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by mark-r 5y ago
Unfortunately copyright is still a thing. Not sure if anybody from IBM would notice, but would you want the risk of having a bunch of IBM lawyers showing up on your doorstep?
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by mark-r 5y ago
Probably all of the above, plus one: at a certain scale it costs less to have your own font than to license someone else's. I'm not aware of a VC-backed company that has joined the trend, do you have an example?
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by mark-r 5y ago
Lots of large companies do their own fonts. Not only does it allow them to get a unique branding look, but it can be cheaper than getting and keeping all the necessary licenses for an existing font. Generally the actual font design is far
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by mark-r 5y ago
At least this should free up some capacity on the lines that make SSD controller chips.
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by mark-r 5y ago
I see someone changed the link, thank you.
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Rocket startup's Florida launch debut ends in ocean crash(apnews.com)
2 points by mark-r 5y ago|1 comments
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by mark-r 5y ago
I'd argue that the people correctly handling encodings in Python 2 were vastly outnumbered by the people that weren't, but were getting away with it because the code didn't outright crash. Now in Python 3 it crashes, which i
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by mark-r 5y ago
Thanks for making me feel old.
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by mark-r 5y ago
And off-by-one errors.
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by mark-r 5y ago
Code page 65001 has existed for a long time now, but it was discouraged because there were a lot of corner cases that didn't work. Did they finally get all the kinks out of it?
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by mark-r 5y ago
Someone needs to introduce them to Donald Knuth.
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by mark-r 5y ago
The only guarantee that C gives you is that sizeof char == 1, and even that's not as useful as it looks.
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by mark-r 5y ago
When Windows adopted Unicode, I think the only encoding available was UCS-2. They converted pretty quickly to UTF-16 though, and I think the same is true of everybody else who started with UCS-2. Unfortunately UTF-16 has its own set of ha
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by mark-r 5y ago
Wearing your arms out wouldn't be a problem in a bakery that's properly equipped, there are machines for that. I can definitely see the use case in a coffee shop though.
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by mark-r 5y ago
Nothing at all, and in fact there's a site set up specifically to advocate for this: https://utf8everywhere.org/ The biggest problem is when you're working in an ecosystem that uses a different encoding and you&#x
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by mark-r 5y ago
UTF-8 is one of the most brilliant things I've ever seen. I only wish it had been invented and caught on before so many influential bodies started using UCS-2 instead.
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by mark-r 5y ago
I still remember the jingle from the Camel ads on TV, which were outlawed in 1971.
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by mark-r 5y ago
Why would a bakery use nitrous oxide for whipped cream instead of the old fashioned way, actual whipping?
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by mark-r 5y ago
Was it the letterforms that bothered them, or the curled yellow paper?
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by mark-r 5y ago
Yes it is. But nobody said anything about rounding!
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by mark-r 5y ago
This was a lot more thorough and in-depth than I expected it to be. But that's Raymond Chen for you. One of the reasons I love Python is that integers never overflow, so this becomes a trivial problem.
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by mark-r 5y ago
Uninteresting depends on your perspective. For anyone old enough to have used a Teletype certainly it is no mystery, but how many of us are left? Speaking of, a Teletype didn't understand anything outside of the ASCII range. So what
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by mark-r 5y ago
Ottawa Canada did exactly this, creating a green belt in 1956. It appears to still be there. I wonder if anyone has done a benefits analysis?
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by mark-r 5y ago
I think the argument they're making is that comets aren't as inhospitable as assumed, and in fact were better suited than primordial Earth - so life started there first.
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by mark-r 5y ago
And now you've pointed out a hole in my mp3 collection, thanks! I have the CD but somehow forgot to rip the song.
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by mark-r 5y ago
I saw a link to this in a discussion of another topic, I'm glad somebody pushed it to the top level. Definitely worth the read.
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by mark-r 5y ago
No, because I'm the one they would have been asking for the appropriate labels and they would have accepted them without question. There was a direct correlation between each switch and a board feature originally, so making up labels
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by mark-r 5y ago
That was exactly the case here, I was asked for the switch description so the documentation folks could complete the user manual. It was just lucky that the switches weren't controlling the hardware directly.
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by mark-r 5y ago
I was thinking of putting the text file on a USB memory stick, so you could continue to waste the USB port. You could probably pick up an old obsolete one for less than the BOM of this project.
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by mark-r 5y ago
This would have backfired on one project I worked on. Near the end of the project I was asked to document the working of the DIP switches. I discovered that the settings were too complex, I couldn't document it in any way that would

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