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by cmyr 9mo ago
A technical note: OpenType Layout does have a way of representing the appropriate _cursor positions_ to use for components of a ligature[1], which is a good proxy for where the individual glyph boundaries are in the trivial case (fi and fl,
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Viktor, the World Builder(markslutsky.com)
1 points by cmyr 2y ago|0 comments
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by cmyr 2y ago
This is definitely true, but there is a useful distinction between the usual evolutionary competition between species in an ecosystem and the very sharp situation of an ecologically novel species being introduced into that ecosystem and out
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by cmyr 2y ago
It is significantly more than that. One major example: quebec has a separate legal system for civil matters, based on french civil law. ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quebec_law )
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by cmyr 3y ago
If you're going to post quite sensationalist speculation please at least provide some attempt at a source or rationale. It doesn't really pass the sniff test that any goverment would bother with this banal subterfuge when they are
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by cmyr 3y ago
I don't think there's some huge point beyond exploring an interesting question, and raising it in a forum where it's possible some people with more specific domain knowledge might offer some insight.
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by cmyr 3y ago
I remember reading in one of John McPhee's geology books (collected as [1], and one of the best things I've ever read) about a particular way that diamonds can form; it had a name (like a diamond jet or a diamond burst or somethin
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by cmyr 3y ago
In reality, how many people are regularly using github search without having a github account? Can this change really be expected to bring in a meaningful number of users? Trying to think this through, my own best guess for what is going
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by cmyr 3y ago
I’ve smoked weed before bed most nights for at least a decade, and if I happen to skip a night I… still sleep fine, unless I’ve had no exercise that day.
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by cmyr 3y ago
Hinting might be a red herring here: these font formats are unsafe almost by design, since they consistently rely on a pattern of reading a value out of a chunk of memory and then treating that value as a pointer offset where additional val
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by cmyr 3y ago
I… don’t really follow this take? I agree that Lee Valley occupies a position at the top of the market, but I don’t think it’s about luxury, at all. My father was a cabinet maker, my mother a school teacher. They built their own home in the
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by cmyr 4y ago
'insidious authoritarianism' is a curious way of describing two not-unreasonable proposals that are presumably aimed at making american democracy more representative and accessible...
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by cmyr 4y ago
Does holding your breath mean “don’t exhale” or “don’t inhale”?
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by cmyr 4y ago
Thank you for sharing. I'm sorry.
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by cmyr 4y ago
> - The black market is always cheaper. anecdata: I'm in canada, which has legalized marijuana recently. The black market is cheaper, but all but the most die-hard stoners I know like to buy government weed, because the product is
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by cmyr 4y ago
'illegal drugs' is a pretty broad brush, and treating opiods and psychedelics equivalently is silly. Surely treatment, education and research would all be far easier alongside decriminalization?
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by cmyr 4y ago
This post refers to full-time employees. You don't really need to fire TVCs; they're generally on shorter term contracts, which you can choose not to renew.
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NATO Standardization Office(nso.nato.int)
1 points by cmyr 4y ago|0 comments
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by cmyr 4y ago
I mean, it is expressed pretty clearly in the article; it uses Nix to manage external dependencies, and manages setting link paths and other build bookkeeping.
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by cmyr 4y ago
I hope I cover this somewhat in the 'motivations' section. Keypaths are used heavily in SwiftUI, and my interest in them came from working on trying to find ergonomic patterns for GUI libraries in Rust.
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by cmyr 5y ago
Really enjoyed this article on « statistical armor » (of which this is presumably an example) https://www.tanknology.co.uk/post/statistical-armour
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by cmyr 5y ago
As a body increases in size, the surface area increases as a square but volume increases as a cube. The more volume, the more heat, and after a certain point your available surface area is no longer adequate to vent that heat. Another examp
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by cmyr 5y ago
Something I haven't seen mentioned yet is one of the most annoying things about regional indicator symbols, which is that interpreting them correctly requires arbitrary backtracking, and handling this correctly is very annoying for thi
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by cmyr 5y ago
I agree completely. Anytime I’m looking at a parser library I just shake my head and close that browser tab. I’m invariably going to want a hand-rolled recursive descent parser two weeks later, so let’s just get on it.
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by cmyr 5y ago
Ignoring the other blatant problems with this interpretation (e.g. that social class was highly correlated with fitness) I suspect that the nobility were intermixing their genes quit successfully via coercion & violence. I am not a gen
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by cmyr 5y ago
seconding this, it is an absolutely wonderful book.
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by cmyr 5y ago
I’m not dismissive of embedded, it’s just a totally different problem set and is not the focus of this article. This article is about the pain points of integrating with the current major desktop platforms, period. I agree we’re in a funny
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by cmyr 5y ago
There are some big challenges, here. One is IME, which requires storing intermediate state and information on the editing session, and communicating that with the platform; another is accessibility, which requires keeping a tree of elements
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by cmyr 5y ago
This article is very much focused on infrastructural stuff, and doesn’t talk at all about layout, widgets, design, theming, etc; these are all totally challenging areas that are out of scope for this post. Maybe one day…
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by cmyr 5y ago
I presume it's mostly that the kernel ships so many drivers.

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