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by jfk13 6y ago
Yes, I know people do things like that (mostly on Twitter, it seems), but I wouldn't recommend it; it'll interfere with searchability, copy/paste, etc., and generally make the text less interoperable. The mathematical alphabe
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by jfk13 6y ago
> There is no way to format your text, even stuff that's available since MS Word 1.0, such as bold or italic Are you entirely sure about that?
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by jfk13 6y ago
Given how many people seem to find themselves with crippling debt, or unable to save enough of a buffer to handle unexpected (but not especially unusual) expenses, I'd be inclined to say "good". Much of the advertising indust
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by jfk13 6y ago
I haven't examined your site's code, but it sounds like you should be using the CSS Font Loading API ( https://drafts.csswg.org/css-font-loading/ ) to ensure the font(s) you want are loaded and ready, before at
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by jfk13 6y ago
The site should appear exactly the same in a fullscreen browser on a 27" desktop monitor, and on an original iPhone? That's rarely a useful goal. For a page that really needs to look "exactly the same" everywhere it&#x
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by jfk13 6y ago
Some of us, at least in the UK, remember the BSE ("mad cow disease") mess. That could have turned out very much worse than it did (though it was plenty bad already).
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by jfk13 6y ago
This reflects the fact that PDF uses the UTF-16BE encoding form for Unicode text, not UTF-8. One oddity is that the PDF spec's description of the "Text String Type", e.g. at p.158 in https://www.adobe.com/cont
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by jfk13 6y ago
> the PDF raw contents streams actually have a null character between EVERY SINGLE CHARACTER That sounds more like you're looking at UTF-16 data and trying to interpret it as ASCII.
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by jfk13 6y ago
A UTF-8 string can perfectly well contain the character U+0000, which will be encoded as a null byte 0x00. So just "leaving out the null bytes" amounts to changing the string to a different string. Sometimes that may be what you w
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Groundbreaking biofuel rocket could be 'Uber for space'(bbc.co.uk)
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by jfk13 6y ago
> And soon that will also change on macOS. You have a source for that claim?
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by jfk13 6y ago
eBay? https://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_trksid=p2380057...
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India protests: Internet cut to hunger-striking farmers in Delhi(bbc.co.uk)
218 points by jfk13 6y ago|387 comments
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GameStop and AMC: UK trading platform IG stops new trades(bbc.co.uk)
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by jfk13 6y ago
This is a pretty weak justification for what seems like it'd usually be a design gimmick. It's perfectly possible for a colour change to be accessible for the colour blind, if you do more than just modify the hue. (Extreme case: c
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by jfk13 6y ago
Whether it'll work or not for the various non-Latin scripts will depend what fallback fonts the browser happens to pick, so people's results will vary. Your jsfiddle also fails even for English in most browsers, because you didn&#
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by jfk13 6y ago
Alternatively, choose UI design ideas that don't involve changing the font weight on hover. What's wrong with changing the colour and/or background instead? Or (for an element like a button) give the element a fixed width tha
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by jfk13 6y ago
It's further down the (infinite-scrolling) page, under the title "Why Wait Three Days to Sell Stock?". Looks like much of the material there is older, but this section at least has been updated to mention the change to T+2. (
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by jfk13 6y ago
Sure, but do you think "the community at large" really makes such decisions in any meaningful way? Overwhelmingly, "the community" blindly follows a few leaders who happen to have a high profile or make the most noise in
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by jfk13 6y ago
core tenet , not tenant
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by jfk13 6y ago
> I've been told the environmental impact of human-biting mosquitoes going extinct would be minor I've heard that too. I'm pretty sure we really don't know. Our understanding of entire ecosystems isn't that compl
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by jfk13 6y ago
As a teenager, I was heavily into butterflies and moths for a while. Now, several decades later, I am back living very close to the same area, and have renewed that interest -- and although I am fortunate to live near some of the top butter
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by jfk13 6y ago
It's not just about whether you can see there's an oncoming car. For example, if you can't read the road signs ahead until a few seconds later than someone with "normal" vision, your driving will be seriously affect
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by jfk13 6y ago
> you guys have no equivalent of an "MOT" It depends on the state: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_inspection_in_the_Unit...
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by jfk13 6y ago
I'm assuming it was meant as a shortening of "spastic"? In which case the version I'm familiar with would be "spaz", though it must be years -- probably decades -- since I've run across it.
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by jfk13 6y ago
Interesting -- as a UK native, I don't recognise that. Maybe it's limited to certain regions/subcultures/???
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by jfk13 6y ago
> It’s strange that even today, people are still not aware they should be using ad blockers with as many lists as they could live with. No, it's strange (or rather, it's sad and shameful) that we've allowed the web to beco
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by jfk13 6y ago
Lynx don't browse, they hunt.
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by jfk13 6y ago
Apparently the covid pandemic has exacerbated this issue, because a lot of wild venison goes to the restaurant trade, and that market pretty much disappeared. Result: more deer overpopulation and damage to ecosystems.
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by jfk13 6y ago
Yes, a carefully selected set of 64 symbols would be much more sensible from that point of view. This project, though, apparently uses "the first 1024 emojis from [ https://unicode.org/Public/emoji/13.1/em

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