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901.
by jfk13 6y ago
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/pdf/10.2307/1512847
902.
by jfk13 6y ago
On the other hand, if building were entirely unregulated, I'm not sure how long it would remain a desirable place to live.
903.
by jfk13 6y ago
Why not Firefox? The current release has native arm64 code, and AFAICT runs fine.
904.
by jfk13 6y ago
> There's no way to prevent the former Of course there is. Make invasive tracking and targeting practices illegal, and aggressively penalize violators, and the business model would change.
905.
by jfk13 6y ago
As it happens, an article related to this came up just a couple of weeks ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25246857
906.
by jfk13 6y ago
Could just use "country".
907.
by jfk13 6y ago
> Anybody can have an accident at any speed that could lead to a fatality Sure, but do you really think the risk of having an accident, and if so, the risk of it resulting in a fatality, has no relationship to the speed involved? We acce
908.
by jfk13 6y ago
> at the discretion of the driver Doesn't the cyclist get a say? Or the pedestrian? Why should just the driver get to decide how much risk to impose on everyone else?
909.
by jfk13 6y ago
Shouldn't the abbreviations be unique? I see two "Ac"s...
910.
by jfk13 6y ago
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25390941 for earlier discussion.
911.
by jfk13 6y ago
And where's the list of everyone who spent hundreds/thousands of hours building an online business .... and in the end, got nothing?
912.
by jfk13 6y ago
If there's a write-in option for "race" on these things, I'd recommend putting "human".
913.
by jfk13 6y ago
> The inventors of DNT wanted to look good without actually changing anything I don't believe that's a fair characterisation at all. The inventors of DNT may have been over-optimistic about potential adoption, but the intention
914.
by jfk13 6y ago
...unless "Betty Cass" is a two-word, non-hyphenated surname. Yes, they also exist.
915.
by jfk13 6y ago
That's certainly not correct; while it is much closer to bug-free than most software, there have been numerous fixes since the original release (as well as a few enhancements). See https://ctan.org/tex-archive/syst
916.
by jfk13 6y ago
Yes, but the bulk of its code is the original TeX code, from 1984. It did not attempt to reimplement or modernise the core code. Until a few years ago, it was even still built from tex.web plus a set of change-files plus some C/C++ lib
917.
by jfk13 6y ago
Personally, I think this approach -- which as far as the engine is concerned looks like a largely-automated "translation" of xetex from C/C++ to Rust -- is misguided. The xetex code is a byzantine tangle of disparate pieces t
918.
Hayabusa-2: Japan asteroid sample lands safely on Earth(bbc.co.uk)
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919.
by jfk13 6y ago
The tree takes up a bunch of space. The ashes are more compact.
920.
by jfk13 6y ago
I've also been enjoying the view from the UK (weather permitting). I don't have a telescope on hand, but realised this autumn that my camera -- nothing special, just a Panasonic bridge camera -- could clearly pick out the four mai
921.
by jfk13 6y ago
In theory, it's legible; but often, rendering the icon name (which may be up to a dozen letters or so) will totally break a layout that was designed to accommodate a single glyph.
922.
by jfk13 6y ago
The risk of paying for time is that the worker may deliberately (or even subconsciously) take longer than necessary to get things done.
923.
by jfk13 6y ago
Actually, I think there are three categories, not two. If you pay someone to get a job done, that's a contractor. If you pay someone for their hours worked, that's an hourly-waged employee. If you pay someone a salary, you're
924.
by jfk13 6y ago
Do we really want to invite a couple of browser vendors to set the course of typographic design for the next few decades?
925.
by jfk13 6y ago
I've definitely seen use of src:local(...) in the CSS served by Google Fonts in the past, but they may have changed things, or perhaps it depends on details of the request, the detected browser, etc. YMMV.
926.
by jfk13 6y ago
That'd break sites that use ligature-based icon fonts, with the actual content being an icon identifier like "thumbs-up" and an OpenType ligature rule in the font to render this as an icon glyph.
927.
by jfk13 6y ago
Yes - after all, it makes the font resource smaller. (And if the designer is working on a Mac, they won't notice any difference.)
928.
by jfk13 6y ago
It depends. In Firefox, disabling "Allow pages to choose their own fonts" does not completely block web fonts (as setting gfx.downloadable_fonts.enabled to false would); what it does is to prioritise the default fonts, and move an
929.
by jfk13 6y ago
Yes, it's just a container for the exact same data that an OpenType font holds. On the other hand, it's possible that in the course of deployment, various things may be dropped from the original font resource: not just subsetting
930.
by jfk13 6y ago
Not to mention the energy consumption involved in hovering instead of being supported by the ground.

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