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Re: Hot Dog Linux – Horrible Obsolete Typeface and Dreadful Onscreen Graphics

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Post by Tabular-Iceberg »

moltke wrote: post #24
ForOldHack wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"badly-written Perl scripts..." You are much too kind to the monkeys who put this together. The config is nice, but Chicago? Chicago font? I thought that was buried deep, long ago.

Am I weird for liking Chicago?

I like Chicago too, but only the original 12 pt. bitmap version. For some reason it never looks quite right when scaled, I wonder why.

Re: Hot Dog Linux – Horrible Obsolete Typeface and Dreadful Onscreen Graphics

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Post by cycomanic »

skissane wrote: post #71
cycomanic wrote: post #66

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I agree with you that the US has a weird fixation on race. As a German I always cringe when I hear the term, because nobody (even strongly bigotet people) would use the term for humans since the 40s. And there is really no biological justification. Skin color does not correlate with genetic differences, in other words two people with different skin colors can be much more similar to two other people with the same. Th…

> That doesn't mean that there isn't racism and I'm not sure if a country like Australia has "racial blindness" (whatever that means). Australia has huge issues with xenophobia and attitudes which would be called racist in the US are widespread, they just don't focus on race but on ethnicity instead (which IMO is a much better term) I completely agree Australia has serious issues with xenophobia, and ethnicity-based…

Very well put, I completely agree with you.

Re: Hot Dog Linux – Horrible Obsolete Typeface and Dreadful Onscreen Graphics

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Post by gsliepen »

They made the Atari ST theme extra terrible by having the desktop render like it's a 320x200 screen, making the window decorations look way bigger and blockier than they would do if GEM itself was running on a 640x400 screen. Also a missed opportunity is replacing the standard xterm font so it matches the system font of the desktop they are emulating. But they do live up to their name!

Re: Hot Dog Linux – Horrible Obsolete Typeface and Dreadful Onscreen Graphics

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Post by amatecha »

zaps wrote: post #36
mbg721 wrote: post #25

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Do you enjoy casserole that calls itself pizza, and roast beef sub-sandwiches that demand dipping?

I like when they put weird shit on hot dogs

If you ever visit Vancouver (or apparently LA or Santa Monica) you have to try out Japadog! Seriously, check these out. Can never go wrong with the Terimayo (or even better, Spicy Cheese Terimayo)... http://www.japadog.com/menu_En.html haha :D

Re: Hot Dog Linux – Horrible Obsolete Typeface and Dreadful Onscreen Graphics

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Post by nineteen999 »

drewzero1 wrote: post #83
gotaquestion wrote: post #4

Mac Classic (Color) was so dang tidy.

System 7 was great with a color monitor. Subtle, clean, efficient without being boring or sterile.

Yeah, but without preemptive multitasking, it's like putting lipstick on a pig.

Re: Hot Dog Linux – Horrible Obsolete Typeface and Dreadful Onscreen Graphics

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Post by alcover »

hnlmorg wrote: post #78
layer8 wrote: post #43

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> CSV files.... that encode JSON?! We need a new schema language with the ability to specify such cross-format …formats.

I use jsonlines on those occasions https://jsonlines.org/examples/

This is nice. But less space-efficient than CSV when its strictly tabular, since CSV has columns legend on first row allowing 'pure' rows, whereas JSON will have to key every field, on every row.

Re: Hot Dog Linux – Horrible Obsolete Typeface and Dreadful Onscreen Graphics

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Post by astrange »

moltke wrote: post #24
ForOldHack wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"badly-written Perl scripts..." You are much too kind to the monkeys who put this together. The config is nice, but Chicago? Chicago font? I thought that was buried deep, long ago.

Am I weird for liking Chicago?

Chicago is a great font. It’s also strangely popular in Japan, used in video games and I’ve seen several stores’ signs set in it:

https://www.alamy.com/stock-photo-exterior-shop-front-of-cop...

Not so great kerning though.

Re: Hot Dog Linux – Horrible Obsolete Typeface and Dreadful Onscreen Graphics

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Post by severak_cz »

alcover wrote: post #88
hnlmorg wrote: post #78

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I use jsonlines on those occasions https://jsonlines.org/examples/

This is nice. But less space-efficient than CSV when its strictly tabular, since CSV has columns legend on first row allowing 'pure' rows, whereas JSON will have to key every field, on every row.

you can have json lines where each line is json array
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