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brute commented on Font with Built-In Syntax Highlighting blog.glyphdrawing.club/fo... · Posted by u/microflash

nine_k · 2 years ago

What makes it a horrible hack, as opposed to proper use of documented capabilities at a scale slightly larger than usual?

Putting animated SVG in a font [1] is a horrible hack; this one is benign.

A somehow larger stretch would be a font with a built-in spell checker, with a wavy underline under every letter that only disappears under correctly spelled words.

[1]: https://codepen.io/glukcodepen/pen/xQORev

brute · 2 years ago

Or from some months ago: Llama.ttf: A font which is also an LLM

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40766791

brute commented on Steam will drop support for Windows 7 and Windows 8 on January 1, 2024 engadget.com/steam-will-d... · Posted by u/JohnTHaller

lockhouse · 3 years ago

Windows 10 and 11 count for over 95% of Steam users on Windows.

Supporting older versions isn’t worth the effort for them anymore.

brute · 3 years ago

98% to be precise.

But still, with 132 million active monthly users, that leaves 2.4 million people who now can't access their games. So I disagree with that being "not worth the effort".

brute commented on The Kobayashi Maru of comparing dates with times zachholman.com/posts/koba... · Posted by u/holman

Laremere · 4 years ago

It depends on what you mean by timezones. 1:30am Pacific Time isn't well defined, but 1:30am PST and 1:30am PDT are.

brute · 4 years ago

Quick reminder that those timezone abbreviation are not unique (i.e. Philippine Standard Time)

https://www.timeanddate.com/time/zones/

brute commented on Robinhood, in Need of Cash, Raises $1B from Its Investors nytimes.com/2021/01/29/te... · Posted by u/coloneltcb

snickms · 5 years ago

Would it make sense for these companies to make bets against their customer's trades?

My guess it that the customers are wrong most of the time.

brute · 5 years ago

https://xkcd.com/2270/

brute commented on Scrollbar Blindness svenkadak.com/blog/scroll... · Posted by u/_maye

hellofunk · 6 years ago

Lots of countries use a 12 hour clock, that’s a strange claim to make.

brute · 6 years ago

Judging from this [1], even more countries don't use it.

[1] https://travel.stackexchange.com/questions/34950/which-large...

brute commented on FDA Approves Clinical Trials to Use Antibodies from Recovered Patients good-news.network/article... · Posted by u/BG247

tlrobinson · 6 years ago

I don't think you can ethically intentionally infect people, even volunteers, with a potentially fatal disease. Even some small percentage of young and healthy people are dying from COVID-19.

brute · 6 years ago

Do you have a source that young and healthy people are dying from COVID-19? Just curious.

The best I have is the Italian National Institute of Health (ISS) which did a study on all 2003 dead (back when that was the number). Only 5 have been under the age of 40 and all of them had medical preconditions.

There are young and healthy people that show heavy symptoms and even need ventilation, but they all seem to survive.

brute commented on Mark Text: Simple and Elegant Markdown Editor Focused on Speed and Usability marktext.app/... · Posted by u/severine

svat · 6 years ago

The important feature worth mentioning (more than “simple and elegant” and “focused on speed and usability”) is that it directly renders the Markdown (in the editor itself, not in a separate pane or window), giving a WYSIWYG feel while still being backed by a plain-text (markdown) format that if needed can be edited directly (even in an different editor). This I've found to help enormously with being distraction-free (while still having the peace of mind from not creating an irrecoverable binary blob). Of course, to someone else it may not be a big deal.

Before seeing this just now, Typora (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21458977) was the only Markdown editor I had encountered that does this, but it is not open-source. Another was the halfway-in-between (shows both syntax and rendering) Abricotine (https://github.com/brrd/Abricotine) which has the sense to mention it as the main feature: “Markdown editor with inline preview” and “you can preview your document directly in the text editor rather than in a side pane”.

Are there any other editors like this?

brute · 6 years ago

http://www.inkcode.net/qute does it quite similar (on a paragraph basis instead on a word basis) and it's open-source

brute commented on A brief history of government efforts to stop people from wearing masks qz.com/1721901/hong-kong-... · Posted by u/wei_jok

tantalor · 6 years ago

> "passive weapons" means all kinds of protections

Please provide some reference, that sounds absurd.

brute · 6 years ago

Well, it's true. Here [1] is the corresponding law, here [2] is wikipedia with some expamples what counts as passive weapons (plastic film, basecaps reinforced with plastic, gasmasks, knee pads, … ) and here [3] is a case where a paramedic was sentenced for wearing a helmet.

[1] https://dejure.org/gesetze/VersG/17a.html

[2] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schutzwaffe

[3] www.labournet.de/interventionen/grundrechte/grundrechte-all/demonstrationsrecht/schutz-durch-selbstschutz-demonstrationssanitaeter-wurde-wegen-vermummung-und-passivbewaffnung-verurteilt/

brute commented on The internet is an SEO landfill docs.sendwithses.com/rand... · Posted by u/itom

dheera · 7 years ago

It would be awesome if Google had up/downvote buttons like Reddit and use them to eliminate all the fluff in search results, even if on a targeted community basis. For example if a recipe has no pictures, too many ads, not clear instructions, or no equivalent volume measurements (e.g. "4 grams sugar (about 1 tsp)") I'm likely to downvote it, and those properties can be learned from multiple downvotes.

brute · 7 years ago

then SEO would turn towards having an army of bots upvoting your product and downvoting the competitor. And if you have something in between to detect bots, users wouldn't want to use it (who would solve a captcha to help optimize search results?) and SEO would find ways around it

brute commented on Fyne: Cross-Platform GUI in Go Based on Material Design github.com/fyne-io/fyne... · Posted by u/0xedb

brute · 7 years ago

> Fyne ships with two themes by default, "light" and "dark". […] The default is dark

As someone who uses dark-themes for absolutely everything, which sometimes requires quite some hassle (I am looking at you Slack), I welcome the trend to offer a dark theme next to a light one. And having dark as default is even better. Thank you!