dsevil

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by dsevil 4mo ago
Just posted the following poorly-fleshed-out comment there: So disappointed that this document, as much as it obsesses over obscure physical quantities no one cares about, makes no mention of THE FUCK. 1 fuck is equal to the amount of conce
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by dsevil 9mo ago
I've seen some comments about how Times New Roman was replaced with something else to improve readability by many. There's an irony: the _Times_ (of London) commissioned it in 1932 to improve the readability of its newspaper, whic
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by dsevil 9mo ago
I think there's clones of it that aren't.
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by dsevil 1y ago
I didn't want to even try to mess with ligatures in a monospace font though I did œ and Œ and for WGL4 completeness IJ. So yeah I'll do ij as well...
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by dsevil 1y ago
When clicking to OPEN them (which I'm not able to do) or just right-clicking to INSTALL them (which I'm able to do)?
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by dsevil 1y ago
Old Timey Mono is the mostly faithful reproduction. Old Timey Code is the coding friendly font. I'm aiming for both.
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by dsevil 1y ago
Ok so there's no capital or small Y with breve in Unicode. Are you seeing the combining breve to the right of the Y/y (instead of atop it) when trying to use them? Your suggestions are welcome, thank you!
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by dsevil 1y ago
I was taught to use lowercase letter L for the digit 1 though I did see typewriter samples using the capital I.
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by dsevil 1y ago
Yeah the dot is mostly a manner of preference. It looks less crowded than slashed zero maybe? The dotted zero does disambiguate from U+00D8 [LATIN CAPITAL LETTER O WITH STROKE]( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%98 ).
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by dsevil 1y ago
It appears to look that way in the Turbo Pascal manual as well. I'll check ATF specimens and whatnot.
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Old Timey Code and Old Timey Mono Fonts(github.com)
192 points by dsevil 1y ago|33 comments
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by dsevil 1y ago
Based on Reproducing Typewriter, a letterpress typeface from c. 1906 used to create fake typewritten letters for promotional material. Where other monospace typefaces replicated actual typewriters, Reproducing Typewriter had improvements fo
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by dsevil 2y ago
That's ONE of the linchpins of cryptocurrency, yes. Git has that part. Someone else mentioned consensus which is orthogonal. Git does not have that part.
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by dsevil 2y ago
Original author writes: >>> "Quick aside: I first learned about these ASCII delimiters while working with .fec files. For whatever reason, the Federal Election Commission in the United States also decided that they needed to
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by dsevil 3y ago
In case you haven’t figured this out: Go to https://www.microsoft.com/design Scroll to the bottom. Look for the set of social media links; the first one is an “M”.
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by dsevil 3y ago
All the websites look the same but it's mostly because all the frameworks are the same. I'm thinking mainly of Bootstrap and Zurb Foundation. They share a lot of the same principles such as the 12-column grid, general typographic
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by dsevil 4y ago
FontAwesome's documentation in the past contained examples using the <i> element. Example: <i class="fa fa-facebook"></i>  I believe they p
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by dsevil 5y ago
The fact that I haven't done any serious work involving hinting with this font may have something to do with this issue as well. I'll have to look at this later.
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by dsevil 5y ago
I couldn't think of a better word than "ugly". Maybe "weird" or "quirky"? Honestly I'm not sure of that whole sentence. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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by dsevil 5y ago
joe needs to be on that list. probably. https://joe-editor.sourceforge.io/
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by dsevil 8y ago
Install the web-mode package. It handles a lot of modern web stuff pretty well.