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> Before GUIs, interacting with a computer was limited to strange terminal commands [...] Even though the strict syntax has been replaced with natural language This post, and parti…

> Without AI there is no future US economy I'm already on it, man, don't need to convince me!

> Xeyes is cute until one considers the practical implications… what's the problem with xeyes? it reads data on your computer and displays it. Just like vim or cat. If, for some re…

> the art of this game is to extract value which you did not create in common parlance, theft

It's not that inconvenient if you omit unnecessary closing tags: first second what ever I find it simpler and cleaner than any of the markdown table markups

I don't know how accurate is what you explain, but the fact that Eichmann was not tried at Nuremberg certainly does not help your credibility.

i want all occurrences of the same glyph to be identical. This is essentially impossible to obtain with blurry "antialiased" fonts.

> there's still something mystical and unintuitive for me about the area under an entire curve being related to the derivative the discrete version is much clearer to me. Suppose y…

This is cool, but my problem is the opposite: I have a modern laptop screen with tiny pixels. What I need is then a huge bitmap font... does anybody have any?

Conspicuously missing to this list is uwe's ttyp0 [0]. One of the few bitmap fonts (with terminus) having somewhat complete unicode support and going to very large pixel sizes, so …

I'm probably your twin, separated at birth... may you share your bitmap font? > I don't believe in anti-aliasing for a coding font, not even on a retina display This is a very good…

> whoa there, pardner! cannot even read this thing. Guess I'm not human enough...

> the city announced that the land is now paid parking to the city what a strange way to put it... why didn't they just say that they are not using any more taxpayer money to finan…

> Paris can be cold and rainy I cycle in Paris every week, and the only annoying experience climate-wise is the extreme heat you can get some days in july and august. If it's cold …

> why fortran? why not? the language is straightforward and loops are fast. It is portable and your code will work unchanged for the next 50 years. It may be a bit verbose, but tha…

but nobody argues against undo/redo in gimp! going by your text editor analogy, we are arguing against implementing undo/redo as a "non-destructive delete", based on adding backspa…

> I always found it odd that scaling down an image now and then scaling it back to its original size 2 seconds later with the same tool resulted in a loss of quality I'm honestly b…

> unless the participants in the deal are being coerced. Here's the nice thing about it: they are! If they don't work (for any of the equally exploitative companies in their countr…

> It sounds like Onlyfans is exploiting workers and their own customers. But this is the basic principle of capitalism. The company exploits workers (in order to obtain a net benef…