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charcircuityesterday at 3:57 AM1 replyview on HN

That is not an ideal translation as it prioritizes round tripability over natural word choice or ordering.


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XorNotyesterday at 7:25 AM

Getting byte exact text isn't the point though: even if it's different, I as the original writer can still look at roundtripped text and evaluate that it has the same meaning.

It's not a lossy process, and N round-trips should not lose any net meaning either.

This isn't a possible test with many other applications.

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