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by dghf 10mo ago
Wasn't it originally intended for signage, advertising, titles, other display text, etc., rather than for body text?
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by dghf 10mo ago
The early books in particular are Austen with sailing, swearing, and sex.
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by dghf 10mo ago
As others have said, Times New Roman was specifically designed for newspapers : * condensed glyph widths, for ease of setting in narrow columns * high x-heights and short ascenders and descenders, so lines can be set tighter and more text
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by dghf 10mo ago
Originally, a font (also spelled fount, at least formerly) was a physical thing: a collection of metal slugs, each bearing the reversed shape of a letter or other symbol (a glyph, in typographical parlance). You would arrange these slugs in
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by dghf 10mo ago
If all DoS documents are prepared with the same software or software suite (e.g. MS Office), isn't that a distinction without much of a difference? They've gone back to using TNR.ttf instead of Calibri.ttf (or whatever the files a
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by dghf 10mo ago
IIRC, the British Army employed bayonet charges in Afghanistan and Iraq in the 2000s.
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by dghf 10mo ago
Similar things: * Perl MIDI::Score -- https://metacpan.org/pod/MIDI::Score * Csound standard numeric scores -- https://csound.com/docs/manual/ScoreTop.html * CsBeats (alternative score langua
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by dghf 10mo ago
What's a highlander market, or a highlander hopeful? Google wasn't helpful.
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by dghf 10mo ago
But it was never intended for 4:3. They were always in frame, just digitally removed.
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by dghf 10mo ago
> In the UK you are required by law to have working brakes on a bicycle. But are you required to have them on a unicycle?
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by dghf 10mo ago
> ccTLDs reflect the ISO country codes of each country, and are intended for use by those countries, while gTLDs are arbitrary and reflect the fact that DNS was designed in the US. The ".gov" gTLD, for example, is for use by th
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by dghf 11mo ago
More recently, the idea that the Picts conquered the Scots (which they'd done once before, in the eighth century) and adopted their language (something which they seem to have already started on) has gained ground.
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by dghf 11mo ago
I don't think having the Scoti in the northeast of what is now Scotland from 300 BC to 1 BC inclusive is right. I don't think the term appeared until ~300 AD , and it originally applied to people from Ireland: it only later came
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by dghf 11mo ago
> Let me introduce you to Colchester, the oldest recorded town in the UK. And a candidate for the location of Camelot, thanks to its Roman name, Camulodunum.
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by dghf 1y ago
The article says it's been updated. Possibly the submitted headline reflects the original version?
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by dghf 1y ago
> For those who don't know it, this is the name the department has had for most of its history Not really. It's the old name of the Department of the Army. Except for the first nine years of the DoW's existence, the Navy h
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by dghf 1y ago
So no more M*A*S*H theme-song on YouTube?
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by dghf 1y ago
For me, it was getting a laptop with a high DPI screen, and the frustrations in getting X to play nicely with that. There were annoyances when I realised I could no longer use certain workhorses (e.g. feh), but usually a bit of digging turn
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by dghf 1y ago
> 2. 'orange' has been turned from the last element of the list to a non-last element of the list Then why not consider it four changes? 3. 'banana' has been turned from the last-but-one element of the list to the las
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by dghf 1y ago
Contrarily, the problem I have with non-materialist/physicalist explanations is that they don't really seem to explain anything. If we assume dualism, that there is some non-material stuff -- call it soul or spirit or mind or psyc
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by dghf 1y ago
I believe that to be precise they check for the Today programme, the Radio 4 current-affairs slot where Cabinet ministers go to get monstered.
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by dghf 1y ago
> If the slide deck is meant to be something that can be shared around and make sense without you, it needs to have a lot of text on the slides. Then isn't that just a document? Why use a slide deck?
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by dghf 1y ago
Thank you for the cmd-shift-g tip. That will save me a lot of grief. Re your second tip: how do you navigate up? I couldn’t see an obvious way to do that, either.
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by dghf 1y ago
The difficulty in navigating to arbitrary locations in file open/save dialogs. I wanted to attach a build log to a Teams post (maybe we shouldn't be using Teams on Mac, but it's a corporate decision that's out of my hand
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by dghf 1y ago
Thank you! I was just thinking "how do I get this to display in Waybar", and now I don't have to spend time working on it. EDIT: this is particularly timely because the UK Met Office has recently announced the retirement of t
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by dghf 1y ago
The Fowler and Partridge works are both arranged alphabetically, and in each the relevant entry is headed “who and whom”. In Gowers, it is chapter 9, “The Handling of Words”, section “Troubles with Pronouns”, subsection 15, “ Who and whom
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by dghf 1y ago
Not irrelevant at all. The case of the relative pronoun is determined by its role in the relative clause, not by the role of the relative clause in the sentence as a whole. See: - H. W. Fowler, A Dictionary of Modern English Usage - Eric
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by dghf 1y ago
But on the other hand: "The book belongs to the person who purchased it last week". Not "whom". I think it is reasonable to say that the object of the to is not "who(m)ever", but the entire clause "who(m)e
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by dghf 1y ago
From 2.5. Using Who, Whom, That, and Which Correctly: > This book belongs to whomever purchased it last week. That should be "to whoever", surely? The pronoun is acting as the subject of the verb "purchased".
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by dghf 1y ago
> Hang on, slashes and year-month-day? I believe slashes are the most common separators in Japan (which uses that order), at least when explicit kanji for "year", "month" and "day" aren't used.

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