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@JBert said in In other news today...:
Spanish man takes goldfish for a walk, police is not amused and fines him for violating the corona measures, then posts this image to Twitter:
That reminds me, I'm about 7 years overdue to take my snake for a walk.
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@Benjamin-Hall said in In other news today...:
It forces me to read at the word level, rather than taking in whole blocks of text at a time because the wildly-varying spacing breaks whatever algorithms/heuristics my brain uses.
Really?
Proper skimming is easier on multi column because you go straight down the middle. Wider forces a Z shape.
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@Karla on something the size of a novel, I read at the paragraph level. Narrow text and variable spacing cause weird errors in visual alignment, so I end up losing the flow and have to re-read. I read novels at about 3-4 pages per minute normally, so having to backtrack is a huge cost. And I've noticed that justification is correlated with those errors.
Those lines that have like 3 words on them (so huge spaces) just break my flow entirely.
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@Benjamin-Hall said in In other news today...:
@Karla on something the size of a novel, I read at the paragraph level. Narrow text and variable spacing cause weird errors in visual alignment, so I end up losing the flow and have to re-read. I read novels at about 3-4 pages per minute normally, so having to backtrack is a huge cost. And I've noticed that justification is correlated with those errors.
Those lines that have like 3 words on them (so huge spaces) just break my flow entirely.
Stop speed reading your novels than?
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@Dragoon I believe @Benjamin-Hall likes rather big works, so slowing down would take too long...
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@Dragoon said in In other news today...:
@Benjamin-Hall said in In other news today...:
@Karla on something the size of a novel, I read at the paragraph level. Narrow text and variable spacing cause weird errors in visual alignment, so I end up losing the flow and have to re-read. I read novels at about 3-4 pages per minute normally, so having to backtrack is a huge cost. And I've noticed that justification is correlated with those errors.
Those lines that have like 3 words on them (so huge spaces) just break my flow entirely.
Stop speed reading your novels than?
If I slow down, then not only do I not get more out of them, I get distracted. Which is bad. Because then I don't finish (or forget what it's about entirely). The better the book, the faster I read (generally). Unless it's really complex. I'm a fast reader. In college, I once counted how much fiction (not including school stuff) I read over a 10 day period. It came out to something like 14,000 pages.
For example, I read Harry Potter 6 in something like 2.5 hours, cover to cover, and retained enough to pass a quiz from my (Potter-obsessive) family. And that was something like 600-700 pages.
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I can push 6-700 wpm when I need to, but my normal speed is around half that. When I am reading fast, weird errors really throw me off but I don't experience that when I read slower.
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@Benjamin-Hall said in In other news today...:
@Karla on something the size of a novel, I read at the paragraph level. Narrow text and variable spacing cause weird errors in visual alignment, so I end up losing the flow and have to re-read. I read novels at about 3-4 pages per minute normally, so having to backtrack is a huge cost. And I've noticed that justification is correlated with those errors.
Those lines that have like 3 words on them (so huge spaces) just break my flow entirely.
I don't read novels. I only read
books to learn stuff.INB4: Then are you doing here. and
Fake edit
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@Karla said in In other news today...:
@Benjamin-Hall said in In other news today...:
@Karla on something the size of a novel, I read at the paragraph level. Narrow text and variable spacing cause weird errors in visual alignment, so I end up losing the flow and have to re-read. I read novels at about 3-4 pages per minute normally, so having to backtrack is a huge cost. And I've noticed that justification is correlated with those errors.
Those lines that have like 3 words on them (so huge spaces) just break my flow entirely.
I don't read novels. I only read
books to learn stuff.INB4: Then are you doing here. and
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On the flip side, I really only read novels/fiction. Sure, I read lots of stuff online, but rarely long-form. And I've learned more from fiction than I have from all the textbooks I've read. To be fair, I never bought/read most of my textbooks--I only bought them if I had to do problems from them (except in grad school). Because textbooks are expensive and boring.
Other non-fiction? Ehh. I read fiction to escape from this dreary reality. I did read the entire World Book 1980 encyclopedias multiple times growing up, however...
