mellonaut

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by mellonaut 1y ago
For those that now find themselves inspired to type the Snellen E, the internet provides an OFL typeface that scratches your itch here¹ (this unclearly licensed modification² even comes with some cute but barely readable lowercase versions
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by mellonaut 1y ago
Twenty years since Linus Torvalds committed "Initial revision of "git", the information manager from hell"!
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Git's initial commit(github.com)
20 points by mellonaut 1y ago|3 comments
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Key principles on in-game virtual currencies(commission.europa.eu)
2 points by mellonaut 1y ago|0 comments
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by mellonaut 2y ago
There is a fork of this[1] that includes programming ligatures, which might make this a more viable FOSS alternative to Comic-Code mentioned elsewhere. [1] https://github.com/wayou/comic-mono-font/
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Janet Jackson had the power to crash laptop computers (2022)(devblogs.microsoft.com)
204 points by mellonaut 2y ago|79 comments
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by mellonaut 2y ago
The last program on the examples page⁰ truly is amazing: A guy (called Piet!) saw an artwork that reminded him of Piet (the lang) and tried executing it¹. > It ran! [...] This is probably the first time in history that a graphic artist h
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Supabase moves from project-based to organization-based billing(supabase.com)
5 points by mellonaut 3y ago|0 comments
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by mellonaut 3y ago
Thanks! That's a nice resource, some of those I did not yet know about
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Ask HN: Can you view tweets while logged out?
10 points by mellonaut 3y ago|6 comments
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by mellonaut 3y ago
within 15min of you posting this, hitler has become the #1 ranked thing on the leaderboard
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by mellonaut 3y ago
It's not Tetris but it's not Not Tetris¹ ¹) https://stabyourself.net/nottetris2
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by mellonaut 4y ago
It's safe to assume this page assumes some prior knowledge of Tauri[0] and Vue[1], which would answer your question :) [0] https://tauri.app [1] https://vuejs.org
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by mellonaut 4y ago
What an incredible feeling of self-agency and power it must be to be able to say “I am not dumb” after being called a dumb mute by everybody all your life. Amazing.
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by mellonaut 4y ago
Oh wow I coincidentally posted something about the same XKCD strip in my reply to the person above, but have never come across these versions before, thank you!
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by mellonaut 4y ago
Though I completely agree with you on a rational basis (the first string being coined by someone who is not even in NASA¹), for some reason anthropomorphising space robots² gives me a weirdly positive feeling. ¹ https://www.snope
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by mellonaut 4y ago
NASA apparently builds in onion cutting features in all of their space robots, after Opportunity’s “my battery is getting low and it’s getting dark”.
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My power’s low, so this may be the last image I can send(twitter.com)
47 points by mellonaut 4y ago|12 comments
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Pure CSS Puzzle Box(cohost.org)
1 points by mellonaut 4y ago|0 comments
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by mellonaut 4y ago
This is true. They are a rival creative suite, and not a clone. For some things you will need to adjust your mental model, for which their in-house video tutorial series¹ are quite nice. For other things such as studio layout and keybinding
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by mellonaut 4y ago
I am in no way affiliated with them, but if you want a great alternative for the creative suite that HAS pantone support¹, definitely try out the Affinity counterparts: https://affinity.serif.com/ 1. https://twit
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Affinity: Award Winning Creative Software(affinity.serif.com)
3 points by mellonaut 4y ago|1 comments
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by mellonaut 4y ago
I am in no way shape or form affiliated with them other than an extremely satisfied user. I know Hacker News loves not having to rent their software, and I thought you might appreciate the fact that there are full fledged, cross platform re
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by mellonaut 4y ago
In this case I don’t think it’s as bad as you make it look. Comments are hidden by repo owners because they are off-topic. They might be considered similar to HN [DEAD] comments, which (correct me if I’m wrong) also require an account with
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by mellonaut 4y ago
If you want to watch basically the same information deducted in similar matter in video format, presented by a mathematician who makes hilarious youtube videos with very high production value, you’re in luck! Matt parker made a video on thi
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by mellonaut 4y ago
> I’ve never heard about them They are designed to be stealthy, so the fact that they’re not on our radar means they are doing their job!
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by mellonaut 4y ago
She was voted Naughty penguin of the month multiple times [0], so if there’s anything fishy going on I suspect her to be behind the scheme herself. Definitely not as adorable as she looks! [0] https://www.nationalaquarium.co.nz&#
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by mellonaut 4y ago
This is an email you posted to your _public_ profile in a community of tens(?) of thousands, consisting mainly of engineers and businesses people marketing to engineers. What did you expect?
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by mellonaut 4y ago
This is hilarious. I remember a similar collection of headlines and opinion pieces calling out ‘newspapers on trains causing people not to talk to each other’, where ‘newspapers’ could be easily substituted for ‘smartphones’ to bring the t
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by mellonaut 4y ago
Great, I amended my original comment.

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