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by dhosek 4mo ago
Don’t worry, I’ll enter your real name for you.
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by dhosek 4mo ago
So despite publishing a lot of fiction and poetry I’m apparently most well known for my contributions to the TeX, LaTeX and typography communities. It also thinks I’m a professional athlete having played professional baseball hockey and bas
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by dhosek 4mo ago
I’ve noticed that Apple does a pretty good job of detecting when I switch between English and Spanish typing on my Mac. On my phone/iPad it tends to defer to the keyboard (I have a default English/Spanish keyboard I use the most,
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by dhosek 4mo ago
Long press on the iPhone used to (maybe still does?) omit ý on the long press for y and I think some other uncommon Czech diacriticals and I had to add a Czech keyboard to type those, but the other changes around that keyboard were really a
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by dhosek 4mo ago
A lot depends on using a national keyboard. I use ABC - Extended as my default keyboard and turn off long press because I don’t like it, since I’d rather type ş with opt-c s and ñ with opt-n n (I’d say I type maybe 85% English, 14% Spanish
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by dhosek 4mo ago
When I was working at the computing center at University of Illinois at Chicago in the 80s, we found a fairly simple route to spoofing emails from other users through batch jobs on the MVS side of our mainframe. It came crashing to a halt w
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by dhosek 4mo ago
I both love and hate the 90s web design of the page. Looking through my local area (Chicago near-west suburbs), it appears to be missing two airfields that used to be nearby: Cicero Field (which is mentioned but not listed) and another one
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by dhosek 4mo ago
But the name of the game is, “ Don’t whiz on the electric fence”!
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by dhosek 4mo ago
A lot of our software really depends on things like fast disks and significant memory. I think we might have ended up with the development of memory-constrained algorithms that don’t exist now, and computing would be very much a batch-mode
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by dhosek 4mo ago
Berke Breathed should have taken their example more seriously.
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by dhosek 4mo ago
I model my parenting style on Calvin’s dad. I actually had almost the identical conversation with my kids about why old pictures are in black and white. When they were in fourth grade my daughter came home from school angry at me about havi
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by dhosek 4mo ago
I have the same issue your mom does. First-person shooters give me motion sickness (which is why I never got past the first level of Wolfenstein back in the day). Maybe the newer FPS games would be better for my brain, but I don’t have much
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by dhosek 4mo ago
Thankfully we’ve moved past that era. Now the bugs that get ignored for new features cause bad results AND bad performance.
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by dhosek 4mo ago
16 bits? Luxury. I had 6 colors when I was a kid and was happy to have them.
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by dhosek 4mo ago
I had to look to see whether this was NewsCorp Fox or Disney Fox. In the 00s I did some contract work at Fox Filmed Entertainment (the part of the company later bought by Disney) which was introduced during interviews as Fox Filmed Entertai
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by dhosek 4mo ago
Also worth noting that unlike Arabic and Islam, the Jewish tradition is that Hebrew is in fact the language of God and was the pre-Babel language.
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by dhosek 4mo ago
Nope, not at all. Monotype had a special system for doing math in hot metal typesetting. With handset type it was possible, but very time-consuming. You can find typeset mathematics going back centuries before the computer. There were also
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by dhosek 4mo ago
Not really. The selective pressure really comes well before that: Tabular presentation of numbers, whether that was log/trig tables or railroad time tables, there was a preference for uniform-width and regular height characters for tho
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by dhosek 4mo ago
The complexities of mixed LR and RL text are quite astonishing since it’s not really even a case of just switching modes when switching scripts since double-nested (or more) texts can change the semantics of line breaks. This article provid
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by dhosek 4mo ago
Huh? Overleaf supports XeTeX out of the box. The LaTeX project, incidentally has been moving towards requiring LuaTeX as the engine (also supported in Overleaf). The pdftex engine is pretty much a dead end these days and I would only recomm
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by dhosek 4mo ago
I don’t use Windows so I don’t have advertisements on my desktop. I have had very little friction with using MacOS for development.
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by dhosek 4mo ago
Oh, it’s been a long time since I’ve watched the movie. Unlike I&II it does not bear rewatching, so I’m going by a memory of watching this for the first time in the 80s, probably on TV.
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by dhosek 4mo ago
On the other hand, your “us” is not very big compared to your “not us.” I like Linux as a server OS (and would pick it over Windows or MacOS for that any day of the week that ends in y), but as a desktop OS it’s just more work than I care t
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by dhosek 4mo ago
One of the great onscreen code moments was in Superman III ¹ where Richard Pryors’ character has written some “impossible” program and when the listing is shown on screen it’s pretty much five screens of BASIC REM statements. ⸻ 1. A movie
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by dhosek 4mo ago
In case you’re not joking, London Bridge was purchased an American entrepreneur in 1968 and rebuilt in the city of Lake Havasu, Arizona. There is a persistent rumor that he thought he was buying the Tower Bridge, but in contemporaneous news
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by dhosek 4mo ago
I remember the day I decided to finally go see the London Bridge and I drove over it three times trying to find it.
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by dhosek 4mo ago
This was the choice that Knuth made in TeX and Metafont although it’s also at least in part because floating point implementations in the late 70s/early 80s were so inconsistent from one platform to the next that using native floating
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by dhosek 4mo ago
The last real graphic programming¹ I’ve done was in the late 80s targeting the Tektronics graphics mode of the Kermit terminal software on the PC.² It was all pretty much clear the screen and draw solid rectangles in 1-bit black and white.
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by dhosek 4mo ago
Also, just to make sure that I’ve done what you wanted, I will now brick your phone. You’re welcome.
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by dhosek 4mo ago
A few years ago, the ability to do anything other than a timed walk on my watch with Siri broke. I used to be able to do things like say, “start a 3 mile walk” or “start a 200 calorie walk” and then the latter stopped working and then the f

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