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by jfk13 3y ago
Ah, good times.... we used to do similar things across the HP Apollo workstations at the place where a friend of mine worked (and I unofficially "borrowed" computing facilities for a project of my own -- though I did also contribu
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by jfk13 3y ago
Yes, I suppose it could be taken that way. I wasn't intending to argue one way or the other, merely to point out that such an apparently simple condition ("if someone understands...") actually encompasses a huge amount of unc
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by jfk13 3y ago
And how do we assess whether "someone understands the risk"? Often, I suspect nobody really "understands" the risk of some minimally-tested, experimental treatment.
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by jfk13 3y ago
Well, those are pretty controversial topics, so I'm not sure how much the analogy helps.
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by jfk13 3y ago
https://www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/critical-thinking-health/m...
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by jfk13 3y ago
Do you have trouble with "n" vs "u"? How about "b", "d", "p", "q"?
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by jfk13 3y ago
Surprised no-one has mentioned Betteridge's Law of Headlines yet.
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by jfk13 3y ago
> Harfbuzz is used in Firefox, Chrome and Safari for example Not to dispute harfbuzz's significance -- it's a crucial component of much of the software we use every day -- but are you sure about Safari? I thought it relied on A
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by jfk13 3y ago
Yes, a well-engineered font should handle the interaction better -- probably the easiest approach would be to ensure that case-substitution subtables are ordered ahead of ligature subtables. (Though as cobertos noted, the author could have
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by jfk13 3y ago
We already found out, I think.
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by jfk13 3y ago
> Obviously within reason Oh, so you don't really mean "when all copyright is out of the window", I guess. So.... how are we going to define "within reason"?
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by jfk13 3y ago
> If other companies are willing to pay more for the ads, then your product/business/marketing isn't as good as theirs Or maybe you just don't have as much venture capital to burn. Do we really want to live in a world
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by jfk13 3y ago
See also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16763092 (5 years ago, 10 comments)
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by jfk13 3y ago
> A bit too simple Why do you say that -- are there particular capabilities it is lacking?
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by jfk13 3y ago
Indeed, it was the standard plate issued for several years (2010-2016). You could also pay a $20 fee to change from an existing plate to the 1812 commemorative one. https://web.archive.org/web/20101128031616/http
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by jfk13 3y ago
Yes! To me, Sindhri is in a class of its own. No mango I had in India could ever match the Queen of Mangoes from Mirpurkhas at the height of the season.
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by jfk13 3y ago
Last I checked (though it's been a while), I think tectonic basically wrapped the xetex code.
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by jfk13 3y ago
Sounds like you know why you "failed", so you could easily adjust your responses to "pass" if you wished.
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by jfk13 3y ago
I was disappointed that "waves" didn't (quite) work.
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by jfk13 3y ago
> a general digital intellect That's a pretty bold claim.
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by jfk13 3y ago
This is an awesome piece of work - congratulations! I notice you're using OpenType-SVG here; have you investigated whether it would be possible to implement this using COLRv1 (which would potentially result in a lighter-weight font, I
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by jfk13 3y ago
> All Gaul comprises three parts -> Three parts are comprised of all Gaul. No, that doesn't work. You could, however, say "Gaul is comprised of three parts". https://www.englishclub.com/vocabulary/c
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by jfk13 3y ago
That link isn't available in my country, apparently. Alternative source: https://www.einnews.com/pr_news/630376275/first-class-action... Presumably the same article, as it has the same weird hyphenation in th
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Discord plans to make everyone change their username(bbc.co.uk)
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by jfk13 3y ago
Yes, my kids had debit cards too. But not credit cards; those have a minimum age of 18.
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by jfk13 3y ago
> I can purchase alcohol from Amazon UK with no obvious age checks Using your UK credit card? If so, that's an age check in itself.
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by jfk13 3y ago
> Firefox continues to be written in C++ The amount of Rust code in Firefox is pretty substantial, and growing. Did you expect an instant rewrite?
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by jfk13 3y ago
Which is trivial, with hindsight. Less so in the moment. You could equally well pick three failures, and end up with close to nothing.
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by jfk13 3y ago
...except that the `uppercase` function would be wrong for everyone else.
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> what matters isn't change but the RATE of change And also direction of change. Not all change is for the better. There is not one possible future, there are many; but only one will happen. We have some agency in determining its sh

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