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See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22206663 for discussion.

(1) I acknowledge that the author already states that "[they are] quite well aware that this uses Unicode not ASCII." (2) Having said that, as a request to everybody for future tex…

Note well: "tobacco use" is a umbrella term that includes e-cigarette use (with nicotine), since the nicotine in vape juice is derived from tobacco plants. Also note: "combustible …

Note: 090310.pdf (9 March 2010) is an older version of the textbook. The latest revision of the textbook PDF (091117.pdf, 9 November 2017) is available at: → http://web4.cs.ucl.ac.…

To add to this: "Why CUDA 'Cores' Aren't Actually Cores, ft. David Kanter" (Gamers Nexus, 2018 April 18, 18 min.) https://youtu.be/x-N6pjBbyY0

(I have not tried either of these solutions, so I'm not sure if they actually work.) Although still separate applications, Karabiner and Scroll Reverser are both free. (I mention t…

Curious: (1) Do you have some screenshots demonstrating this issue and (2) perhaps an example PDF that others could download for the purpose of issue reproduction? (I have not seen…

For anyone that wants to download the books, I strongly recommend downloading the PDF archive on Archive.org because the image scans within the PDFs are of much higher quality. htt…

Here's an older version dated September 15, 2016 (which is 1 year, 5 months ago): https://www.ssc.wisc.edu/~nwilliam/Econ702_files/abch.pdf

Sprite_tm’s presentation at the 2017 Hackaday Superconference... “Small Fruit: Disembiggening the Macintosh Plus” (31 min.) → https://youtu.be/V-PiNVPp5h0

It is a grave accent. Something which was and still largely is of little use to many that grew up in United States knowing only English. So, such users abused and re-purposed it as…

In all reality, it was originally named after Shockwave Flash, but the extension meaning was retcon'd to Small Web Format to avoid confusion with Shockwave.

It's marketing. Blatant ad. System76 had build quality issues in the past; no idea if they've fixed their issues in the present.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode_font#List_of_Unicode_f...

The trick is to use a font that has ligatures, but not to use the ligature characters directly. Let the presentation choose the glyphs to display, and let the encoded characters re…

Ah! That explains the cruft I've seen today with the mess of truncated tweets with links to themselves (twitter.com/i/web/status/…) at the end of the tweet text. (If you use a thir…

Also check out https://www.w3.org/History/1991-WWW-NeXT/Implementation/

Went to a dark room with an Apple Remote; let my eyes adjust for a little while. Pressed it many times; I couldn't see the infrared coming from the LED with my naked eye. (But the …

I don't know about Apple, but I know lots of companies that will avoid using the registered logos of others whenever possible, as it opens up the possibility for being bound by ano…

Bay Area FreeBSD User Group (BAFUG) August 2015 meeting. There's a video recording available at http://www.nextbsd.org/jordan-hubbard-visits-bafug/