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by mgdlbp 9mo ago
https://int10h.org/blog/2016/01/windows-cleartype-truetype-f... http://www.electronicdissonance.com/2010/01/raster-fonts-in-...
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by mgdlbp 2y ago
Brings to mind the OK GO music video with all the exploded guitars that they stated were already junk. Spilled paint is reminiscent of their videos too. They also smashed pianos in the Rube Goldberg video, and a TV with a sledge. Now I wond
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by mgdlbp 2y ago
For the bridge only, Marti also made a more sufferable cut in German, that is on the OP channel ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJLX3C0eg3g ) The segue from CG is much more sensible
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Georgia and Verdana – typefaces designed for the screen (finally) (1997)(web.archive.org)
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by mgdlbp 3y ago
"quote unification'': most typefaces: “Hello” „Hallo“ Verdana: “Hello” „Hallo“
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by mgdlbp 3y ago
That's a lot of hot pixels for base ISO! Could be the focus stacking intensified them. That camera can actually get a bit more resolution out of sensor movements, though the lens might be at its limit already, or focus was still a litt
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by mgdlbp 3y ago
a weaker method is to set a non-default HISTFILE after HISTSIZE etc
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by mgdlbp 3y ago
Deletionists got to the English Wikipedia page https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3271851 https://web.archive.org/web/20201214110440/https://en.wikipe...
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by mgdlbp 3y ago
(re: dead comment 39066268) I'm now very interested in what Reiser would think of the present state of the (semantic) web. (edit: i.e, the thought experiment, realized: transplant someone just a few years in time --- what gradual chang
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by mgdlbp 3y ago
‹‹‹ "What a camera actually shows is its processor's reconstruction of objects based on input provided by the sensor — not the actual light received by its sensor."
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by mgdlbp 3y ago
:%s/$[0-9]\+$)/\=submatch(1)-1.')' " vim perl -pe 's/([0-9]+)\)/$1-1 .")"/e' ruby -pe 'sub(/([0-9]+)\)/){"#{$1.to_i-1})"}'
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by mgdlbp 3y ago
btw xterm has a hack for editors without mouse support – turn clicks into the right number of movement key presses, uxterm -xrm '*VT100.translations: #override !<Btn1Down>: vi-button() readline-button()'
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by mgdlbp 3y ago
https://web.archive.org/web/20040212/http://bash.fi https://web.archive.org/web/20070227/http://qdb.gr https://web.archive.org/web/20060402/
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by mgdlbp 3y ago
ccTLDs, inexhaustive https://web.archive.org/web/20100222/http://bash.org.az https://web.archive.org/web/20070217/http://bash.org.by https://web.archive.or
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by mgdlbp 3y ago
(I don't think that's what most mean when they say 'chance', but I get what you mean ;) It's similar to realizing how seating choice radically alters your (very small) chance of death by train crash. I was going to
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by mgdlbp 3y ago
Tangentially, an issue with the desktop use case is that the main process of a long-running browser is often the first to be killed, instead of one of its content processes, which it can survive losing. This is the case since 2019 as the ke
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by mgdlbp 3y ago
Internet Archive remembers. https://web.archive.org/web/*/google.com/search/%2A Find a query of interest, see for yourself (and take a snapshot of the present state for posterity). The api enables more p
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by mgdlbp 3y ago
Enable Alt+SysRq+F and do it manually. Works in seconds every time; the kernel can take days because it's not eager enough when thrashing. Can have security implications, but the target is chosen in the typical way and screen locks sho
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by mgdlbp 3y ago
a garden path sentence, but it parses. [only on HN] could [any state [that Gentoo was ever in]] be [reflected upon [as "just worked like a breeze"] unironically]_,_ and [I] mean [that] [in a fond, loving way]
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by mgdlbp 3y ago
M-x eshell Welcome to the Emacs shell /tmp $ set-variable `x 6; echo $x 6 /tmp $ M-: (term "pwsh") PowerShell 7.4.0 PS /tmp> set-variable `x 6; echo $x 6 PS /tmp> Disturbing
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by mgdlbp 3y ago
The parts of the logbook shown in the listing seem to imply that this engine was removed in the 1980s when the plane was still registered as G-BFKW. As for the plane, engines 3 and 4 are visible in a 2010 photo.¹ By 2015 the ducts had all b
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by mgdlbp 3y ago
cf. patent US 92467 from 1869 — https://worldwide.espacenet.com/publicationDetails/originalD...
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by mgdlbp 3y ago
Wait, is that[0] MS Sans Serif? MS PGothic? What version of Windows would fall back to that in 2013? [0] https://web.archive.org/web/20210826103144/http://www.crimef...
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by mgdlbp 3y ago
Additionally, $ f=-x $ cat "$f" cat: invalid option -- 'x' $ cat -- "$f" cat: -x: No such file or directory # ^-- correct, but: $ f=- $ cat -- "$f" reading stdi
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by mgdlbp 3y ago
zsh, short loop: for i in {1..10}; <<<$i powershell: foreach ($i in 1..10) { $i } 1..10|%{$_}
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by mgdlbp 3y ago
https://ncatlab.org/nlab/all_pages ;-D
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by mgdlbp 3y ago
The first answer is wrong, so is the second's explanation... twice it conflates unset with null/empty. Very illustrative! The substance of the first answer: #!/bin/bash # Check if the first parameter is no
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by mgdlbp 3y ago
Some (topical) amusements: $ echo 25 | pwsh -c '$input-replace"\d",{2*"$_"}' 410 $ echo 25 | perl -pe 's/\d/2*$&/eg' 410 ``` PS> $temp:pwsh_out = 10000
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by mgdlbp 3y ago
Opportunistic interjection that unnecessary ${} is the most bothersome style choice in any language I know of: - It obscures actual uses of modifiers, particularly ${foo-} when set -u is in effect, - It's obvious when a name runs into
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by mgdlbp 3y ago
GNU parallel, since 2010: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/parallel.git/refs/

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