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@Benjamin-Hall said in In other news today...:
I did read the entire World Book 1980 encyclopedias multiple times growing up, however...
I was an elitist with encyclopedias and hated World Book.
I was biased, I had Collier's in my bedroom as a kid.
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@Karla said in In other news today...:
@Benjamin-Hall said in In other news today...:
I did read the entire World Book 1980 encyclopedias multiple times growing up, however...
I was an elitist with encyclopedias and hated World Book.
I was biased, I had Collier's in my bedroom as a kid.
I didn't have a choice. That was what we had. And this was the late 80s/early 90s, so it was a bit out of date. But it was by the dinner table, and I can't eat without also reading. It's a family quirk.
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@Benjamin-Hall said in In other news today...:
@Karla said in In other news today...:
@Benjamin-Hall said in In other news today...:
I did read the entire World Book 1980 encyclopedias multiple times growing up, however...
I was an elitist with encyclopedias and hated World Book.
I was biased, I had Collier's in my bedroom as a kid.
I didn't have a choice. That was what we had. And this was the late 80s/early 90s, so it was a bit out of date. But it was by the dinner table, and I can't eat without also reading. It's a family quirk.
Mine was 70s/early 80s and also out of date.
I did read novels at that age, because my parents always left books laying around the house (I do wonder what happened to all of them-we didn't have them when we moved to a new house when I was 12ish and I was estranged from 14 to 30ish).
I have an irrational fear of general anesthesia because I read Coma by Robin Cook when I was in 5th grade.
EDIT: I realized they could have been moved to the storage in roof of our garage (which I didn't know existed until my dad gave me my mom's china about 5 years ago-she died when I was 10).
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@Benjamin-Hall said in In other news today...:
I can't eat without also reading
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@Benjamin-Hall said in In other news today...:
full justification is an abomination across the board. Hard to read, does messy things with alignment. Left justification is the way to go.
When combined with (good) hyphenenation and not using excessively narrow columns, full justification works very nicely and looks amazingly more professional. Spreading an average of a third to half a word's length of space throughout a line makes for a much more pleasant experience (as you're not adding much to each place where you're padding out). But it depends on having good hyphenation and not cramming everything too narrow.
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@Benjamin-Hall said in In other news today...:
I can't eat without also reading.
I can. I'm proud of being able to stop reading (including looking up obscure words on my phone) long enough to get a meal down politely.
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@Benjamin-Hall said in In other news today...:
I did read the entire World Book 1980 encyclopedias multiple times growing up, however...
Ditto... and their huge dictionary taught me vocabulary and how to write letters and cursive writing before I hit kindergarten...
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@dkf said in In other news today...:
I'm proud of being able to stop reading (including looking up obscure words on my phone) long enough to get a meal down politely.
That seems like a waste of time. Do you at least listen to a podcast or similar while eating?
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@cvi said in In other news today...:
@dkf said in In other news today...:
I'm proud of being able to stop reading (including looking up obscure words on my phone) long enough to get a meal down politely.
That seems like a waste of time. Do you at least listen to a podcast or similar while eating?
Does having a family count?
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@M_Adams said in In other news today...:
@Benjamin-Hall said in In other news today...:
I did read the entire World Book 1980 encyclopedias multiple times growing up, however...
Ditto... and their huge dictionary taught me vocabulary and how to write letters and cursive writing before I hit kindergarten...
I still can't write
legible cursive.
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@Karla said in In other news today...:
@M_Adams said in In other news today...:
@Benjamin-Hall said in In other news today...:
I did read the entire World Book 1980 encyclopedias multiple times growing up, however...
Ditto... and their huge dictionary taught me vocabulary and how to write letters and cursive writing before I hit kindergarten...
I still can't write
legible cursive.Mine’s become ummm, idiosyncratic, over time.
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in In other news today...:
Can someone explain to me how this particular class of bugs is even possible?
Someone reverted the change from a couple years ago? (I know we have that string in one of these threads)
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@Karla said in In other news today...:
@Benjamin-Hall said in In other news today...:
I did read the entire World Book 1980 encyclopedias multiple times growing up, however...
I was an elitist with encyclopedias and hated World Book.
