necovek

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by necovek 10mo ago
That was actually fun if not very useful (I had a dynamic school timetable programmed as my "wallpaper" as I was in high school at the time). Not very useful because you quickly realize you mostly obscure your desktop with actual
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by necovek 10mo ago
As indicated in the article, serifs come from how original letters were carved into stones: they were an artifact of the tool in use. Calligraphy developed similar traits by virtue of using a tool that produced an oval shape, and that you
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by necovek 10mo ago
Most font licenses allow one to embed it into a document and then use that document as intended (to print, view...), but do not extend the license to the document recipient to extract the font and use it in newly created documents. Using a
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by necovek 10mo ago
That's a pretty good summary of the entire article :)
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by necovek 10mo ago
When I jumped into my GNU/Linux journey in late 90s, TNR was nowhere to be found, and I believe is only available through "ms-ttcorefonts" or whatever the package is called (IOW, Times New Roman actually comes from Microsoft)
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by necovek 10mo ago
While it is possible to use "semantic" styling and page layouts and templates in Word, I would argue that Word owes its popularity to the fact that no user is surprised when they select text, change the font, it does not change it
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by necovek 10mo ago
While I appreciate nice typography like not many do (I decide on what editions of a book — especially classics — to get based on the typography and overall layout), I also appreciate that I may be easily swayed by good typography and land o
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by necovek 10mo ago
Whatever you do, you are paying for the search in some manner. With DuckDuckGo, you are being served non-targeted ads. If you go through the trouble of setting anything up to avoid some of the public search engine pitfalls, you are paying w
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by necovek 10mo ago
They know about it, but decided to ignore it "because most people don't set it correctly". Instead of trying to figure out who has set it correctly first, and then use it if they have, they always default to language and sear
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by necovek 10mo ago
Generally, I find the country domains behave consistently: I imagine google.co.uk might still give you English as the main language. But really, Google has been defaulting to a language based on GeoIP data for a long time now.
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by necovek 10mo ago
I'd expect a post like this to include bug reports against documentation that's "confusing", and a bug report against different behaviour in "next dev". But the "bug" text does not seem to be a link e
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by necovek 10mo ago
Thanks for reposting this. All the reasons brought up there, and in a PG's post from 2004 linked from one of the top comments, are the reasons I've picked up Python around year 2000 and never looked back. While I am fully aware of
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by necovek 10mo ago
Just you mentioning Doom makes me wonder how fast will we get someone to run Doom on individually controlled Christmas LEDs on a Christmas tree.
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by necovek 10mo ago
Any web application really has access only to "ephemeral" storage like cookies or localStorage when used in this manner (you could be cleaning your localStorage for every session too). Switching to localStorage would help things,
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by necovek 10mo ago
I found your explanation sufficient: obviously, you are going to find people who find fault in anything, but thanks for the transparency and the effort put into explaining the prioritization and/or workarounds which justify it.
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It kind of is expected, right? If a 70B model can have great overall performance, a 1B model focused on coding and a single language could even be comparable. I am actually hoping we see more per language models soon, though obviously, it c
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by necovek 10mo ago
I do all my interviewing in a very similar way, but I don't use that to "level" an employee: I want most of the engineers in my team to have this mindset, and the only difference between seniority levels should be in the size
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by necovek 10mo ago
When I was a junior engineer, I did not need almost any hand-holding, and could take ill-defined initiatives, figure out the desired goals and outcomes, and ship them. It's just that my code would be shit (hard to understand, hard to t
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by necovek 10mo ago
There is no denying practice is needed, but... I've been doing this (getting to reduce ambiguity and simplify complex problems) since before my first job in free software communities, yet really, I wasn't anywhere close to "s
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by necovek 10mo ago
I wasn't aware of the formal first-arrived rule (as I said, we don't have 4-way stop intersections). Obviously, still imperfect for the original point of arrival (if 4 vehicles come at the same time), but once the pattern is estab
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by necovek 10mo ago
Most intersections I've seen in Serbia cities like Belgrade have "preferential" roads even if they are equally loaded and similarly sized: so, one direction will have either "stop" or "yield" signs, and an
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by necovek 10mo ago
In a traffic jam situation, all-way stop is a "blocked intersection" if every vehicle obeyed it strictly (if there are cars coming from every direction, nobody has right of way and you can't apply the rule of yielding right).
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by necovek 10mo ago
In a traffic jam situation, getting into a collision that "kills a passenger" is usually very hard (10-20mph collision between cars won't get anyone dead, except maybe for someone who gets another health condition triggered).
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by necovek 10mo ago
Definitely. The question then becomes how do they respond on the stimulus of other, more experienced drivers? Eg. if they see 5 cars going around them and "solving" the intersection, do they get empowered to do the same? Or do som
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by necovek 10mo ago
When it is tailored to one customer, that dependency being maintained for you is probably a very particular version you care about. So while copylefted code you can always reshare, it's the timeliness and binary package archives that a
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by necovek 10mo ago
Isn't the actual difference between privacy and anonimity that one indicates that the company knows who you are, but ensures this stays "private", and the other is about not knowing who you are?
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by necovek 10mo ago
The difference is between staying on stable and cherry-picking the latest for what you really do need, and being on everything latest. The latter has a huge maintenance burden, the former is the, as I said already, sweet spot. (And let&#x2
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by necovek 10mo ago
Once you do publish the write-up (here's some encouragement!), hopefully it catches the attention of others so I don't miss it either :)
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But then you as a consumer/user of Debian packages need to stay on top of things when they change in backwards-incompatible ways. I believe the sweet spot is Debian-like stable as the base platform to build on top of, and then commerci
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by necovek 10mo ago
Debian has been doing this for decades, yes, but it is largely a volunteer effort, and it's become a meme how slow Debian is to release things. I've long desired this approach (backporting security fixes) to be commercialized inst

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