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by jfk13 6y ago
I'd be curious how this compares with the encoding_rs crate ( https://github.com/hsivonen/encoding_rs ), which also offers UTF-8 validation (among many other things).
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by jfk13 6y ago
They don't have "a few cm depth", according to the page; it's "11.5 millimeters thin".
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by jfk13 6y ago
1080p is plenty for video calls (in my opinion). It's not like you're going to be using an iMac for serious photography.
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by jfk13 6y ago
I have the impression that submission votes only count half of what comment votes count, or something along those lines.
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by jfk13 6y ago
14? Hah.... a mere youngster. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=92176 was close to 20 years old when it recently got fixed. (Pretty sure I've seen even older issues eventually get fixed, but don't recal
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by jfk13 6y ago
The "outdoor experiences" my cats enjoy are not experiences they could have on a leash. Yes, they sometimes kill things; most commonly mice and shrews. The local rodent population seems resilient enough to cope. But the joy Catast
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by jfk13 6y ago
No, the next toss still has a 60% chance of being heads. The coin doesn't remember how it landed last time.
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by jfk13 6y ago
> the HEROES act Does anyone else cringe at this American obsession with naming acts of congress so as to create "inspirational" acronyms?
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by jfk13 6y ago
> Yet somehow the sum total of their activity results in a conscious being That seems like a slightly peculiar idea of what a conscious being is.
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by jfk13 6y ago
And how do you feel about the use of "he" as a generic pronoun in reference to an individual of undetermined gender? That has also been well established in English for centuries.
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by jfk13 6y ago
Something like the UK's Child Benefit? https://www.gov.uk/child-benefit
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by jfk13 6y ago
> As long as we are all free to be the founders or the employees But we're not. Much of it comes down to the simple lottery of the circumstances into which you were born. If you have an inherited trust fund, or wealthy parents and f
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by jfk13 6y ago
> I want to call out the ordinance survey for making their data available Nit-picking: it's "ordnance", not "ordinance". They're not interchangeable, even though they share a common origin.
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by jfk13 6y ago
Miss Manners begs to differ.
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by jfk13 6y ago
> According to the bug tracker the plan is to run an experiment There's a bug on file suggesting an experiment. Whether there is a plan to actually run one is another matter. (I don't know the answer; just wanted to point out t
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by jfk13 6y ago
Nor on desktop (macOS) Safari.
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by jfk13 6y ago
I would expect "sound money" to have a fairly stable, predictable value in terms of real-world goods and services for which it can be exchanged. I haven't observed that to be the case for Bitcoin. Being "at the whims of
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by jfk13 6y ago
> Some people live in counties with capital controls that means they see their wealth disappear year after year. So the purpose of cryptocurrency here is to enable people to evade the laws of the society in which they live? Not sure I ca
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by jfk13 6y ago
We have no idea what kind of "whole brain emulation" it would take to produce what we understand as intelligence, so all this seems highly speculative.
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by jfk13 6y ago
The CSS text-emphasis property seems to work in both Safari and Firefox: data:text/html,<div style="font:16px monospace; text-emphasis:red filled circle">Hello World Unfortunately it doesn't seem to be supported in
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by jfk13 6y ago
Works for me with clang -std=c89 -Wno-implicit-function-declaration -fno-builtin tbr.c Compilers are fussier (with good reason!) than they used to be.
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by jfk13 6y ago
Great work! Is there any link between this and the Pepys Diary site at https://www.pepysdiary.com (also an awesome resource)?
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by jfk13 6y ago
"I ... want to display them having the same size" is too vague to be useful. Do you mean having the same x-height (the main body of the lowercase letters, assuming Latin script)? Or the same cap-height? Or the same ascender height
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by jfk13 6y ago
It's just a "z" with a ton of combining diacritics. Which is entirely irrelevant. x-height is a dimension of the font, it's nothing to do with an individual character. (In most Latin fonts, it'll match the height of
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by jfk13 6y ago
Do you really see a clear cap-height (and baseline, to measure it from) here? https://software.sil.org/awami/design/ Or look at Thai: https://omniglot.com/writing/thai.htm . Yes, there's
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by jfk13 6y ago
> The main issue I have as I get older is that as the resolution increases the text size seems to get smaller Most operating systems provide options for you to address that, by adjusting a scaling factor used by the display system.
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by jfk13 6y ago
Who's angry? I just pointed out that the proposed "solution" has some shortcomings that didn't appear to have been considered at all. OK, a more inclusive solution: how about sizing fonts based on a coordinate space with
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by jfk13 6y ago
ༀ is U+0F00 TIBETAN SYLLABLE OM.
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by jfk13 6y ago
Are you explicitly using a linked/embedded font resource, so that you control exactly what font is used to render the text? If not, there's certainly no expectation of uniformity.
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by jfk13 6y ago
Ah, yes... the good ol' days when changing your selected printer driver could also cause Word to reflow your entire document (because it affected the font metrics) and suddenly your carefully-tuned page breaks and figure placements wer

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