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by pointlessone 4y ago
> A language designed around having first-class GUI support Delphi and friends[1] is still out there. There's also Lazarus[2] if you don't want to fork off a few grands. [1] https://www.embarcadero.com/products
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by pointlessone 4y ago
Perl is not going away because almost every Linux dstro comes with Perl pre-installed. And Perl is pre-installed because it's a dependency of many old tools. autoconf, automake, ad-hoc build scripts and test suites of many old (establi
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by pointlessone 4y ago
I use DEVONthink to keep a local copy (WebArchive) of interesting pages. On top of obvious bookmarking features like tags I get good search, annotations, and preservation to name a few things. Preservation is underrated. I have quite a few
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by pointlessone 4y ago
Vim has built-in text object for sentences. It supports sentences spanning multiple lines.
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by pointlessone 4y ago
Do some of them have no eye? Are they proper pirates?
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by pointlessone 4y ago
The video games one is funny. The hero text is "Emotion on Call" and the video title is "hearing is Believing". The video is narrated by the most passionless voice imaginable. It barely has question inflections.
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by pointlessone 4y ago
Why not both? It's not like the whole government is one dude and he can't do two things at once.
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by pointlessone 4y ago
If you only consider PC/server market then yes. But I'm fairly confident any given household has more ARM chips in it than x86 CPUs.
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by pointlessone 4y ago
No, this is a bit different. This new feature lets font authors define "layers" that can be individually colored by the end-user. Color gradation you describe is technically possible but would require many layers since the feature
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by pointlessone 5y ago
I'm fairly confident that PDF can not be parsed without interpretation so this probably can't handle it.
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by pointlessone 5y ago
How did you find the link on opensource.adobe.com? The used to host other standards, too (e.g. font formats).
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by pointlessone 5y ago
One of the things that helped me a lot was realising that software is never "done". There's always more to do. Take a look at the simplest tool from coreutils: true. It's git log spans over 22 years. So accept that there
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by pointlessone 5y ago
I feel like this technique would be much more successful for body horror genre.
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by pointlessone 5y ago
I don't know. Adobe looks closer to Apple Garamond than ITC. https://www.typewolf.com/apple-garamond
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by pointlessone 5y ago
For those who might want to explore SSG themselves here's a great directory: https://jamstack.org/generators/
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by pointlessone 5y ago
I am not a researcher in the sense that I'm not publishing papers but I'm a consumer of research. Every day I can find the source code for the paper is a great day. Even if it's some language I don't use I still have som