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by tribby 2mo ago
It’s possible you have a small sample.. I have not noticed “total domination” myself. The type foundries I know and sometimes work with are split. Many use RoboFont. FontLab is less common, but there are some shops that have invested in it
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by tribby 1y ago
sub7 was a windows binary (client and server), but it’s possible there was an unofficial perl interface for it or something similar. the perl era definitely saw a lot of precursors to modern C2 dashboards
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by tribby 2y ago
it was eye opening as a young person to learn how to change the path of a folder on a hotline server to ../ with a debugger
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by tribby 2y ago
it looks like it can’t be disabled for view-once media (or at least, that’s what the settings screen says)
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by tribby 2y ago
hetzner is really known for its german bandwidth prices, a change in the US is fairly insignificant IMO. for most applications you could just put a free CDN in front of the cheaper german service to reach the US
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by tribby 2y ago
> what other font editors moreover to Glyph (mac only) have good support for advanced contextual alternates ? any font editor that supports writing opentype feature code manually. glyphs for mac won’t really help you here: while glyphs w
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by tribby 2y ago
I would pronounce it tee-vix, because of the stock ticker symbol TVIX[0] which was a leveraged volatility ETN and very popular in its day. a little too popular - credit suisse delisted it a couple months after the initial market crash brou
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by tribby 3y ago
a variable font is a more generic term than a metafont. it’s a bit pedantic but while both have parameters, a metafont is usually parametrically generated based on its concept of a pen, whereas a variable font usually has different paramete
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by tribby 3y ago
the site needs a big novelty cursor to complete the look
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by tribby 3y ago
> has had any ability to tell me where, how often, or even whether a particular component is in use in the production UI I built a dashboard to display this for the design system I work on at my day job to give product designers better v
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by tribby 3y ago
all google fonts are OFL (the copyleft SIL open font license[0]) with the exception of some legacy fonts which are apache 2. they don’t publish fonts that aren’t OFL anymore 0. http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/pa
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by tribby 3y ago
beuckelaer predates him in terms of ordinary subject matter, but I don't know if the line is so straight anyway. a couple hundred years later courbet's work was more a rejection of neoclassicism than it was a continuation of any p
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by tribby 3y ago
absolutely a response to perl. “TOOWTDI” has been an expression in the python community for a long time :)
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by tribby 3y ago
craigslist is the first one that comes to mind
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by tribby 3y ago
I agree. for some reason I don’t think they’d use this language reporting on amazon…
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by tribby 3y ago
congrats on the launch!
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by tribby 4y ago
> “I’m like, Giannis, you can’t be having accounts at 50 different banks. Let me tell you something, if JPMorgan goes under, your little dinky banks are going to go under too." but isn't that the point - *when* they go under, e
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by tribby 4y ago
a telehealth-only practice inherently cannot provide the same benefits, no?
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by tribby 4y ago
> I ignore the junk. This is the price you have to pay when you get something for free. clearly it isn’t, or the author wouldn’t have been able to move to a free alternative without any junk to ignore.
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by tribby 5y ago
another example of this kind of intentionality from nintendo is the curve on top of SNES, which is there to discourage setting drinks on top of it, unlike the NES before it
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by tribby 6y ago
this is a great abuse of GSUB tables just van rossum’s rubik’s cube is another recent example of font layout gone too far: https://twitter.com/justvanrossum/status/1340960087750402048...
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by tribby 6y ago
independent media would probably do well to look at independent infrastructure. owncast[1] is an interesting project (no affiliation), I’d be curious if there are more like it. 1. https://github.com/owncast/owncast
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by tribby 6y ago
I wonder if you're thinking of netzero - IIRC they did this after they became a paid service, to market their 56k offering against early DSL
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by tribby 6y ago
I disagree with legislation being an easy path forward. legislation takes a long time. for example, we are 12 years into jewel v. NSA . even if you do change the law, lawmakers can create (and other governmental bodies can apply) other, co
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by tribby 6y ago
> Also, while I can't confirm the prevalence, there's a ton of anecdotes you here about shady hiring practices. There's the now popular story about a department refusing to hire people who had too high an IQ this is not ju
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by tribby 6y ago
tax-exempt 501(c)3 nonprofits in the US are required to file IRS form 990[1] which sheds some light on the financials of the organization. it doesn't mean that the organization is run efficiently or puts money to good use, but it does
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by tribby 6y ago
the audio on wire is great, too. I agree adoption has been slow. > But I'm not a cryptographer and am unable to verify the company's security claims. wire has been independently audited (protocol and application): https:/
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by tribby 7y ago
bradfitz’s career is inspirational because he has succeeded in prioritizing curiosity. never would have guessed a perl guy who wrote memcached to solve livejournal problems would move on to go - only to walk away for something more interest
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by tribby 7y ago
I agree with the spirit of your comment (CC makes sense for SVGs), but I also don't think it's quite as simple as content vs. code. there are many icon sets that are distributed as font binaries, for example, which are software; i

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