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   by jfk13 4y ago

   Hah, reminds me of when my university account was going to be closed down (this would've been in the early 80s), and I had some files I wanted to preserve. So one evening, I sent them to the card punch, and then lugged the resulting bo
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   by jfk13 4y ago

   But only for Latin/Greek/Cyrillic scripts; it makes no claim to be a pan-Unicode font (family).
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   by jfk13 4y ago

   Browsers will generally do "fallback" to some other font, if the font(s) named in the CSS don't support the characters present in the text. But for some of the rarer characters, you may not have any available font that suppor
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   by jfk13 4y ago

   Thanks for taking the time to add an encouraging comment.
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   by jfk13 4y ago

   The "length" of a string in extended grapheme clusters is not stable across Unicode versions, which seems like a recipe for confusion. The length in code units is unambiguous and constant across versions.
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   by jfk13 4y ago

   I remember reading Robert Manry's Tinkerbelle [1] as a child, and ever since have had something of a fascination with the idea of sailing solo; although at my now-fairly-advanced age I accept that I'm going to keep my ambitions s
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   by jfk13 4y ago

   Seems like this should have been posted as "Show HN"?
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   by jfk13 4y ago

   It's not that clear-cut. If you enter that 11-code-unit emoji into a field that has maxLength=10, and the browser lets you do so, but the backend system that receives the data only stores 10 code units, you're worse off -- because
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   by jfk13 4y ago

   Maybe. That's not how it reads to me: "I have a daughter ... and I get to live ... And [implied I ] might try ..." But if I misinterpreted the comment, I apologize.
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    by jfk13 4y ago

    At what point (precisely) does it become a person and gain rights? Does it have to have entirely exited the birth canal, or is it enough that the head has begun to be visible, or what?
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    by jfk13 4y ago

    "My religion requires me to breastfeed my infant naturally."
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    by jfk13 4y ago

    The C++ experts here will be able to confirm, but if my memory serves, I think the story about virtual destructors doesn't make sense: > Specifically, the class had a virtual destructor, but the derived class failed to declare its o
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    by jfk13 4y ago

    $12 a month , or nearly $150 a year?! Wow... how much "customer support" do they expect the average person to need in the course of a year?
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    by jfk13 4y ago

    Well... supposing I did have a bit of garden left, I might like to enjoy it in peace without hearing a constant noise of machinery.
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    by jfk13 4y ago

    As a Briton, I can't help thinking that once the unit is in place, with its double-wall sandbag enclosure (including 4' service space), I won't have any garden left.
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    by jfk13 4y ago

    UK here: My brother and my 3 (adult, independent) kids all seem to manage fine without cars, and have done so for years. Only one of them lives in London, the others in much smaller places. Sure, there are plenty of areas where it would be
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    by jfk13 4y ago

    I could say the same about the hammer in my toolbox. So?
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    by jfk13 4y ago

    Discussion last week: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34705662
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    by jfk13 4y ago

    > If you absolutely need form-filling FWIW, I believe pdf.js has some support for forms nowadays, though I haven't used it personally/don't know how complete it is. https://blog.mozilla.org/attack-and-defen
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    by jfk13 4y ago

    Per BBC report[1]: > Specialists started the process by using a robot to cut the fuse and trigger at about 17:30 GMT on Thursday, but abandoned this when water from the cutting process destabilised part of the sand barrier. > A decisi
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    by jfk13 4y ago

    Interesting. I feel like it's something I've only seen very occasionally - I don't remember when I last noticed one. Maybe you just have a much higher density of traffic lights where you live, which would make it more commo
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    by jfk13 4y ago

    Wow ... how often do traffic lights break in your city?!
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    by jfk13 4y ago

    This is interesting: > However, the impact of salinity on the difference in sea level between the Atlantic and Pacific sides of the Panama Canal is also relatively small, as differences in salinity in the canal are primarily caused by fr
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    by jfk13 4y ago

    Mildly interesting to note that (a) there aren't 100 words in that list, and (b) there are a number of duplicates.
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    by jfk13 4y ago

    > Did they actually die in higher percentages than regular footsoldiers? Yes, as noted (with references) in some of the sibling comments here.
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    by jfk13 4y ago

    See also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34641549 .
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    by jfk13 4y ago

    It looks like the Eton figures for WW1 are 1157 died, out of 5660 who served in the war; just over 20%. That's a lot higher than the overall British death rate of 12.5% of those who served (from https://www.parliament.uk&#x2
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    by jfk13 4y ago

    Maybe take a look at https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10334679-six-weeks
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    by jfk13 4y ago

    And yet I'd rather hear what the living human beings have to say. They may write poorly, but at least they have actual thoughts and ideas -- no matter how misguided or bizarre -- that they're trying to communicate.
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    by jfk13 4y ago

    Australia: the country where not only the wildlife but even the gravel on the road is out to kill you!