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A technical note: OpenType Layout does have a way of representing the appropriate _cursor positions_ to use for components of a ligature[1], which is a good proxy for where the ind…

This is definitely true, but there is a useful distinction between the usual evolutionary competition between species in an ecosystem and the very sharp situation of an ecologicall…

It is significantly more than that. One major example: quebec has a separate legal system for civil matters, based on french civil law. ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quebec_law )…

If you're going to post quite sensationalist speculation please at least provide some attempt at a source or rationale. It doesn't really pass the sniff test that any goverment wou…

I don't think there's some huge point beyond exploring an interesting question, and raising it in a forum where it's possible some people with more specific domain knowledge might …

I remember reading in one of John McPhee's geology books (collected as [1], and one of the best things I've ever read) about a particular way that diamonds can form; it had a name …

In reality, how many people are regularly using github search without having a github account? Can this change really be expected to bring in a meaningful number of users? Trying t…

I’ve smoked weed before bed most nights for at least a decade, and if I happen to skip a night I… still sleep fine, unless I’ve had no exercise that day.

Hinting might be a red herring here: these font formats are unsafe almost by design, since they consistently rely on a pattern of reading a value out of a chunk of memory and then …

I… don’t really follow this take? I agree that Lee Valley occupies a position at the top of the market, but I don’t think it’s about luxury, at all. My father was a cabinet maker, …

'insidious authoritarianism' is a curious way of describing two not-unreasonable proposals that are presumably aimed at making american democracy more representative and accessible…

Does holding your breath mean “don’t exhale” or “don’t inhale”?

Thank you for sharing. I'm sorry.

> - The black market is always cheaper. anecdata: I'm in canada, which has legalized marijuana recently. The black market is cheaper, but all but the most die-hard stoners I know l…

'illegal drugs' is a pretty broad brush, and treating opiods and psychedelics equivalently is silly. Surely treatment, education and research would all be far easier alongside decr…

This post refers to full-time employees. You don't really need to fire TVCs; they're generally on shorter term contracts, which you can choose not to renew.

I mean, it is expressed pretty clearly in the article; it uses Nix to manage external dependencies, and manages setting link paths and other build bookkeeping.

I hope I cover this somewhat in the 'motivations' section. Keypaths are used heavily in SwiftUI, and my interest in them came from working on trying to find ergonomic patterns for …

Really enjoyed this article on « statistical armor » (of which this is presumably an example) https://www.tanknology.co.uk/post/statistical-armour

As a body increases in size, the surface area increases as a square but volume increases as a cube. The more volume, the more heat, and after a certain point your available surface…

Something I haven't seen mentioned yet is one of the most annoying things about regional indicator symbols, which is that interpreting them correctly requires arbitrary backtrackin…

I agree completely. Anytime I’m looking at a parser library I just shake my head and close that browser tab. I’m invariably going to want a hand-rolled recursive descent parser two…

Ignoring the other blatant problems with this interpretation (e.g. that social class was highly correlated with fitness) I suspect that the nobility were intermixing their genes qu…