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fyi - that font is almost illegible on chrome on x11 @ 96dpi

That was the spammy-est link I've seen in a month. I never even made it to the article behind a blitzkrieg of adds.

I would love to see this catch on all over the country. There always have been, and always will be trade offs that often do make rail travel (in the abstract) superior to commercia…

Ah, but do not spellcheckers use the capitalization to detect proper nouns in the first place?

Are there any known reasonably accurate algorithms for taking all caps English words, and converting it to mixed case?

You honestly don't think people in the 2030s are not going to think smart phones and tablets are "shitty useless junk"? There are plenty of people now feel that way. Also I think y…

Good riddance! Back in my day we had character cells, and we had pixels. Is it not self evident that the entire browser ecosystem is wholly dysfunctional and psychotic? Personally,…

thank you

Most people have probably encountered a book of say a few hundred text pages on cheaper "regular" paper, with a bundle of a few pages of color glossy photos in the middle. Does thi…

While I would love a contemporary performance computer that can be trusted, no such device is even remotely possible in the manufacturing and fabrication ecosystems of today. Consi…

I've seen plenty of windows centric IT departments that would try to ban this from being installed. This act of admission will just be to iconoclastic for all those really enterpri…

let me guess (the keyboard is the give away) when you say unix, you mean osx. Yeah, that terminal induces rage, and the bash is like 40 years stale.

As a human, I'm pulling for the human. As a computer programmer, I'm pulling for the human. As a romantic, I'm pulling for the human. As a fan of science fiction, I'm pulling for t…

I installed it on simh a few weeks ago. It took a few tries, but compared to the netbsd which I never did get 100%, it was a smooth ride. Now where did I save that...

Are they still offering the C1? It's absent from the pricing page.

This peaked my curiosity since I'm considering moving there. You must be exaggerating a bit since I just looked it up, and around the winter solstice the sun rise set times are lik…

Life Tip: Most of the time, things at work are not going to go your way. Most of the time, you will not be rewarded, recognized, or even treated fairly. You will also always see ot…

> 1 intermediate engineer = $65,000 CAD / year = $48,888 USD / year The gross annual amount of an employee's base salary is very different than the cost of hiring an employee with …

In any case where one has to mitigate the problems of bringing windows into the mix. At my last job I had several bridges to windows only systems and silliness that exposed out to …

The font rendered with iceweasel on debian 8 is illegible.

Flame bait: We need to surrender all firearms, encryption, and gold to our serf lords so as to ease the pain of "feeling the Bern". plus my obligatory comments: -believing apple is…

Why does this make me think of RAM doublers from the win 3.1 era?

lol

Ran out of RAM or address space? I've run out of RAM trying to ridiculous stuff like native builds on tiny embedded systems (due to whack code bases that wouldn't cross compile). T…

1. Sounds like a market opportunity for a beginner oriented forum, that somehow incentivizes experts to help constructively. 2. The number one sign an expert is an impostor is the …