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    Comment #38218536

    I've been using it for years, just want to say thank you, given the occasion.

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    Comment #37298183

    Your rendering issue sounds like the one described here: https://blog.vladzahorodnii.com/2021/12/31/more-consistent-f...

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    Comment #37157997

    As I understand it https://github.com/hyperfiddle/electric provides an abstraction at least over the network divide.

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    Comment #35476983

    > I base that on the fact that people seemed to spend quite a bit of time trying to find the phrase "the confetti has left the cannon" that GPT-4 phrased. It seems Google search ha…

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    Comment #24369104

    It looks like a fork of Luxi Mono with slashed zero, which is available in ttf. And there is a more modern version of it with better character coverage -- Go Mono.

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    Comment #22172795

    There is a Reading List plugin for Calibre

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    Comment #18441873

    Also worth mentioning: Computer Modern (sans-serif/serif/monospace) DejaVu (sans-serif/serif/monospace) Fira (sans-serif/monospace) Inria (sans-serif/serif) Libertinus (sans-serif/…

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    Comment #15657848

    `r` is a little weird with its wide flat top, otherwise it's a great font. Would love to see Greek and Cyrillic support too.

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    Comment #15351919

    Here's mine (fx55): http://i.cubeupload.com/AvH2Cc.png profile1: 6 windows, ~900 tabs; profile2: 2 windows, ~300 tabs. cold start takes about 2 minutes (on nvme ssd), next are slig…

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    Comment #14886423

    See also: http://practicaltypography.com/billionaires-typewriter.html

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    Comment #14823573

    curious what fonts do you use and find acceptable?

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    Comment #14693667

    L’Histoire de l’art (History of art) lectures by Élie Faure

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    Comment #14391192

    Why does one use `font-weight: 200` for code?

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    Comment #14301146

    preventing future crimes

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    Comment #14260240

    https://openhatch.org/ https://www.codetriage.com/

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    Comment #14254099

    cargo-culting haskell

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    Comment #14250740

    check out https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/column-reader...

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    Comment #14155200

    > Admittedly, mine is not Thinkpad nuff said

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    Comment #13747948

    You are not alone, but I just use bookmarks for that. Is using Pocket any different from that, e.g. does it save pages internally so if the original site goes down the page will st…

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    Comment #13747918

    There is an option in `about:config` for that -- `services.sync.sendTabToDevice.enabled`, disabled by default. Suggest you to enable it and try it out.

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    Are there universally accepted quality metrics of a program and its source code?

    Are there universal tools or methods to calculate these metrics? Can a program have low quality code but be high-quality for its users? Does quality of the source code depend on th…

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    Comment #13506434

    Why do you think some of the so-called hacker languages were pretty popular at a time (perl, lisp), and not the others (forth, apl?)

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    Comment #13451341

    try this, as simple as in chrome https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/profilist/