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by needle0 4y ago
Surprised Pikachu Face
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by needle0 4y ago
Of relevance: https://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/entry/23
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by needle0 4y ago
The Tokyo rail system begs to differ :P
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by needle0 4y ago
This sounds more like the "Labors" from Mobile Police Patlabor -- those were actually used in-universe for construction/maintenance work. (But of course, all humanoid robots are Gundams to the uninitiated, much like how all g
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by needle0 4y ago
This reminds me of a guy in 2007 whose curiosity got him to cram around 34kg (75lbs) worth of lead bricks into the Japanese postal service's ExPack 500 flat-rate envelope, which had a supposedly 'impossible' limit of 30kg (6
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by needle0 4y ago
It's most likely based on the honor system. I mean, if you're willingly paying a visit there yourself, you came there to get work done and have some fun doing so, not to actively game and exploit the system. Plus, the cafe only ha
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by needle0 5y ago
So MIT is "do attribute me" and I guess MIT-0 is "you don't need to attribute me (but it's fine if you do)", I wonder if there are any "explicitly do NOT attribute me" licenses?
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by needle0 5y ago
Many Japanese fonts I'm aware of do have that many glyphs all manually hand-optimized for the full range of font weights all the way from UltraLight to Heavy. Yes, it's an enormous amount of work; yes, Asian type foundries is se
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by needle0 5y ago
And that is just for western text. Welcome to Chinese/Japanese/Korean/Vietnamese -- Over 50,000 kanji glyphs, hangul, hiragana/katakana/kanji mixed script, language-specific glyph variants with identical codepoints,
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by needle0 5y ago
C'mon, you can't just throw out a number like that and not provide an exhaustive list of all 15 targeted diseases! The article (and its linked source) mentions Chikungunya, Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever, Dengue, Ebola, Malaria,
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by needle0 5y ago
Uh, Varjo Aero is a clear outlier in terms of resolution and definitely does not represent the current typical VR headset experience (which in early 2022 would be around Quest 2 or Valve Index). If you went out of your way to get an expensi
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by needle0 5y ago
It can also cram all that data into only a few square centimeters, which is a godsend in places like packaging, where every square mm is precious.
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by needle0 5y ago
The Chicago 12pt, Geneva 9pt (plain and bold), and Monaco 9pt bitmap font glyphs are forever burned into the depths of my brain.
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by needle0 5y ago
What I find problematic with websites like this is that the whole thing is based on an implicit assumption that there is a universal "good" and "evil" (probably from an anglophone westerner point of view), with no regard
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by needle0 5y ago
Considering Zynga paid over $50 million to buy Words With Friends [1] back in 2011, the price seems awfully low. Then again, who knows, maybe the creator is simply indifferent to worldly gain, considering he didn't even bother to inclu
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by needle0 5y ago
While I'm not absolute on the notion that 5 letters is perfect, I found the current game lives on quite a precarious balance; There is a Japanese version with around 65 possible letters, and the secret word being 4 letters, but this tu
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by needle0 5y ago
Well, they could be just talking about ensuring Godot-based Windows games running on Proton without any Linux-specific compatibility issues, of course...
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by needle0 5y ago
When the description "just a PC" is applied to Steam Deck, it usually implies not just the x86/IBM-PC-descendant hardware configurations, but also the lack of strict software/hardware lockdown measures to prevent the use
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by needle0 5y ago
I'd imagine one would have a tendency to consider what you're personally working on as superior in some way to something you're not.
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by needle0 5y ago
First the Framework Laptop and now this? Swappable modules seem to be in vogue (though they don't seem to be cross-compatible).
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by needle0 5y ago
Newspaper websites may also have years-old internal typesetting rules, carried over from paper, that mandate alphabetical text must appear in full-width (double wide). They look ugly even to native Japanese, and some newspapers have gradual
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by needle0 5y ago
Was notified from someone else about the isComposing attribute -- https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/KeyboardEve... At least for web stuff, do you think checking for this before treating th
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by needle0 5y ago
Thanks. I reworded it a bit and put more emphasis on code points.
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by needle0 5y ago
I updated both sections according to your suggestions. Thanks!
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by needle0 5y ago
My original motive to write this page came most from issues in video games, where text is often displayed using custom routines and built-in rules in the OS & browser can't be of help. The issue crops up most often in indie games,
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by needle0 5y ago
Good point. Will reword that part.
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by needle0 5y ago
I agree the page is somewhat roundabout in its current state since I went from the background to the symptom to the fix. Open to suggestions on rearranging the article so that more devs can implement fixes.
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by needle0 5y ago
The latter. In HTML you can specify a specific DOM element as being in a specific language so the browser can render it properly, but if the place you want to quote text isn't as allowing (eg. comment sections with no HTML allowed), th
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by needle0 5y ago
There may be issues displaying it on Firefox. Chrome and Safari seems to have displayed it correctly on my end. I'll find time to replace them with images so they appear correct regardless of environment. EDIT: Replaced with images.
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Your code displays Japanese wrong(heistak.github.io)
199 points by needle0 5y ago|153 comments

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