of ℉ is ° + F, which does mean they are equivalent and that it is correct to use ° for both angles and temperatures.

    It’s like how hyphen-minus has two very different uses but is one character.