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mrunseen commented on A useless infinite scroll experiment   futile.ch/en/... · Posted by u/dolin_ch
totetsu · 2 days ago
iOS health app could track this like steps. Total distance scrolled on your phone.
mrunseen · 2 days ago
There was a iOS jailbreak tweak called Treadmill where it exactly done that. Pretty cool to me.

https://www.idownloadblog.com/2016/01/31/ryan-petrich-treadm...

mrunseen commented on Show HN: Open Scanner, an open-source document scanning app for iPhone   github.com/pencilresearch... · Posted by u/ductionist
nesk_ · a year ago
Not sure how this compares to the scanner in the native Files app? https://www.macrumors.com/how-to/scan-documents-ios-files-ap...
mrunseen · a year ago
I did not check the source code but scanning UI and outcome is exactly the same as native iOS scanner.
mrunseen commented on A symbol for the Fediverse   symbol.fediverse.info/... · Posted by u/tarball
Teknomancer · 2 years ago
It's Unicode... Of course it works.
mrunseen · 2 years ago
...and system font HN uses (Verdana) have glyph design for it, so it works.
mrunseen commented on Ask HN: Anyone using proportional fonts for coding?    · Posted by u/rpastuszak
CharlesW · 3 years ago
TLDR: 1,500 words on how iA created a variant of IBM Plex Mono with four 1.5X-width characters (m, M, w, W) because…well, it's not really clear.

And, they say, programmers use monospace fonts because it helps them catch typos. In reality, variable glyph widths make it easier to identify typos.

mrunseen · 3 years ago
m, M, w, W, %, @ and i, l, ! (and so on) are the letters that create a challenge (or a room for creativity/individuality) ad they are so wide or so narrow. Wide letters often get cramped as they need to share se witdh as narrower letters. iA thought they could just modify those “extreme” glyphs to increase legibility (and readability)
mrunseen commented on Atkinson Hyperlegible Font   brailleinstitute.org/free... · Posted by u/zdw
mrunseen · 4 years ago
It is more legible than your average "font-family: sans-serif” (aka Arial, Roboto, Helvetica) but it’s not that much of an “original idea”. For example Frutiger by Adrian Frutiger, a type family that a lot of airports use as it’s designed with legibility at long distances, or even the Verdana by Matthew Carter, ubiquitous web font that powers this and a lot of other websites’ typography that has specifically designed for legibility on low resolution screens, aren’t that less legible than this font. Still, I like the idea that some people on Braille Institute has decided to commission a typeface with a “free” license.
mrunseen commented on The Deported   laphamsquarterly.org/migr... · Posted by u/1sembiyan
samatman · 4 years ago
If it were only the burden of acknowledging the past, I might disagree with you. The survivors are long gone, and while their descendants deserve closure, and some compensation, I wouldn't hold the whole nation hostage to this debt.

Turkey continues to treat the Kurds awfully, and in recent times. Allowing Turkey into the EU without this ending completely would be an insult to the ideals of that organization.

mrunseen · 4 years ago
>Turkey continues to treat the Kurds awfully, and in recent times.

Care to elaborate?

mrunseen commented on No Army? No Problem: Defending the Home Front in Ancient Greece   historytoday.com/archive/... · Posted by u/diodorus
planetis · 4 years ago
Turkish EFES 2022 military exercise concluded just a day ago and it's scenario was landing on an enemy island. The pesident demanded that Greece demilitarize its islands in the eastern Aegean, otherwise face disaster. If that's not a clear military threat then what could it be?

Source: https://www.ekathimerini.com/news/1186488/erdogan-issues-thr...

mrunseen · 4 years ago
Aegean sea has seen a lot of military exercises with both Greece and Turkey, I remember the Medusa-10 exercise with Greece, France, Egypt and UAE (and yeah, these are the sides which clash against Turkey-backed official government in Libya) NATO Allied Land Command (in Izmir) tweeted the exercise with hashtags: #WEARENATO and #StrongerTogether. I would normally say such a weird timeline we live in but it has been like this for decades.
mrunseen commented on Apple’s hidden flight tracker app   medium.com/macoclock/appl... · Posted by u/rammy1234
TooSmugToFail · 4 years ago
I’m in Europe, running iOS 15.4.1 and it does not work for me. Tried 5-6 flights to SFO, and none of them worked.
mrunseen · 4 years ago
Does work for me for Turkish airline operators (I tried TK and PC)
mrunseen commented on Customizing Color Fonts on the Web   webkit.org/blog/12662/cus... · Posted by u/feross
jfk13 · 4 years ago
Weirdly, using Safari on macOS, clicking on the first of the "The Round Table" examples causes the page to unexpectedly reload, "because a problem occurred". Clicking on other examples doesn't do this.

Any other Mac users see that, or is it just me?

mrunseen · 4 years ago
I can reproduce same behaviour on Safari 15.5

u/mrunseen

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