I was biased, I had Collier's in my bedroom as a kid.
I grew up with Encyclopedia Americana. (don't remember what year it was, I seem to remember there were a couple "extra" books for add-on years)
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@dkf said in In other news today...:
Does having a family count?
Dunno. Do they talk a lot while eating?
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@dkf said in In other news today...:
@cvi said in In other news today...:
@dkf said in In other news today...:
I'm proud of being able to stop reading (including looking up obscure words on my phone) long enough to get a meal down politely.
That seems like a waste of time. Do you at least listen to a podcast or similar while eating?
Does having a family count?
No.
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@kazitor said in In other news today...:
Suffice to say, modern fonts are so much more than glyph outlines. Of note here is the substitution table (GSUB), with as many subtables as you want for replacing sequences of one or more glyphs with one or more others, including by surrounding context.
Subtables which can be self-referencing. Recursion puts anything 80% of the way to Turing-completeness.I don't doubt fonts are their own whole wacky world of possibilities, the question is, is that stuff necessary to render text properly, or is it just nonsense that has accumulated over years that could just be replaced with simpler rules?
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@brie said in In other news today...:
Holy fuck...
The price of "Get this off my lawn. Now. I've other shit I need to put there. By the way, you're paying transport costs." went negative.
The price of what the people getting it off that lawn will be charging will not be going negative any time soon. Because Transport Costs. And Profit.
https://seekingalpha.com/article/4333929-oil-price-might-go-negative-bullish-for-wti
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@Luhmann said in In other news today...:
@brie said in In other news today...:
your life didn't really exist if it wasn't plastered all over Facebook
And your sports activity isn't real if it's not on Strava.
Or onlyfans.
I jest...
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@Dragoon said in In other news today...:
works in the DosBox emulator, and takes advantage of some of the particular architecture
"...bytecount in the supporting libraries not included..."
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@Dragoon said in In other news today...:
@Benjamin-Hall said in In other news today...:
@Karla on something the size of a novel, I read at the paragraph level. Narrow text and variable spacing cause weird errors in visual alignment, so I end up losing the flow and have to re-read. I read novels at about 3-4 pages per minute normally, so having to backtrack is a huge cost. And I've noticed that justification is correlated with those errors.
Those lines that have like 3 words on them (so huge spaces) just break my flow entirely.
Stop speed reading your novels than?
Premature education?
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@anonymous234 said in In other news today...:
@kazitor said in In other news today...:
Suffice to say, modern fonts are so much more than glyph outlines. Of note here is the substitution table (GSUB), with as many subtables as you want for replacing sequences of one or more glyphs with one or more others, including by surrounding context.
Subtables which can be self-referencing. Recursion puts anything 80% of the way to Turing-completeness.I don't doubt fonts are their own whole wacky world of possibilities, the question is, is that stuff necessary to render text properly, or is it just nonsense that has accumulated over years that could just be replaced with simpler rules?
Here's a nice research topic for you: Music notation fonts. I'm sure wackiness is involved.
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@Karla said in In other news today...:
@Benjamin-Hall said in In other news today...:
I did read the entire World Book 1980 encyclopedias multiple times growing up, however...
I was an elitist with encyclopedias and hated World Book.
I was biased, I had Collier's in my bedroom as a kid.
My parents got a set of Colliers in the 90s. I didn't read it every day or anything like that but it helped with school projects and things like that for a few years before the internet got huge
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Here's the code to the JavaScript version of is-promise:
module.exports = isPromise; module.exports.default = isPromise; function isPromise(obj) { return !!obj && (typeof obj === 'object' || typeof obj === 'function') && typeof obj.then === 'function'; }
And here's the TypeScript version:
declare function isPromise<T, S>(obj: Promise<T> | S): obj is Promise<T>; export default isPromise;
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Unsurprisingly no-one learned anything from the LeftPad palaver.
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@loopback0 There is this gem from the Twatter thread though:
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During one point in the meeting, Platzer states that “I’d like to introduce my cat,” and then picks up the animal before throwing the cat off-screen.
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@Karla said in In other news today...:
@M_Adams said in In other news today...:
@Benjamin-Hall said in In other news today...:
I did read the entire World Book 1980 encyclopedias multiple times growing up, however...
