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As someone who isn't in academia, I've heard of this being a problem before, but in the context of research related to computer science, it seems like private research at companies…

This article about async in Python helped me understand it pretty well, since it explains them in terms of coroutines, which are very intuitive for me: https://mleue.com/posts/yiel…

That's what I mean; it's often easier to use a font that doesn't have ligatures (like the NL variant) than to use a font with ligatures and hope your editor lets you disable ligatu…

If you have a lot of different symbols, it makes sense that ligatures would help to distinguish them more easily. So, ligatures for Haskell symbols also probably help, since there …

However, not all IDEs, text editors, and terminal emulators support disabling the use of ligatures, so it's often easiest to just switch to a font that doesn't include them if you …

>"Rust is so hard to learn that the AI doesn’t get it" is a bad place to be for rust. I don't think this is really a big point against Rust; in my experience, ChatGPT doesn't write…

I'm using a Dell laptop, but I'm running vanilla GNOME on EndeavourOS (took out the distro-specific customizations in the installer), and its trackpad support seems perfect on mine…

Compared side-by-side, Aptos looks rounder and less square, and it has more natural looking curves. The problem is that differences in fonts are kind of subtle when their goals are…

When they refer to Swisss typography, they're likely referring to the International Typographic Style, which is also known as the Swiss Style (it's on Wikipedia). It's a style of g…