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by glitch 7y ago
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22206663 for discussion.
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by glitch 7y ago
(1) I acknowledge that the author already states that "[they are] quite well aware that this uses Unicode not ASCII." (2) Having said that, as a request to everybody for future text-based creations, could we please stop referring
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by glitch 8y ago
Note well: "tobacco use" is a umbrella term that includes e-cigarette use (with nicotine), since the nicotine in vape juice is derived from tobacco plants. Also note: "combustible tobacco product use" declined. "Amo
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by glitch 8y ago
Note: 090310.pdf (9 March 2010) is an older version of the textbook. The latest revision of the textbook PDF (091117.pdf, 9 November 2017) is available at: → http://web4.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/D.Barber/textbook/09
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by glitch 8y ago
To add to this: "Why CUDA 'Cores' Aren't Actually Cores, ft. David Kanter" (Gamers Nexus, 2018 April 18, 18 min.) https://youtu.be/x-N6pjBbyY0
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by glitch 8y ago
(I have not tried either of these solutions, so I'm not sure if they actually work.) Although still separate applications, Karabiner and Scroll Reverser are both free. (I mention this since you stated having to "pay for an app&quo
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by glitch 8y ago
Curious: (1) Do you have some screenshots demonstrating this issue and (2) perhaps an example PDF that others could download for the purpose of issue reproduction? (I have not seen this issue, nor am I able to reproduce this issue after rep
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by glitch 8y ago
For anyone that wants to download the books, I strongly recommend downloading the PDF archive on Archive.org because the image scans within the PDFs are of much higher quality. https://archive.org/details/Harvard-Classi
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by glitch 9y ago
Here's an older version dated September 15, 2016 (which is 1 year, 5 months ago): https://www.ssc.wisc.edu/~nwilliam/Econ702_files/abch.pdf
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by glitch 9y ago
Sprite_tm’s presentation at the 2017 Hackaday Superconference... “Small Fruit: Disembiggening the Macintosh Plus” (31 min.) → https://youtu.be/V-PiNVPp5h0
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by glitch 9y ago
It is a grave accent. Something which was and still largely is of little use to many that grew up in United States knowing only English. So, such users abused and re-purposed it as a "backtick", which feels like an unfortunate d
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A2osX: cooperative, event-driven multitasking OS for Apple IIe, IIc, IIgs(github.com)
4 points by glitch 9y ago|0 comments
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by glitch 9y ago
In all reality, it was originally named after Shockwave Flash, but the extension meaning was retcon'd to Small Web Format to avoid confusion with Shockwave.
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by glitch 10y ago
It's marketing. Blatant ad. System76 had build quality issues in the past; no idea if they've fixed their issues in the present.
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by glitch 10y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode_font#List_of_Unicode_f...
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by glitch 10y ago
The trick is to use a font that has ligatures, but not to use the ligature characters directly. Let the presentation choose the glyphs to display, and let the encoded characters remain separate as they should. CSS handles this with "fo
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by glitch 10y ago
Ah! That explains the cruft I've seen today with the mess of truncated tweets with links to themselves (twitter.com/i/web/status/…) at the end of the tweet text. (If you use a third-party client, you'll see thi
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by glitch 10y ago
Also check out https://www.w3.org/History/1991-WWW-NeXT/Implementation/
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by glitch 11y ago
Went to a dark room with an Apple Remote; let my eyes adjust for a little while. Pressed it many times; I couldn't see the infrared coming from the LED with my naked eye. (But the camera on my iPhone imaged the infrared from the remote
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by glitch 11y ago
I don't know about Apple, but I know lots of companies that will avoid using the registered logos of others whenever possible, as it opens up the possibility for being bound by another legal string. By avoiding the issue entirely -- no
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by glitch 11y ago
Bay Area FreeBSD User Group (BAFUG) August 2015 meeting. There's a video recording available at http://www.nextbsd.org/jordan-hubbard-visits-bafug/
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by glitch 11y ago
CR3: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Control_register#CR3 Some relevant excerpts from Mac OS X and iOS Internals: To the Apple's Core by Jonathan Levi: From page 133: In 64-bit mode, there is such a huge amount o
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by glitch 11y ago
He wrote "often", not "always".
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by glitch 11y ago
It's obvious from the context. Adding "vertical" is unnecessary. This is conversational writing, not legal nor instructional writing.
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by glitch 11y ago
Yeah, I noticed that too. I told them and they fixed that typo.
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by glitch 11y ago
Digging deeper under the Forums, some random tid-bits... • Releases: http://www.apollo-core.com/knowledge.php?b=6 ◦ FPGA image: http://www.apollo-core.com/bringup/apollo_mini_2000_83.jic ◦ phoeni
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by glitch 11y ago
This can already be done. This doesn't make things any "worse" than they already are in that regard. Cf. http://www.guanotronic.com/~serge/papers/fc15-fonts.pdf & http://pet-portal.eu
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by glitch 11y ago
Also, to more appropriately answer your question, there exists a notion for separating "document" and "UI widget" fonts. Documents often have content to be read at long lengths. UI widgets don't have the "long
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by glitch 11y ago
In the context of general "-system-✻" font & style identifiers (not merely -apple-system-✻ specific)... 1. Knowing extremes and layout boundary conditions: You can reasonably test extremes of wide and condensed font metrics; i
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by glitch 11y ago
Thinking beyond just OS X, the purpose for a general "-system-*" font and style identifier would be that web apps could more easily have the "native look" without having to explicitly identify the operating environment.

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