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New comment by mgdlbp in "Text rendering hates you (2019)"

mgdlbp — Sun, 28 Dec 2025 03:51:52 +0000

https://int10h.org/blog/2016/01/windows-cleartype-truetype-f...

http://www.electronicdissonance.com/2010/01/raster-fonts-in-...

New comment by mgdlbp in "Apple apologizes for iPad 'Crush' ad that 'missed the mark'"

mgdlbp — Fri, 10 May 2024 04:39:13 +0000

Brings to mind the OK GO music video with all the exploded guitars that they stated were already junk. Spilled paint is reminiscent of their videos too.

They also smashed pianos in the Rube Goldberg video, and a TV with a sledge. Now I wonder if that was a 1984 reference.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0BTnGgzO-tU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qybUFnY7Y8w

New comment by mgdlbp in "Road resurfacing during the daytime without stopping traffic [video]"

mgdlbp — Tue, 07 May 2024 19:40:25 +0000

For the bridge only, Marti also made a more sufferable cut in German, that is on the OP channel (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJLX3C0eg3g)

The segue from CG is much more sensible

Georgia and Verdana – typefaces designed for the screen (finally) (1997)

mgdlbp — Wed, 01 May 2024 17:24:53 +0000

Article URL: https://web.archive.org/web/19980207034327/http://www.will-harris.com/verdana-georgia.htm

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40226365

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by mgdlbp in "My favourite Git commit (2019)"

mgdlbp — Thu, 01 Feb 2024 18:42:53 +0000

"quote unification'':

  most typefaces: “Hello” „Hallo“

Verdana: “Hello” „Hallo“

New comment by mgdlbp in "NASA unlocks $1B canister of asteroid dust"

mgdlbp — Mon, 22 Jan 2024 08:54:17 +0000

That's a lot of hot pixels for base ISO! Could be the focus stacking intensified them.

That camera can actually get a bit more resolution out of sensor movements, though the lens might be at its limit already, or focus was still a little off. edit: it's probably the glovebox glass.

New comment by mgdlbp in "Keeping a long shell history"

mgdlbp — Sun, 21 Jan 2024 12:45:26 +0000

a weaker method is to set a non-default HISTFILE after HISTSIZE etc

New comment by mgdlbp in "How does one patch KDE2 under FreeBSD? (2012)"

mgdlbp — Sun, 21 Jan 2024 00:55:20 +0000

Deletionists got to the English Wikipedia page

https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3271851

https://web.archive.org/web/20201214110440/https://en.wikipe...

New comment by mgdlbp in "Hans Reiser on ReiserFS deprecation in the Linux kernel"

mgdlbp — Sat, 20 Jan 2024 11:09:52 +0000

(re: dead comment 39066268) I'm now very interested in what Reiser would think of the present state of the (semantic) web. (edit: i.e, the thought experiment, realized: transplant someone just a few years in time --- what gradual changes would they uniquely observe?)

New comment by mgdlbp in "Vision isn't what you think it is – see for yourself [video]"

mgdlbp — Mon, 15 Jan 2024 20:27:59 +0000

‹‹‹ "What a camera actually shows is its processor's reconstruction of objects based on input provided by the sensor — not the actual light received by its sensor."

New comment by mgdlbp in "Elisp in Replacement String"

mgdlbp — Fri, 12 Jan 2024 21:12:53 +0000

  :%s/\([0-9]\+\))/\=submatch(1)-1.')'    " vim

  perl -pe 's/([0-9]+)\)/$1-1 .")"/e'

  ruby -pe 'sub(/([0-9]+)\)/){"#{$1.to_i-1})"}'

New comment by mgdlbp in "CLI user experience case study"

mgdlbp — Fri, 12 Jan 2024 15:12:32 +0000

btw xterm has a hack for editors without mouse support – turn clicks into the right number of movement key presses,

  uxterm -xrm '*VT100.translations: #override !: vi-button() readline-button()'

