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by lyall 5d ago
I'm surprised that articles like this that are pretty clearly AI-generated get any sort of traction here. Is it because people think the topic is interesting but don't actually care about the content? > Three Japanese words, th
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by lyall 1mo ago
> Go to restaurant > Order food > Food comes out as raw, unprepared ingredients > Complain to chef > Tells me to go cook it myself > wtf, I'm not here to do work for free > "Is doing something for yourself rea
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PrintingFilms.com(printingfilms.com)
2 points by lyall 1mo ago|0 comments
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by lyall 2mo ago
There might be something valuable in this article, but if the you couldn't be bothered to write it yourself, why should we be bothered to read it?
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by lyall 2mo ago
Good call. I've updated to release script to always include the SRI hash in the README sample.
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by lyall 2mo ago
Yes! Just added support for them today after another HN user’s request: https://github.com/lyallcooper/justif/issues/3
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by lyall 2mo ago
Good eye! The space in "No. 12" would traditionally get a thin space [0] in professionally typeset documents, which is smaller than the standard space used for inter-word and inter-sentence spacing. The solution here is to fix the
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by lyall 2mo ago
It should be when the screen width is less than 456 css px with the current configuration.
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by lyall 2mo ago
Thankfully the unit it operates on is a paragraph, not the whole body of text. Also thankfully computers are very fast these days! I added the “Alice in Wonderland (long)” text sample to the demo as a stress test, but its paragraphs are sti
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by lyall 2mo ago
The layout is done entirely in DOM. The layout engine calculates the line breaks, tracking, expansion, etc. then applies the layout using HTML spans with the appropriate attributes applied. There’s generally one span per line, but that can
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by lyall 2mo ago
That's not something justif supports directly right now. It currently targets rectangular blocks, not arbitrary edge shapes. But the underlying line-breaking approach could accommodate per-line widths, so it would be plausible to add I
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by lyall 2mo ago
It is the default if you open the demo on a narrow screen! It has a more striking difference between browser and justif layouts at narrow widths than the Alice sample. But maybe you’re right and it should be the default for everyone.
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by lyall 2mo ago
Hyphenation: yes, justif does its own hyphenation. It ships with TeX’s hyphenation dictionaries for a bunch of languages, but supports custom dictionaries as well! See https://github.com/lyallcooper/justif#hyphenation
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by lyall 2mo ago
Yes, there is something to be said for this argument. Debit card and cash users pay slightly higher prices than they might otherwise, which do subsidize the rewards of credit card users. But this is distinct from the argument presented in t
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by lyall 2mo ago
You hear this argument pretty often, but it's not true. Credit card companies do make a lot of money off of interest. But they also make a lot of money off of interchange fees. Businesses want wealthy customers because they spend more
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by lyall 2mo ago
Thank you! And yes by default TeX doesn't do tracking or expansion, but the microtype [0] package does. And I did struggle a bit with deciding how best to do the comparison to native browser rendering. I wanted it to be an apples-to-ap
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Show HN: Justif – Knuth-Plass justification and microtypography for the web(justif.lyall.co)
198 points by lyall 2mo ago|40 comments
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Show HN: Justif – publication-grade text justification for the web(justif.lyall.co)
5 points by lyall 2mo ago|0 comments
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by lyall 2mo ago
If you saw TFA and thought "hmmm yes, I know some of those words", then I can recommend the author's own lecture series on YouTube [0]. It's an intro to and overview of category theory aimed at programmers, with the requ
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Toto: From Toilets to E-Chucks [video](youtube.com)
1 points by lyall 3mo ago|0 comments
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by lyall 3mo ago
Agree with many other comments. Backrest is good and works well for me, though it certainly has its UI/UX quirks that hold it back from being truly great.
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by lyall 7mo ago
I’m going through something similar but with English instead of Spanish. That’s why I added the “kana readable” and “kana faithful” dimensions.
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by lyall 7mo ago
I don’t have a way to check built in right now. But you can look at the 2020 data here: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/hackerb9/ssa-baby-names/re... If your name is on there it’s probably included in namex. I c
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by lyall 7mo ago
If you’ve got a name that is very rare in the US then it’s possible! Any name that had at least 15 registered births over the last three years in the SSA data is included.
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Show HN: I made a static site for exploring names(namex.lyall.co)
4 points by lyall 7mo ago|8 comments
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by lyall 11mo ago
I agree, the worst part about climate change is motorcyclists riding past this guy's house.
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Careful Communication(blog.lyall.co)
3 points by lyall 1y ago|0 comments
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by lyall 1y ago
Yeah I agree. I way over-indexed on learning kanji (via WaniKani) at the beginning of my Japanese learning journey. I got about halfway through before realizing it was silly that I could read 健忘症 but didn't know many very basic hiragan
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by lyall 1y ago
When learning Japanese, I purposely chose to _not_ learn how to write any of it by hand. As the author notes, writing (by hand) is in fact a separate skill from reading. So I decided I would not invest my limited time, motivation, or brain
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by lyall 1y ago
I’m in the exact same situation. I’d like to drop emacs for Zed but magit keeps me coming back. That and Zed’s vim emulation isn’t quite up to par yet.

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