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The hinting of Times Newer Roman is completely different, a lot fuzzier, and leads to inconsistent letter heights. On Linux (with TTF bytecode enabled) I can easily see the difference at their sample "side-by-side comparison". May
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Are the arrays untyped? If all enemies are the the same struct with various data components (state, speed, etc.), how would you implement different behaviors based on enemy type ? Function pointers/references? Does the game loop have
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I'm utterly disappointed in the lack of screencast GUI content or 2D pixel games. In a playlist designed to be representative of popular Youtube content, this serves to show how video codecs are purposefully neglecting 2D pixel content
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>the best MIDI player written in C (libtimidity) Ouch. Has timidity fixed the issue where playing 2 of the same note in sequence cuts off the release tail of the first note when the second starts? Fluidsynth is written in C and doesn
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8y ago
"Drivers tests in the US are a joke." is referring to arbitrary driving tests, and implies any driving test (including the two I failed) is a joke.
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The original comment is ignorant and insulting, since it's implying I'm incompetent enough to have failed a joke of a test twice.
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That you think it's easy to pass drivers tests in the US is a joke.
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Fixed title: "A Parasitic Vine That Slowly Sucks the Life Out of Wasp Galls"
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>Mastodon lets you or your moderators decide to block entire instances If your instance operator blocks another instance, are they effectively banning you from following or viewing anyone on the other instance? That would be very stifli
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Hiw many years has it been, and Wikipedia Mobile still has the bug where pressing Back loses your downwards scrolling, since all sections contract momentarily (moving your page position upwards).
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>avoid linear scripting as an exploratory technique What do you recommend instead for exploratory {data analysis? science?}