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by mmmrk 5y ago
Font projects (especially multi-script ones) can amass (tens of) thousands of small XML files in the UFO format. Rust can load and save through them in seconds, Python can't :)
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by mmmrk 5y ago
To ask the obvious, has he tried to convert the old fonts to OpenType? There are various free and proprietary tools to do that and Private Unicode Area ranges still exist.
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by mmmrk 5y ago
> Pennsylvanians have been complaining about teachers’ pension costs since 2001, when state lawmakers sweetened all state workers’ pensions — including their own — on the thinking that the bull market of the 1990s would continue indefini
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by mmmrk 6y ago
Having recently finished N. N. Taleb's "The Black Swan", I am now wary when I see Gaussian distribution concepts applied to the stock market. The numerical study code seems to use `std`, as in standard deviation, unless I&#x2
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by mmmrk 6y ago
I don't see GNOME devs going around asking people to use it? And you can do what you want on a piece of software and still have it be a "serious tool". I don't see a contradiction.
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by mmmrk 6y ago
> The maintainer is expecting attention and users Do they? The projects I maintain I do so for myself and work. > By alerting the maintainer to issues, I would be helping them Do you? I need to weight the time and effort to understand
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by mmmrk 6y ago
1. Nothing, because the maintainers have the last say because it's their time and they don't owe anyone anything 2. "Aight I step up to maintain the feature" I seriously don't understand the expectant attitude of so
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by mmmrk 6y ago
If you ever wonder why GNOME devs seem so hardnosed on issue trackers, just read comments by people demanding that they implement things users have been wanting for years :)
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by mmmrk 6y ago
I cannot comment on the soundness of the decision, but what was the deal with the community here? I can for example see that Debian is community driven with all the advantages and drawbacks that come with this, but was CentOS ever more than
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by mmmrk 6y ago
I don't use CentOS, but the negativity around this both surprises and does not surprise me. CentOS seemed like a way to get RHEL for free, lots of people jumped on that and suddenly, when it's no longer free, they throw a tantrum
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by mmmrk 6y ago
That's a separate concept, he probably means ink traps and optical size adjustments.
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by mmmrk 6y ago
And just 20 years or so later, many of the kids in the video would probably be dead :(
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by mmmrk 6y ago
The article deeply resonates with me. I have been annoyed so often by a website splitting content into PDFs that would have been perfectly fine as HTML. I suppose this happens because the content department makes nicely (sometimes) layouted
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by mmmrk 6y ago
It's no different until raiders show up at your door. Your million dollars can be stored in assets outside your home. Also, IIRC, gold quickly lost its trading value in post WW2 Germany because, uh, you couldn't eat it.
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by mmmrk 6y ago
> If you were retiring in 2008, you might not be able to keep averaging with the market, even if you had the stomach to do it. That is why you need to risk-adjust your portfolio before you hit retirement and see to it that you have other
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by mmmrk 6y ago
And on other dates, it was not $773. So what? Long term, the world market (more than the US) historically averaged to 6-8% growth p.a. with dividends before inflation iirc, and the last 120 years were certainly no walk in the park for the w
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by mmmrk 6y ago
> "you can't beat the market" You can, but not consistently according to the Efficient Market Hypothesis. If you are referring to e.g. factor investing, that's not "beating the market" in the traditional fun
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by mmmrk 6y ago
Maybe it helps to set the OVERLAP_* flags as described in the glyf table spec?
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by mmmrk 6y ago
You invest into something like the S&P 500 (maybe better: MSCI World/FTSE Developed World) precisely to outrun inflation. In the OP's example, the million would be worth that million, not 300k. Look up compound interest.
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by mmmrk 6y ago
Adobe apps don't need a STAT afaik, Microsoft apps do.
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by mmmrk 6y ago
They should show up with their individual styles, but you can't variate them. They need to contain a STAT table to work on Windows though.
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by mmmrk 7y ago
Thanks. It's just weird that I can't easily find it by googling. Or maybe I'm doing something wrong...
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by mmmrk 7y ago
Umm.. So I'm trying to find out if this survey is legit and I can't find a mention of it on https://www.research.ox.ac.uk/Area/coronavirus-research or by googling "onlinesurveys coronavirus-disease-covid
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by mmmrk 7y ago
[The following is a rant] I've been living in London for 2 years now and I find the city dreadful. The quality of housing is usually well below the standards I'm used to from Germany (I won't start on the pricing), but what r
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by mmmrk 7y ago
Persecution can take more forms than law enforcement. Maybe one day you'll come around to the idea that feminist ideas are valid without feminists being put into jail.
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by mmmrk 7y ago
For some anecdata, compare the file sizes in the latest Cantarell release tarball from the GNOME FTP server. The compression ratio varies depending on how the variable font was made though. E.g. Noto Sans clocks in at 1.5 MB because it is m
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by mmmrk 7y ago
I don't know why, but I immensely enjoyed the use of that single emoji in the opening paragraph.
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by mmmrk 7y ago
It seemed unclear that the patch addressed all the issues raised in the ticket, and looking at random patches still requires dev time. It is a different story when someone else actively works on getting it upstreamed and working on resolvin
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by mmmrk 7y ago
My impression is the opposite: random users demanding that some devs spend their time on a tricky corner issue and getting angry about it. After reading their comments, I'd be very hard pressed to motivate myself to work on it.
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by mmmrk 7y ago
Why do you want to worry?

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