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skinpop··on Text Rendering Hates You (2019)
Have you looked into harfbuzz? afaik it's designed to solve that problem, for all languages.

https://harfbuzz.github.io/

skinpop··on Yamaha DX7 chip reverse-engineering, part 6: the control registers
The Buchla 258 oscillator has amazing fm that sounds alive.
skinpop··on Facebook loses users for the first time
I had a similar experience. I quit in 2009 when I was 24 and let's just say that was a great way of finding out who my real friends were.
skinpop··on Red Light Green Light
Isn't this just another example illustrating her point?
skinpop··on Spotify is removing Neil Young’s music after falling out over Joe Rogan
ever tried reading a major newspaper? they print corrections and apologize for errors in their reporting every single day.

how often do "independent" media figures apologize or admit to making mistakes?

corporate media sucks, but their lies tend to be more about what they choose to present and what they choose to omit rather than made up facts.

skinpop··on Tadayuki Watanabe disproved a major conjecture about spheres
What is it that makes 4d the hardest dimension in topology?
skinpop··on Japan's government plans to encourage 4-day workweek, but experts split
here in japan where I live 5 day work weeks are unheard of. everyone is working monday to saturday.
skinpop··on OpenGL Superbible
DSA made OpenGL an actually enjoyable interface to work with. Many of my favorite changes(like the 4.5 gl_DrawID) are from later releases.

Maybe 3.3 and 4.5 aren't actually that different, but they certainly feel very different to program.

skinpop··on Robinhood is limiting purchases of stocks: AMC, Blackberry, Nokia, and GameStop
so much for the free market
skinpop··on Zuckerberg is creating a new criminal justice reform group backed with $350M
Because they will never do the kind of good that threatens their power and influence.
skinpop··on Butterfly wing clap explains mystery of flight
also this second one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XmjleqxRTV8
skinpop··on Learn 3D Computer Graphics Programming from Scratch
The videos are free. $15 gives you access to the source code and some extras like the art files. You can easily produce the exact same source code by following along.
skinpop··on Learn 3D Computer Graphics Programming from Scratch
The 3D stuff in Handmade Hero is mostly platform agnostic. Casey explains 3d graphics from fundamentals and even implements a software renderer before the OpenGL backend is added. There's actually quite a bit of CPU rasterizing in HH.
skinpop··on David Fincher’s Impossible Eye
not having the movie explain itself in the end was the real reward.
skinpop··on Autodesk criticised by architects
I switched after 20 years of 3DSMax. Blender is definitely becoming more acceptable in professional settings.
skinpop··on Principles of Icon Design
I've used 3DSMax for two decades and I wish they would replace all the buttons with text. How do you design a button that describes the idea of a "bias"? Well they tried and I still don't get it after all these years.
skinpop··on Russian whistleblower was assassinated after uncovering $200B scandal (2018)
I like paying taxes. I get "free" healthcare and education and so many other things here in Sweden that wouldn't be possible without taxes. Simply not having to ever think about the financials of those things is worth a good 5% taxes if you ask me.

I wouldn't want to pay any less in taxes if it meant taking any of that away, but I would happily pitch in more if each additional krona would do as much or more than the one before it.

skinpop··on Protecting sites from Cryptojacking with CSP and SRI
maybe we should throw out ads and instead let creators borrow our computers to mine for a few minutes while we interact with their content.
skinpop··on Programming Fonts
I like m+ https://mplus-fonts.osdn.jp/about-en.html
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