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Re:I Created 175 Fonts Using Rust on Sunday August 11, 2024 @12:04PM (#41217132)
From a Dane that finds multiple of these fonts gorgeous and highly appreciate the elaborate kern pairs: please consider patching the fonts with an ø. ;-)
Re:Moore vs. United States: Tax Unrealized Income Case on Sunday December 10, 2023 @03:47AM (#38590161)
GP is not fully correct. Under Danish tax rules unrealized gains are not taxed for standard stock investments. Taxation only happens when realizing gains or losses, except for special investment accounts like retirement savings or other account types that have well-defined special rules and clear limits on the amounts that you can put in them. For these special accounts, unrealized gains are taxed at their value at the end of every year.
Related to this is the Red Cross and Crescent symbols, which have their usage protected usage (mainly for armed forces and emergency relief) by the Geneva Convention: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emblems_of_the_International_R...
Re:Walking Tokyo for Seven Days on Saturday August 13, 2022 @09:14AM (#32449573)
Consider reading up on the author. He's been living in Japan for large parts of his life.
Additionally, xterm starts quickly, has an incredibly responsive feel (the latency from keyboard press to a character appearing is lower than any other terminal emulator I've used) and looks absolutely stunning with a nice bitmap font.
Heavy duty deployment tooling is a hobby of its own. :-)
Re:Gitlab 13.9 on Monday February 22, 2021 @03:54PM (#26230464)
I started out using Gitlab for my personal repos, but have switched to using bare Git repos on a VPS for the last few years. If you won't be collaborating with anyone else, nothing beats being able to just write:

   ssh $HOST git init --bare repo/foo
   git remote add origin $HOST:repo/foo
Re:Fossil on Wednesday September 30, 2020 @04:28PM (#24643434)
I enjoy how well-crafted Fossil seems to be; just like SQLite, which a sibling comment also mentioned. I really want to use Fossil, but it would be way too hard for me to not have the index/staging area of Git. [1] For all the software that claims to be 'opinionated', Fossil really is that.

[1]: https://fossil-scm.org/home/doc/trunk/www/gitusers.md

Re:Metafont (1984) on Tuesday June 09, 2020 @05:57AM (#23465210)
For a more gentle introduction, check out 'The METAFONTbook', also by Donald E. Knuth. I think that it is still not available in a digital format, but your local CS-oriented library might have a physical copy.
Re:Freenode IRC logging archive Echelog is shutting down on Friday April 17, 2020 @04:00AM (#22897101)
IRC is not really decentralised, is it? Or are you arguing that it’s decentralised in the sense that each user can implement and control some features like logging?
Re:Time anxiety: is it too late? on Tuesday August 27, 2019 @06:16PM (#20814994)
I recently took up baking (as in bread) as a hobby. It brings me joy to produce something as well smelling and testing as bread. Cooking in general could also be a hobby. Going hiking could be a hobby. Just enjoying life and being mindful of the things around you might open up your mind for hobbies you didn’t even think existed. :-)
Re:Xz format inadequate for long-term archiving (2016) on Wednesday June 05, 2019 @12:17PM (#20105907)
I reckon that the chance of the same two blocks on two different disks failing between ZFS scrubs would be incredibly small.
Re:Picotorrent: a tiny, hackable BitTorrent client on Sunday March 17, 2019 @01:53PM (#19415270)
The readme for this project specifies the user agent of the client as Picotorrent/x.y.z, which makes me think that most private trackers would block it.
Can you provide some details on the claim that Matrix is deeply insecure?
9/11 wasn't caused by lockpicks in luggage. The Vegas shooting had guns in luggage as a key factor.
Re:Ask HN: What are some niche communities you enjoy? on Sunday August 05, 2018 @05:00PM (#17693497)
Thank you for posting this! The tenacity of the OpenBSD community keeps on impressing me.
Nationalise Elsevier? EU does not simply "nationalise" companies on a whim.
Re:Migrating from Jekyll to Hugo on Sunday June 24, 2018 @03:55PM (#17388093)
> which is essentially abandonware

Could you please expand on this? This seems like something that requires a source.

Re:YouTube’s top creators are burning out on Friday June 01, 2018 @07:10PM (#17211310)
Slightly OT: BoJack Horseman hits the nail right on the head in so many aspects regarding human nature, social interactions, mental health etc. The characters are so deeply human in many capacities. The series manages to talk about some heavy topics in a comedic setting while not making it seem silly. Highly recommendable!
Re:EFI Sucks (2012) on Monday February 26, 2018 @06:27AM (#16464580)
The Arch Linux wiki has a good explanation: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/EFISTUB
Re:Dear Apple, please fix notifications on Wednesday January 31, 2018 @10:44AM (#16274696)
This seems like a better solution than what the author proposed. Another thought could be that the pop-ups would only be disabled for the spatial parts of the pop-up which have an interactive element located directly below.
Re:Dear Apple, please fix notifications on Wednesday January 31, 2018 @10:43AM (#16274678)
I can see how the author finds this an issue, but I have to disagree with his proposed solution. Halving the width of the notification in the way shown would only work in the cases where the user is pressing buttons on the left or right sides of the notification. If the notification width was to be variable based on where it could be thought that the user would be pressing, the notification's would have a very inconsistent look.
Is Ted Nelson generally seen as the inventor of hypertext? Vannevar Bush's As We May Think was published in 1945, but it seems that his descriptions of what would later be called hypertext were too general for him to be seen as the 'inventor of hypertext'.
Re:XCPng: libre XenServer on Saturday January 13, 2018 @05:11PM (#16141713)
It can be done with a bit of work using QEMU/libvirt. The Arch Linux wiki has a good guide for doing it. Not that it’s a pretty solution always…
Re:Python decorators they don't tell you about on Sunday January 07, 2018 @04:15AM (#16090018)
It’s still widely inappropriate.
Re:iPhone 6 slows down by 28% after just 4 months use on Saturday December 30, 2017 @05:46PM (#16038157)
Huh. That changes things a bit. I did not know about this. Do you have a link to relevant material?
Re:iPhone 6 slows down by 28% after just 4 months use on Saturday December 30, 2017 @05:11PM (#16037944)
Has anything pertaining to how long this have been going on for been revealed? Apple hiding this is definitely not reasonable.
Re:iPhone 6 slows down by 28% after just 4 months use on Saturday December 30, 2017 @04:38PM (#16037771)
I know that this article states a well-known fact at this point, but I can't overlook that it is on the homepage of a company that sells battery replacement services for iPhones.

EDIT: Also note that Apple as of today is offering battery replacement services themselves at $29. [1]

[1]: https://daringfireball.net/linked/2017/12/30/29-battery-repl...

I remember a tidbit from the Counter-Strike: Global Offensive loading screen saying that the federal GSG-9 group only has fired shots on five missions throughout their existence. Wikipedia seems to back this up with some reportedly true information[1].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GSG_9#Publicly_known_missions

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