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by jfk13 4mo ago
Sounds like you're expecting the AI-based tools that are finding bugs to also provide fixes. I've been dealing with a bunch of AI-generated (or at least -assisted) vulnerability reports lately. In many cases the reports include pr
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by jfk13 5mo ago
Just to confirm, I'm seeing the same issue on other repos. Sometimes a subset of the expected PRs show up, other times none at all.
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Tom Lehrer, mathematician and singer-songwriter known for colorful satire, dies(pbs.org)
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by jfk13 1y ago
An example worth considering is TeX, which is now 43 years old (considering only TeX82; the earlier TeX78 was a substantially different piece of software). There has been some maintenance over the years, it's true, including a few feat
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by jfk13 1y ago
Except that it's not clear whether the intelligence† that underlies their homing ability is equally effective in helping them evade predators. †Is "intelligence" even the right word here? I don't know. Much depends on ho
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by jfk13 2y ago
Glad to see you didn't acknowledge your source! :-) (It's Tom Lehrer, for any who don't recognize it.)
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by jfk13 2y ago
"Some of you may die but that is a sacrifice I am willing to make."
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by jfk13 2y ago
Does the article's "Example 31" look correct to anyone? I see no "small space between the two boxes" (as claimed) in any of the browsers I tried.
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by jfk13 2y ago
How large does the field have to be? I grow some in my back garden...does that count as zero, then?
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by jfk13 2y ago
Yes, agreed! The first time I visited San Antonio (as a Brit who was based in Dallas for some months) happened to be at exactly that time. We didn't know anything about it, but found ourselves on the river walk in the evening, and alon
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by jfk13 2y ago
It does, but those would only be applied if the `font-variant-ligatures: historical-ligatures` property were specified, so they don't appear on this site.
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by jfk13 2y ago
Specifically, `font-variant-ligatures: discretionary-ligatures` enables this. (So does `font-feature-settings: "dlig" 1`, which is the low-level equivalent; the site includes both.)
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by jfk13 2y ago
Ah, remembering the phone-book Inside Mac volumes! Those were the days. (Kids these days with StackExchange and Copilot have no idea.... now get off my lawn!)
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by jfk13 2y ago
Some years ago I was very frustrated, as a UK citizen visiting the States and suffering from congestion, that I was completely unable to buy it because I wasn't carrying suitable ID that the pharmacy would recognize.
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by jfk13 2y ago
As a test for your browser's internationalisation support, try data:text/html,<div lang="nl" style="text-transform:capitalize">ijmuiden In Firefox, this displays correctly as "IJmuiden"
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by jfk13 2y ago
It looks like for some reason Firefox isn't being served the same source as Safari or Chrome. In those browsers, the filename is wrapped in <center>, <a>, and <tt> elements, and followed by <hr> <br>. But
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by jfk13 2y ago
That's how my mother used to do it, but I've found that you don't actually need to use "lots of fat" -- you can get good results with much less (just enough oil or goose fat to cover the bottom of the roasting tray)
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by jfk13 2y ago
For something that's more of a substantial story than things like Cars & Trucks or Busy Busy Town , let me put in a word for Peasant Pig and the Terrible Dragon . My kids had it pretty much memorized long before they could read
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by jfk13 2y ago
Another issue you'd run into, I suspect, is that in practice text engines/editors/etc will often repaint only fragments of the content, and so the syntax highlighter would not necessarily see all the context it needs. E.g. if
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by jfk13 2y ago
A minor detail, but the MIME type should be `font/woff` (or `font/woff2` if appropriate), not the nonstandard `application/x-...`. (E.g. see https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP&#x2
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by jfk13 2y ago
I tried it (via Firefox DevTools) on your example page by inserting a @font-palette-values rule alongside the @font-face that loads the font: @font-palette-values --mycolors { font-family: Monaspace; base-palette: 0;
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by jfk13 2y ago
Interesting - thanks. I'm on 17.1; time to apply a macOS update, I guess.
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by jfk13 2y ago
Would LaTeX apply the 'calt' lookups? I don't think so. XeLaTeX or LuaLaTeX should be able to do that, though I'm not sure offhand whether they successfully embed color fonts into the output PDF.
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by jfk13 2y ago
It's definitely going to be significantly slower as a result of all the contextual lookups. To get an idea, I repeatedly duplicated the CSS in the "tiny sandbox" until there were nearly 20,000 lines there, and then profiled t
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by jfk13 2y ago
What a fun hack! One small note: the post seems slightly confused about the use of OpenType features, as it calls for: font-feature-settings: "colr", "calt"; but there's no 'colr' feature tag in t
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by jfk13 2y ago
Hello, Molesworth major.
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by jfk13 2y ago
Wow, that brings back memories! I still have a copy of BCPL: the language and its compiler on my shelf, though I admit I haven't looked at it in years. But spent¹ many happy hours with BCPL back in the early 80s. (It was that, Fortra
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by jfk13 2y ago
Some previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41021364
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by jfk13 2y ago
A couple of previous discussions: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31617600 (June 2022) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18388879 (Nov 2018)
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by jfk13 2y ago
Not who you were replying to, but I've had the AuroraWatch UK app installed for a while now (and yes, we enjoyed last night's display, after being alerted by the app).

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