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by jfk13 2y ago
Seems to me that a post about this algorithm really should have included a mention of Metafont.
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by jfk13 2y ago
It already did that for an empty title; the issue was with a title that was not empty, but contained only invisible Unicode characters (there are a number of such -- Unicode is very extensive and flexible). (Min-width is also already
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by jfk13 3y ago
I don't recall that one, and I thought I knew Gerald Durrell's work pretty thoroughly. There is a book of that title by Tim Cahill, though; maybe that's what you're remembering?
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by jfk13 3y ago
> The hotspot for the arrow cursor was not (0,0) but was (1,1). > Can anyone explain why? My assumption (not having an old Mac or documentation to confirm it...) is that the tip of the cursor had to be at (1, 1) to allow for a pixel&#
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by jfk13 3y ago
Curious; it looks like his background is New England. In my mind the use of letters (can't really call them initials) as the actual name is a pattern that's more associated with the South of the US. Whether to include periods and&
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by jfk13 3y ago
Or a printer company controlling the ink you put in your printer? Unthinkable! Oh, wait...
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by jfk13 3y ago
Yeah, not particularly surprising, but also not good. What's striking to me is the second half of the graph, where we seem to quite abruptly go from being "among the warmest years, but not exceptional" to "way above anyt
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2023 confirmed as hottest year on record(bbc.co.uk)
16 points by jfk13 3y ago|3 comments
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by jfk13 3y ago
> One example: I've always wanted to do a motorcycle tour around Scandinavia, particularly Norway, but it's a heck of a ride from Calais all the way up there. Hah, that brings back memories: in the early 80s I did a bike ( not
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by jfk13 3y ago
Interesting that they're a "private seller" on eBay, although seem to actually have quite a business going... https://www.concordemem.com
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by jfk13 3y ago
> ...it led to a flood of AI-generated nudity... And no-one could possibly have guessed that would happen?
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Twitch U-turns on 'artistic nudity' policy(bbc.co.uk)
1 points by jfk13 3y ago|1 comments
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by jfk13 3y ago
But "halfway to six" should be three, surely? (Sorry!) As a British person who learned Swedish -- which also uses that convention -- around the age of 10, I often found myself a little uncertain when hearing "half six" i
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by jfk13 3y ago
The wikipedia article seems quite US-centric, but for those of us in other parts of the world, there are likely to be resources available if you search, both online and in print. My inspiration as a child was L. Hugh Newman's Create a
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by jfk13 3y ago
> the web doesn't provide it in sufficient quantity and quality Do you seriously think that "an AI-generated encyclopedia" would provide a better-quality training set? What would the "AI generator's" article
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by jfk13 3y ago
> People of the past lived happier, more in peace and more fulfilling years of life than modern people That's a pretty broad claim. How far back is "the past" that was so much better? Which people did you have in mind? The
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by jfk13 3y ago
Ah, viaducts! We have a wonderful one not far away, too: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ouse_Valley_Viaduct#/media/Fil...
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by jfk13 3y ago
> anybody that maintains close ties with their family and lives with them is a wholesome person Alternative possibility: the family's a cult.
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by jfk13 3y ago
Yes, exactly: it looks like a highly stylised rendering of al-Khwārizmī (الخوارزمي or something like that.... spelling may not be entirely standardised), repeated 4 times at 90° rotations.
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by jfk13 3y ago
Odd; it works for me in Firefox (tried both the current Release version and latest Nightly).
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by jfk13 3y ago
To set an example for the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.
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by jfk13 3y ago
When I was at university, my workaround was to patch the relevant bytes in the saved file to reset the timestamp. (Made even more convenient by running it via a wrapper script that automatically zeroed the timestamp on exit.)
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by jfk13 3y ago
Ah, "do not staple, bend or fold"....that brings back some memories: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pTGf6Yw-1g
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by jfk13 3y ago
> One of the students did have an unusually large program punched on cards and they dropped the deck in the hallway Maybe they hadn't learned that the first thing to do when you've just punched a large deck is to take a fat mar
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by jfk13 3y ago
True; though for a counterexample, may I introduce you to TeX? Over 4 decades, and still in wide use. Sure, there's been maintenance over the years, one significant version update (TeX 3.0 in 1990) and an ever-evolving ecosystem around
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by jfk13 3y ago
UK
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by jfk13 3y ago
These US fees always seem astonishingly high to me. Here, something more like 1.5% would be typical.
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by jfk13 3y ago
That Oxford example, at least, does have a "get in lane" sign[1] as you approach up the Woodstock Road, so any driver intending to go straight ahead on the A44 should know to use the right-hand lane to enter the roundabout. But of
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by jfk13 3y ago
I thought this looked familiar... a couple of previous discussions: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27319540 (32 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21249792 (66 comments)
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by jfk13 3y ago
The formal name of the Unicode character U+0040 '@' is, in fact, COMMERCIAL AT. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/At_sign#Unicode

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