winety

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by winety 2y ago
Wild piglets are very cute [1], adult wild pigs less so [2]. [1]: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:20180429-155847_Fris... [2]: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ausgewachsenes_Wilds..
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by winety 3y ago
I'd say: Spacing matters, f(1,2) is different from f(1, 2). Just use a semicolon to separate the numbers, e.g. f(1,2; 2).
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by winety 3y ago
You could and that's basically what TeX does, just without the CSS. There are even typesetting systems similar to (La)TeX, that can take XML as input, see Context [1] or Sile [2]. They’re just a step away from using HTML + CSS. Why isn
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by winety 3y ago
It’s crazy, and that’s why hyphenation doesn’t really work that way. Both TeX and web browsers use Liang’s algorithm to split words. [1] It uses so-called patterns, which are short substrings of words in which numbers indicate how to divide
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by winety 4y ago
> There is a problem because some licenses require attribution, but ignoring that... Surely the solution would be to give credit to every author from the training corpus. I am looking forward to the 10 000 lines of copyrights in every he
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by winety 4y ago
There are cursive typefaces for the Latin script, e.g. [1]. There might even be some free ones. Making (good looking) fonts is hard work, but I don’t think making cursive fonts is that much harder. [1]: https://www.dizajndesign.s
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by winety 4y ago
As for some solutions: The choice of the writing instrument helps a lot. While fountain pens feel amazing to write with, one looks like a smurf after writing with one. Hard pencils are one of the better choices. Writing slower also helps a
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by winety 4y ago
> …then why aren't they just library functions in a scripting language? I’d say they basically are. What’s the difference between Python’s sort and (let’s say) Bash’s sort? In Python I call sort to order a data structure like a list