Ditto... and their huge dictionary taught me vocabulary and how to write letters and cursive writing before I hit kindergarten...
I still can't write
legible cursive.Can anyone?
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@anonymous234 said in In other news today...:
@kazitor said in In other news today...:
Suffice to say, modern fonts are so much more than glyph outlines. Of note here is the substitution table (GSUB), with as many subtables as you want for replacing sequences of one or more glyphs with one or more others, including by surrounding context.
Subtables which can be self-referencing. Recursion puts anything 80% of the way to Turing-completeness.I don't doubt fonts are their own whole wacky world of possibilities, the question is, is that stuff necessary to render text properly, or is it just nonsense that has accumulated over years that could just be replaced with simpler rules?
It depends on whose text you're rendering. It's not necessary at all for Latin script, but there are other scripts out there with more complicated rules about using various characters together. For some of those, substitution tables absolutely are necessary for correct rendering.
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@loopback0 said in In other news today...:
Unsurprisingly no-one learned anything from the LeftPad palaver.
Yes, we already know this, by the simple fact of NPM's continued existence. Actually learning the lesson from the LeftPad fiasco would have involved shutting the system down as fundamentally flawed on a conceptual level.
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@Zecc said in In other news today...:
Here's the code to the JavaScript version of is-promise:
module.exports = isPromise; module.exports.default = isPromise; function isPromise(obj) { return !!obj && (typeof obj === 'object' || typeof obj === 'function') && typeof obj.then === 'function'; }
And here's the TypeScript version:
declare function isPromise<T, S>(obj: Promise<T> | S): obj is Promise<T>; export default isPromise;
They really do have a separate package for every single one-liner over in JS land, do they?!
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@Mason_Wheeler said in In other news today...:
@loopback0 said in In other news today...:
Unsurprisingly no-one learned anything from the LeftPad palaver.
Yes, we already know this, by the simple fact of NPM's continued existence. Actually learning the lesson from the LeftPad fiasco would have involved shutting the system down as fundamentally flawed on a conceptual level.
...and it just happened again, for a similarly trivial "package" that should never have been a third-party component in the first place:
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@Mason_Wheeler said in In other news today...:
@Karla said in In other news today...:
@M_Adams said in In other news today...:
@Benjamin-Hall said in In other news today...:
I did read the entire World Book 1980 encyclopedias multiple times growing up, however...
Ditto... and their huge dictionary taught me vocabulary and how to write letters and cursive writing before I hit kindergarten...
I still can't write
legible cursive.Can anyone?
We have enough trouble typing legibly around here...
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@dcon lolwut? U can't read our 1337 w0rdz? N00b!
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@Mason_Wheeler OMG,
(imaging in case the sort order of comments changes)
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They found "small molecules" that can restore telomeres, which is kinda cool. (For those not familiar with the lingo, that means some relatively simple piece of chemistry you'd make into a pharmaceutical drug. Large molecules in this context are big, complex things like proteins and DNA.)
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@Mason_Wheeler said in In other news today...:
...and it just happened again, for a similarly trivial "package" that should never have been a third-party component in the first place:
It's the same one. It literally links to the same issue on GitHub.
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@Mason_Wheeler said in In other news today...:
They found "small molecules" that can restore telomeres, which is kinda cool. (For those not familiar with the lingo, that means some relatively simple piece of chemistry you'd make into a pharmaceutical drug. Large molecules in this context are big, complex things like proteins and DNA.)
The difference is mostly to do with whether you can slip it through a cell membrane. Large molecules are the ones that you have to do special magic (with tagging and so on) to use as drugs, and are why those natural large molecules that already have the trick (often kinds of poisons) are highly valued.
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@loopback0 said in In other news today...:
It's the same one.
One was
left-pad
and the other wasis-promise
.
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@dkf said in In other news today...:
@loopback0 said in In other news today...:
It's the same one.
One was
left-pad
and the other wasis-promise
.
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I never promised otherwise.
I thought you were talking about something else.
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@loopback0 Huh? This isn't left-pad; it's a different package this time.