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by romwell 3y ago
>What's wrong with that? Going out of one's way to tell to a person that wasn't talking to you in the first place to say that you don't care about what they said. >Especially when the opinions are simply, "You
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by romwell 3y ago
>Heh well actually I made the font for my own use. Perhaps you should change the banner on the github page to reflect that. Currently, it says "the best programming font"; whereas your comment implies it is merely "the
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by romwell 3y ago
To add to that, my expectation of fonts is that the italic version follows the same style as the non-italic version (same goes for bold). Having a typewriter-like font whose italics version looks like handwritten cursive breaks this e
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by romwell 3y ago
Feels like your response could be abbreviated for clarity: >Thanks for trying the font and having lots of thoughts about it [...] In the end, I guess I don’t really care
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by romwell 3y ago
>NK needs to pass some laws making crypto wallets outside of NK illegal. Then it can all be categorized under asset seizure. Sure, it would be seizure anywhere they have jurisdiction. Which isn't anywhere outside NK, rendering that
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by romwell 3y ago
Crypto is a form of asset, not currency. We just use the wrong word for it.
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by romwell 3y ago
Why assume that person was stealing anything from the employer, rather than simply being a shitty reseller that only ships when they get a good discount from working in the industry. A call like that can incentivize them to buy at full pric
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by romwell 3y ago
>p sure Xbox relinquished (inactive) gamertags And with this move, the level of discourse on X is one step closer to that on Xbox .
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by romwell 3y ago
Why not banks too? Haven't used your money in a while? Poof! Someone else would make better use of them. Real estate too. Taxes ain't enough - confiscate vacant property, and sell it at a flat rate at an ~open~ secret auction. A
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by romwell 3y ago
There's a difference between relinquishing and selling.
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by romwell 3y ago
Better for X. Maybe. In the short term.
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by romwell 3y ago
>and lunchtime cocaine. In fact, forget the ice baths
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by romwell 3y ago
>It doesn't work for multiple sleepless/almost-sleepless nights in a row, ask me how I know. In other news, beneficial effects of a single cup of coffee don't seem to show up after you have a dozen of them.
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by romwell 3y ago
Seconding everything you wrote. Emphasizing: - "The problem is it gives some, and takes a god damn lot" - "Therapy and SSRI:s worked much better in the end" Still resort to this sometimes when I'm not on a schedule
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Watchbird (R. Sheckley, 1953)(gutenberg.org)
2 points by romwell 3y ago|0 comments
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by romwell 3y ago
"Mei asks where has the scrollbar gone on the desktop version of the website. Dot responds, `What scrollbar?`. Mei promptly closes the page and never returns".
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by romwell 3y ago
>Would it be possible at some point to have voxels the size of a pixel? And would it benefit for example path tracing, physics and other things? The answers are yes and maybe . There are people who are working in that direction. See t
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by romwell 3y ago
>It’s a comparison between real-world transportation systems ...which have very different comparable characteristics.
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by romwell 3y ago
>I actually don't agree with this. I think _not_ having "essential dynamism" where it's not needed is actually a feature, not a bug. Yeah. To author's surprise, Adobe's PDF spec supports JavaScript execution
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by romwell 3y ago
>There are popups for symbols inside large, dense equations. That can really help. That can also really mess with screen readers and other accessibility features. There's a reason PDF/A spec forbids scripts in any PDF documents
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by romwell 3y ago
>This was a nostalgia bomb for me Heck, I remember that article from the time it was circulated on Slashdot back in the day. Looking at the title, I was, like, OMG, was it about that crazy setup where someone wired a desktop PC to play
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by romwell 3y ago
KaTeX is so plug-and-play for simple LaTeX in web pages that I never bothered thinking about anything else
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by romwell 3y ago
How the attacks in Israel are changing... what? Ah, the app that I couldn't install because it didn't launch in Europe for some reason [0], and which won't allow one to post such controversial content as the female nipple
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by romwell 3y ago
>I wonder how it works out for them when someone produces the recording that settles it for good. Portable microcassette records have been around for many decades (and hitting record on a phone to capture audio is something anyone can do
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by romwell 3y ago
>Rewind Pendant is a wearable that captures what you say and hear in the real world and then transcribes, encrypts, and stores it entirely locally on your phone So, the recordings are not stored locally (i.e. on-device), and it requires
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by romwell 3y ago
The ship for covert audio recording has sailed many decades ago, around the time Dictaphone trade mark being registered by Alexander Graham Bell.
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by romwell 3y ago
>I live in Mumbles, which is spelt "Mwmbwls" in Welsh. Ah Welsh, the golden standard of phonetic spelling and easy pronunciation! In other words, one needs a manual just to learn how to pronounce the name of that thing. Off t
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by romwell 3y ago
OK, the obvious question: Why go with an unpronounceable name? I mean, great that it was made, but I can't even tell people I'm using... mwumble? But it's spelled em-doubleyou-em-bee-el dot org.
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by romwell 3y ago
That's to account for possibly different (average) left/right steps. Averages out better.
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Historical Context of Ukraine Considering Changing Russia to “Moscovia” on Maps(old.reddit.com)
3 points by romwell 3y ago|0 comments

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