matj1

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   by matj1 2y ago

   What is the source of that information?
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   by matj1 2y ago

   Even with transferring minds, as long as physical beings are in charge of that, all people will surely die because accidents happen and entropy rises. If I live for a hundred or a billion years, I am still mortal, so there will still be exi
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   by matj1 3y ago

   I got an answer to a similar problem that VSCode needs working cursors out of the view where the text is not rendered. That is why it relies on the text grid for all layout and movement. https://github.com/microsoft/vsc
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   by matj1 3y ago

   I agree with that many present tools expect character grid, but moving away from character grid would be not as much work as it seems IMO. Code can be aligned with elastic tabstops ( https://nickgravgaard.com/elastic-tabstop
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   by matj1 3y ago

   Duospace fonts are limitedly proportional, but still with no upsides of monospace fonts. Rather than that, I recommend something more proportional like iA Writer Quattro, Input Sans and Recursive Sans. https://input.djr.com/
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   by matj1 3y ago

   That seems like Chromium is trying to do some hinting, which would ideally make the glyphs fit better to pixels, but it corrupts smooth transitions.
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   by matj1 3y ago

   After some time of happily using Input Sans Narrow, I switched to Recursive for programming. Recursive is a variable typeface with five axes, notably monospacedness and casuality. It is the only typeface with continuously adjustable monospa