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Smylers

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    Comment #43495015

    That “gradual decline” is an artifact of your maths, in which you're gradually changing the weight of recent years. Consider a sequence with an extreme drop-off: 100, 100, 100, 100…

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    Comment #27302779

    Some of my stuff is in Raku, which indeed supports Unicode operators. But other coding isn't, and it'd be nice to use ligature fonts for those.

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    Comment #27301466

    Thanks. I'd previously tried and failed a couple of times to get a NeoVim gui installed, mainly because I wanted to try one of those ligature fonts that display -> as → and the lik…

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    Comment #24188668

    I avoid that by replying inline, discarding the history of multiple-quoted emails from top-repliers. Everybody else uses Outlook, but nobody has yet complained. For sending emails …

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    Comment #24188581

    One of my main reasons for using Mutt is precisely the opposite: with mbsync I have copies of all emails on my laptop, so I can read, search, and compose emails when I don't have a…

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    Comment #19831502

    In what way doesn't it work? This is with my ISP's DNS (using which I can visit https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/ in a browser): $ host -t a lancaster.ac.uk lancaster.ac.uk has address …