New comment by mgdlbp in "Tell HN: Bash.org is no more"

mgdlbp — Thu, 11 Jan 2024 20:34:50 +0000

https://web.archive.org/web/20040212/http://bash.fi

https://web.archive.org/web/20070227/http://qdb.gr

https://web.archive.org/web/20060402/http://qdb.hu

https://web.archive.org/web/20040420/http://qdb.us

New comment by mgdlbp in "Tell HN: Bash.org is no more"

mgdlbp — Thu, 11 Jan 2024 17:23:11 +0000

ccTLDs, inexhaustive

https://web.archive.org/web/20100222/http://bash.org.az

https://web.archive.org/web/20070217/http://bash.org.by

https://web.archive.org/web/20060424/http://bash.org.il

https://web.archive.org/web/20071022/http://bash.org.kg

https://web.archive.org/web/20061203/http://bash.org.lv

https://web.archive.org/web/20090830/http://bash.org.md

https://web.archive.org/web/20060101/http://bash.org.pl

https://web.archive.org/web/20090421/http://bash.org.ro

https://web.archive.org/web/20040611/http://bash.org.ru

https://web.archive.org/web/20110523/http://bash.org.tj

https://web.archive.org/web/20080105/http://bash.org.ua

https://web.archive.org/web/20101117/http://ibash.org.pl

https://web.archive.org/web/20070609/http://ibash.org.ru

https://web.archive.org/web/20091004/http://bash.cc

https://web.archive.org/web/20030805/http://bash.cx

https://web.archive.org/web/20080315/http://bash.ee

https://web.archive.org/web/20040608/http://bash.hu

https://web.archive.org/web/20090322/http://bash.im

https://web.archive.org/web/20060205/http://bash.lv

https://web.archive.org/web/20180314/http://bash.no

https://web.archive.org/web/20060112/http://bash.ro

https://web.archive.org/web/20080219/http://bash.tj

https://web.archive.org/web/20120114/http://bash.tk

https://web.archive.org/web/20061115/http://ibash.de

https://web.archive.org/web/20160109/http://ibash.im

New comment by mgdlbp in "JAL A359 at Tokyo collided with Coast Guard DH8C on runway and burst into flames"

mgdlbp — Tue, 02 Jan 2024 15:05:22 +0000

(I don't think that's what most mean when they say 'chance', but I get what you mean ;) It's similar to realizing how seating choice radically alters your (very small) chance of death by train crash.

I was going to say 'chance of death on that day' but apparently rail transport is remarkably safe and in micromorts, you're as likely to die in one day at 20 years of age as in 10000 km by rail, or (only!) 1600 km by air.

Now, it appears that 1600 km is also nearly the distance of the average passenger flight (a disappointly difficult datum to discover on the internet in 2024). Is this a counterpart to the reassuring quips comparing the chances of death by lightning: that boarding a plane doubles your chances of dying that day?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micromort#Travel

New comment by mgdlbp in "There is an OOM kill count in Linux"

mgdlbp — Sun, 31 Dec 2023 17:33:26 +0000

Tangentially, an issue with the desktop use case is that the main process of a long-running browser is often the first to be killed, instead of one of its content processes, which it can survive losing. This is the case since 2019 as the kernel no longer prefers killing children.[0]

As far as I know, unless a browser manages its oom_score_adj, which none do, a wrapper is insufficient as a workaround and a daemon would have to do so on its behalf, because the value is inherited when forking.

[0] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/lin...

New comment by mgdlbp in "Compare Google, Bing, Marginalia, Kagi, Mwmbl, and ChatGPT"

mgdlbp — Sun, 31 Dec 2023 14:56:58 +0000

Internet Archive remembers. https://web.archive.org/web/*/google.com/search/%2A

Find a query of interest, see for yourself (and take a snapshot of the present state for posterity).

The api enables more powerful queries, https://web.archive.org/cdx/search/cdx?url=google.co.jp*&pag...

Also try other search engines and languages.

New comment by mgdlbp in "There is an OOM kill count in Linux"

mgdlbp — Sun, 31 Dec 2023 14:19:07 +0000

Enable Alt+SysRq+F and do it manually. Works in seconds every time; the kernel can take days because it's not eager enough when thrashing.

Can have security implications, but the target is chosen in the typical way and screen locks should be setting a score_adj to avoid being picked.

New comment by mgdlbp in "Gentoo goes Binary"

mgdlbp — Fri, 29 Dec 2023 17:34:04 +0000

a garden path sentence, but it parses.

[only on HN] could [any state [that Gentoo was ever in]] be [reflected upon [as "just worked like a breeze"] unironically]_,_ and [I] mean [that] [in a fond, loving way]

New comment by mgdlbp in "Par: Paragraph reformatter, vaguely similar to fmt, but better"

mgdlbp — Sun, 24 Dec 2023 13:37:08 +0000

M-x eshell

  Welcome to the Emacs shell
  
  /tmp $ set-variable `x 6; echo $x
  6
  /tmp $

M-: (term "pwsh")

  PowerShell 7.4.0
  PS /tmp> set-variable `x 6; echo $x
  6
  PS /tmp>

Disturbing.