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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 comes with some cute but barely readable lowercase versions of the letters)

1] https://radagast.ca/snellen/snellen.html 2] https://mk.bcgsc.ca/snellen-optotype-font/

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

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/comic-mono-font/

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 probably the first time in history that a graphic artist has painted a functionally workable computer program by accident.

[0]: https://www.dangermouse.net/esoteric/piet/samples.html [1]: https://gitlab.fabcity.hamburg/hofalab/piet-get-together

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

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

It's not Tetris but it's not Not Tetris¹

¹) https://stabyourself.net/nottetris2

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

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.

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!

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 me a weirdly positive feeling.

¹ https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/opportunity-rovers-final-w... ² https://xkcd.com/695/

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”.

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 nice. For other things such as studio layout and keybindings you can either try to make them as close to Adobe as possible, or invest some time adapting to the new situation.

1. https://affinity.serif.com/en-gb/learn/

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://affinity.serif.com/

1. https://twitter.com/affinitybyserif/status/15859336521015992...

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 appreciate the fact that there are full fledged, cross platform replacements for Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign. No subscription necessary, just a simple one time purchase per app. Even the iPadOS¹ apps (two of which are ready, the third is in the works) are not crippled, unlike many of their counterparts.

Unfortunately there are no plans of the apps coming to linux², but I have heard reports of people getting it to work using bottles³.

Oh, and re: another recent HN front-page post⁴, yes all apps have Pantone support⁵ ;-) (and from my experience importing AI and PS files works quite reliably)

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1. https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/affinity-designer/id1274090551...

2. https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/98932-faq-...

3. https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/166159-aff...

4. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33369951

5. https://twitter.com/affinitybyserif/status/15859336521015992...

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, which (correct me if I’m wrong) also require an account with showdead on to be viewed.

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 production value, you’re in luck!

Matt parker made a video on this topic, and it’s great: https://youtu.be/sseSi0k3Ecg

It will not give you not a lot more information than you can find in this blog post (though it relates it to a stock market crash triggered by high frequency trading bots doing basically the same thing), but it’s highly entertaining.

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edit: after re-checking the video, it states that is a video adaptation of the blog post, and the blog post is listed as primary source of the information :)

> I’ve never heard about them

They are designed to be stealthy, so the fact that they’re not on our radar means they are doing their job!

She was voted Naughty penguin of the month multiple times [0], so if there’s anything fishy going on I suspect her to be behind the scheme herself.

Definitely not as adorable as she looks!

[0] https://www.nationalaquarium.co.nz/visit/penguin-of-the-year...

This is an email you posted to your _public_ profile in a community of tens(?) of thousands, consisting mainly of engineers and businesses people marketing to engineers. What did you expect?

This is hilarious. I remember a similar collection of headlines and opinion pieces calling out ‘newspapers on trains causing people not to talk to each other’, where ‘newspapers’ could be easily substituted for ‘smartphones’ to bring the title in the current era.

I wonder which piece of technology is currently cautioned as the root of all evil, bringing a laugh to future historians. ‘Video Games’ (causing violence and obesity) come to mind, and ‘AI’ (taking our jobs).

Great, I amended my original comment.

Looking at their grants page¹ this organisation has committed only a single grant under $50k and various grants over $1m, where does 'tiny amounts of money' come from?

1. https://ftxfuturefund.org/our-grants/#grants

This used¹ content from logoipsum who explicitly state you cannot use their logos for this purpose:

"You can not:

Re-distribute/re-package as means of creating similar logo placeholder website to Logoipsum.com and/or similar to Logoipsum Figma Plugin."

see: https://logoipsum.com/license/

1. edit: This originally said 'uses' but the author changed it as soon as they were made aware.

I’m a decent snowboarder. Was going slowly (maybe 30kmh) on a easy wide downhill. Weather was perfect. Piste was not huge but broad and empty. Got hit from behind by a Ski instructor who was doing 60kmh+. He had a ‘weak moment’ and didn’t see me. I couldn’t catch myself and fell on the back of my head. Even though I was wearing a helmet, still had a mild concussion. Now is 5 weeks later and still dealing with the consequences. Glad a buddy who was skiing behind me caught it on his GoPro because it seemed so bizarre.

Wear a helmet. You’re protecting yourself from other things than just your own lack of skill. (not to mention it’s mandatory in many parts of the world now)

According to the source its azure. https://github.com/maxkrieger/voiceliner/blob/main/lib/repos...

Here is more rationale from telegrams ceo: https://t.me/s/durov

Never would have imagined I'd witness Big Parma sending cheese and desist letters.