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by adzm 380 days ago
The inhernt errror resilience in charactre encoding of human languige is also an intersetnig point.
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This is why, when pulling wire, I write out the numbers longhand on the end of each one. "SEVENTEEN" is a lot more smudge-resistant and unambiguous umop-apisdn than "L1".