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mellonaut

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    For those that now find themselves inspired to type the Snellen E, the internet provides an OFL typeface that scratches your itch here¹ (this unclearly licensed modification² even …

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    Comment #43611656

    Twenty years since Linus Torvalds committed "Initial revision of "git", the information manager from hell"!

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    Comment #41589530

    There is a fork of this[1] that includes programming ligatures, which might make this a more viable FOSS alternative to Comic-Code mentioned elsewhere. [1] https://github.com/wayou…

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    Comment #40142032

    The last program on the examples page⁰ truly is amazing: A guy (called Piet!) saw an artwork that reminded him of Piet (the lang) and tried executing it¹. > It ran! [...] This is p…

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    Comment #36532355

    Thanks! That's a nice resource, some of those I did not yet know about

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    Ask HN: Can you view tweets while logged out?

    I don't have a twitter account, nor do I want one. I do, however, occasionally want to read a tweet since relevant information is shared there. Since today it seems I am no longer …

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    Comment #36394269

    within 15min of you posting this, hitler has become the #1 ranked thing on the leaderboard

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    Comment #36123078

    It's not Tetris but it's not Not Tetris¹ ¹) https://stabyourself.net/nottetris2

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    Comment #34981470

    It's safe to assume this page assumes some prior knowledge of Tauri[0] and Vue[1], which would answer your question :) [0] https://tauri.app [1] https://vuejs.org

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    What an incredible feeling of self-agency and power it must be to be able to say “I am not dumb” after being called a dumb mute by everybody all your life. Amazing.

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    Comment #34066858

    Oh wow I coincidentally posted something about the same XKCD strip in my reply to the person above, but have never come across these versions before, thank you!

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    Comment #34066837

    Though I completely agree with you on a rational basis (the first string being coined by someone who is not even in NASA¹), for some reason anthropomorphising space robots² gives m…

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    Comment #34065854

    NASA apparently builds in onion cutting features in all of their space robots, after Opportunity’s “my battery is getting low and it’s getting dark”.

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    Comment #33372653

    This is true. They are a rival creative suite, and not a clone. For some things you will need to adjust your mental model, for which their in-house video tutorial series¹ are quite…

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    Comment #33371998

    I am in no way affiliated with them, but if you want a great alternative for the creative suite that HAS pantone support¹, definitely try out the Affinity counterparts: https://aff…

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    Comment #33371979

    I am in no way shape or form affiliated with them other than an extremely satisfied user. I know Hacker News loves not having to rent their software, and I thought you might apprec…

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    Comment #33216825

    In this case I don’t think it’s as bad as you make it look. Comments are hidden by repo owners because they are off-topic. They might be considered similar to HN [DEAD] comments, w…

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    Comment #32898406

    If you want to watch basically the same information deducted in similar matter in video format, presented by a mathematician who makes hilarious youtube videos with very high produ…