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The typeface is called `monofur`, so technically all the text is composed of furry characters.
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That's true, they won't process any proposals for flags anymore. The first link in the linked post is a detailed FAQ from the Unicode people: > Flags for countries with Unicode region codes [ie. recognized by ISO] are automat
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The article says: > The upgrade represents roughly 45 MB of memory savings for the Brave browser on every platform (Android, iOS and desktop) by default
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In high school I used an extension to do this, but I didn't find I was retaining much. With regular text you're basically doing the same thing, but can stop and change speed at will. Still, I could keep up fairly well until I hi
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There's also disulfiram (branded as Antabuse), which impedes your body's ability to fully break down alcohol. If you drink, you basically get an instant and devastating hangover (which can even kill you). Apparently it's pros
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I recently watched a video about the anthropological origins of the pork taboo. The hygiene theory is popular, but not uncontested: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pI0ZUhBvIx4
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AA also has the Serenity Prayer (namesake of SerenityOS): > God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, Courage to change the things I can, and Wisdom to know the difference. Every time I think of it, I also think of
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Compare with one of my favourite maps of all times, the Turgot Map of 1730s Paris. The full-res image is worth the giant download, it's a lot of fun to just pan around. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turgot_map_of_P
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Improving road design can be fun for hacker-types. This Youtube channel called Streetcraft is really satisfying: Overview of a road diet: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/34BFwpgIpHk Fixing a crazy intersection: https:&
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> there’s only so many times you are willing to let a human wrecking ball into your life. I understand this deeply. On the other hand, I do believe that community is essential for a good life (for 99%+ of people). It's a struggle fo
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Ay, there's the rub. Professional video makes tend to be pushed into making videos for a more general audience, and niche topics are left to first-timers who haven't developed video-making skills and (tend to) go on and on. I&#x27
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Youtube can be excellent for explanations. A picture's worth a thousand words, and you can fit a lot of decent pictures in a 20 minute video. The signal-to-noise can be high, of course.
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The hard-coded dictionary wouldn't be much stranger than Brotli's: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27160590
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I think there's some good advice on this thread. Your issue definitely resonates with me, college was very lonely for me as well. HN itself doesn't lend itself to continued conversation (long threads lose their [reply] button and
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I've had some success with Meetup (tech meetups specifically). The app/site is terrible though and I think the fees on organizers can be hefty nowadays, so look on the Meetup alternatives, since there might be groups posted to tho
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You can click characters to show who they are, as well.
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That's one reason I don't like to drink. I can moderate myself (I don't like being inebriated at all), but some around me are active or recovering alcoholics. So why drink in front of them? A recovering family member told me
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[ Data-Oriented Design – Richard Fabian ] DoD is an interesting design philosophy used in game engine design. This book was both quite concrete and quite abstract, so I walked away not exactly sure if I got the message, but the idea of mode
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I used to use these and a big table to simulate Stalingrad and other WWII battles. Popsicle sticks laid together as half-destroyed floorboards, and of course I had a lot of army guys to position around.
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Haha yes. Well, I'm pretty sure most pro swimmers are very lean and muscular (ie. not buoyant), so that's not the whole story. I was decent enough at swimming but never great at floating.
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The man in the article had a similar problem: > While they admitted the dynamic had its difficulties, including battling Ronnie's gambling addiction for 20 years, they couldn't imagine their lives without him.
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I swam a lot as a kid as my mother was a lifeguard and instructor. Despite that, I was never amazing at it, probably because I was lean and had no buoyancy, but I loved it a lot. I swam for the first time in years a few months ago, and was
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I always wanted a reason to learn C, but couldn't figure out a good project for it. I ended up learning TempleOS' HolyC as my introduction to low-level programming, funnily enough. If you're familiar with web programming and
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I've started re-writing things I like, like passages from books, poems, or even comments. Perhaps too early to say whether it's been effective, but this is called "copywork" and was apparently a common part of education
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One can simply employ 'one' if one fears not the air of pretentiousness.
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Depends on what you mean by calm. I like this article from a Math Academy developer (his writing is great, the site I have mixed feelings about currently): https://www.justinmath.com/why-is-the-edtech-industry-so-dam...
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You just bumped it up by mentioning it ;)
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Gordon Ramsey (in one of his failing restaurant tear-down shows) said that pictures on menus meant the food was shit, and to axe them. He's coming from fine dining, of course, but I couldn't disagree more. Sometimes a lot of the m
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Funny, I don't seem to need an outage to get stuck in a HN loop...
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I saw the great Canadian raconteur Stuart McLean perform a year or so before his death. He wrote and read aloud The Vinyl Cafe, a mostly-comedic radio show about a fictional Canadian family. I was at one of the live recordings, and it was s

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