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abdisalan

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    Comment #46435473

    Looks nearly identical to Helvetica when I switch back and forth with inspector tool. Some letters are different and there’s some kerning changes but large parts look the same. at …

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    Comment #42175826

    You’re absolutely right. My rational brain agrees and chalks it up to poor project management. However… emotions run high when you have zero idea why something isn’t working and th…

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    Comment #42175679

    I’m curious, how do you measure the pulse of a project that old? Do people still talk about it? Or that not even necessary — use it until it breaks and otherwise don’t think about …

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    Comment #42175501

    Hold on, you had to do binary surgery using an OpenSSL version from an old box you had? I salute the dedication.

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    Comment #42175458

    Wow, that’s honestly impressive. If there was an option to guarantee versions could exist for X amount of years (maybe even months?) then that would greatly help the stability of p…

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    Comment #36994728

    Let's see: * uses a mix of sources from different years * a lot of guesses eg. arbitrary calculation with international students and Jewish SAT scores * Uses Mean SAT Scores nation…

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    Comment #21608901

    Or you could see it as man + (something) -- i.e. better than man. It really depends on how you take a normal word and assign an agenda to it.