jack_jennings

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by jack_jennings 5y ago
If only the Bollinger offerings weren't 100k+ MSRP :(
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by jack_jennings 5y ago
While density may be part of it, my (admittedly: anecdotal) experience in splitting my time between Los Angeles and the nearby mountain communities over the last year is that LA broadband speed is consistently 5 times slower.
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by jack_jennings 5y ago
Heads up, your careers page is a 404
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by jack_jennings 5y ago
As the previous poster mentioned, wood would only be used for particularly large poster type, but (if I recall correctly) even at large scale the printing press does wear out the wood blocks more quickly than metal type; the good designs th
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by jack_jennings 5y ago
Can’t wait for the Amazon themed casino on the Las Vegas strip.
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Sudo monospace font updated with proportional UI companion(github.com)
4 points by jack_jennings 5y ago|0 comments
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by jack_jennings 5y ago
Incredibly, the link at the bottom to the web developer's website still works as well.
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by jack_jennings 5y ago
Actual release blog post URL: https://crystal-lang.org/2021/03/22/crystal-1.0-what-to-expe...
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by jack_jennings 6y ago
Yep, you’re right. My mistake.
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by jack_jennings 6y ago
Also called Lining Figures, this property is a lot more common than “duplexed” alphabetical glyphs — even if they are not the default, most text fonts now support them as an opentype feature.
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by jack_jennings 6y ago
Somewhat interestingly, there is a great deal of inconsistency in naming in the type design world — both in marketing features like this, but also down to terminology for specific parts of letters. I agree that it would be very useful, but
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by jack_jennings 6y ago
To be fair, the issue seems to really be with the HN title and not the actual project…
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by jack_jennings 6y ago
I bought this book for my wife (who is swiss). It’s quite well produced and has a good deal of photographs. Recommended!
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by jack_jennings 7y ago
Don’t confuse the apathy of the politicians that can run for office (and have the financial backing to do so), with the apathy of voters.
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by jack_jennings 8y ago
A bit more information about the typeface created for this project, which is open source: https://github.com/djrrb/CERN-www-fonts/blob/master/README.m... (The type world being a small one, this design ha
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by jack_jennings 8y ago
In my experience I find that hard to believe, and if true, those rescues are doing a poor job. Everyone that works in animal rescue knows which animals are at high risk of being euthanized, and always prioritize pulling those animals. Regar
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by jack_jennings 8y ago
The insinuation that people that adopt “less desireable” animals are less responsible is verging on insulting. The people that I have met that are working for neglected animals are some of the most dedicated and compassionate people that I
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by jack_jennings 8y ago
There is hashbase, which is open source with a hosted option: https://hashbase.io
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by jack_jennings 8y ago
4. It's easier to justify charging a subscription to your web app customers
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by jack_jennings 8y ago
Glad to hear something will happen in collaboration with the Mayor's office, at some point in the future. Until that point, pass Prop C and propose a repeal whenever you all come up with the plan that's so much better.
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by jack_jennings 8y ago
Which variant map did you play? I have seen a few world maps but hard to see the potential balance issues without playing a few rounds…
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by jack_jennings 8y ago
Though interestingly, a lot of the solutions they arrived at are also generally seen as a good foundation for even printed letterforms (or other high fidelity formats) when the goal is readability.
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by jack_jennings 8y ago
Almost 30 minutes downtime now with no update…
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The Lawrence Journal-World, where Django was created, is now a Wordpress site(twitter.com)
3 points by jack_jennings 8y ago|0 comments
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by jack_jennings 8y ago
I am most likely explaining this wrong, but because building derivations are isolated from the global environment variables, any way of accessing configuration options seems like a kludge. We ended up adding a hashicorp vault server to our
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by jack_jennings 8y ago
WASM will mean compiling Python will be possible, and most of the useful Sass features are supported in CSS now?
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by jack_jennings 9y ago
Now here's to hoping that Heroku supports this soon. That will to mean I can a last migrate a number of apps that require wildcard domains to their platform.
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Nix 2.0 Released(nixos.org)
278 points by jack_jennings 9y ago|120 comments
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by jack_jennings 9y ago
Closer to idomatic Ruby: state = behavior.respond_to? :init ? behavior.init : {} Asking an object if something is "callable" in Ruby is probably unnecesarily verbose, as you are most likely dealing with a method for any attribute
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by jack_jennings 9y ago
You might also be interest in ZXX, a typeface made for fooling OCR: http://www.sang-mun.com/zxx

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