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It’s Not Wrong that (for HN) “[facepalm emoji]”.length == 36
y! Unintentional clickbait! I am not talking about how a space character has length 36 in Hacker News! If you are coming here from HN the above 🤦🏼♂️ emoji have been replaced with a space! A couple of days I published a pretty innocent post to HN. The source article was talking about all the various escamotages techniques used to create new emojis.
I was pretty sure to have seen emojis in the past on HN titles, so I thought that maybe it was a first level filter of some sort. Today I checked again and it was pretty funny to see the actual renaming done to have it stay in our beloved 80 columns. Ah, and copy-pasting this post URL on mobile Safari, shows it this way:
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