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by zajio1am 3y ago
> The idea is that we just place glyphs where the coordinates tell us, and if that is a fractional position somewhere between pixels, so be it, we can render the outline at that offset just fine. This approach works—if your output device
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by zajio1am 3y ago
For some reason, FreeType broke proper grid-fitting and now requires environment variable FREETYPE_PROPERTIES=truetype:interpreter-version=35 to activate it.
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If one uses llama.cpp in CPU mode, then models are mmaped, so they do not really occupy memory when not used (they are just in reclaimable page cache).
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I think it is more correct to use 'UK' (or any other country) just for government and its institutions than for the body of its citizens.
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To be fair, IETF standardization of XMPP was somewhat afterthought, and further extensions (XEPs), which are necessary for modern clients, are not IETF standardized.
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There is reasonable argument that it is not much difference between tracking someone car and tracking someone private jet. But super-rich are outgroup so most people who would strongly oppose the first case would not care in the second case
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Internet is almost entirely terrestrial. GPS (for civilian use) could be replaced with a land-based network of transmitters (like GSM network).
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There is always an implicit tradeoff of working in company A with one tuple of salary / working environment, or working in company B with another tuple of salary / working environment. If we eliminate tuples that are dominated by
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by zajio1am 3y ago
No. Like in any modern democratic country, it is legislature and not government defining what is legal.
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'place of work' is usually (here in Czechia) defined in a labor contract. So that cannot change because 'team decided'. I have contract with my employer, not with my team.
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by zajio1am 3y ago
https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/john-milton/paradise-lost
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This has probably nothing with catholicism and everything with bureaucracy-satety-ism.
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For languages that have strict distinction between booleans and integers (or other non-logical types) there is the natural priority of operations: 1) algebraic 2) relational 3) logical From this, bitwise & and | are algebraic, so they s
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by zajio1am 3y ago
You can sell the physical book on secondary market and keep the ebook.
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I pretty much agree with OP, but i could see an argument for smooth scrolling with precise mouse scroll events. But: 1) Most mouse scroll wheels feels discrete / have low resolution, so they behave more like discrete press. With my cur
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by zajio1am 3y ago
If every user has to pay the minimum price then the software would not be free software, by definition.
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> Small businesses and solo-entrepreneurs have to deal with liability and permits all the time in other fields, In other fields there is a direct relation between number of customers and liability. But if i offer free software and also o
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> Whatever good the EU does, if free speech is the price, I'm not willing to pay it. That is not really 'mindset of the EU bureaucrats', more like 'mindset of european politicians'. Politicians on national level
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> Would the world be a better place if the technology for living a thousand years existed? Absolutely not, at least not at first, and certainly not today If you want to sacrifice your life for a better world, that is your decision. But d
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> I've not heard of it being financially viable even when farmland is very constrained - say, in Holland There is EU single market. If farmland in Holland is constrained, it would be still cheaper to farm in other EU countries with
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by zajio1am 3y ago
Netanyahu could be displaced in elections. But how could Hamas be displaced?
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Even if supermarket is in walking distance, the limiting factor is ability to take all the purchase with me. Using a car i could fill half the car with the purchase, so i do not need to visit it again for several weeks.
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Once i read an analysis comparing EP legislative action to action of national parliaments and it said that EP has much higher rate of rejecting legislation. It makes sense - in parliamentary democracy, the coalition in government has majori
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by zajio1am 3y ago
I think it is just nostalgia. When SVGA games with 640x480, 256 colors became a thing, many iconic pixel art games used that (e.g. Sim City 2000).
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> IMF provides loans to developing countries on the condition that they dont have 'socialist' policies Because these 'socialist' policies are usually the reason why these countries need IMF loans.
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> as an author of some not very popular packages, what do I do? Depends. Do you want your software to be used by users? For me as a user, software that is not in distribution repository almost does not exist. It is too much hassle to ins
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Even if we put away conversation about OS-provided vs. direct-from-developer libraries, why would one want centralized repositories like crates.io, instead of decentralized CVSs like Git, and just link Git URL like dependencies? Seems to me
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by zajio1am 3y ago
IANAL, but i would expect that even if that clause of the contract would hold in court (and perhaps even forces the seller to pay some contractual penalty to Tesla for a breach of contract), it would still be illegal for Tesla to tamper wit
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Lobbying is just people or organizations making their case to politicians in a private way (e.g. meeting MP in their office) instead of a public way (e.g. putting an article to press).
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Or he comprehended that, but also understood that SF writers are not infallible prophets, setting and style are just independent stylistic choices, and cyber-setting from cyberpunk novels could be easily adapted for techno-optimistic SF, bu

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