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tripa··on Text Rendering Hates You (2019)
That was fascinating. Thank you.
tripa··on I would like a job writing Haskell
He's smart enough to get one.

He's also smart enough to know he'll get a better one by giving his quest visibility.

tripa··on ‘I felt powerless – so I started filming’: CyclingMikey vs. dangerous drivers
Thanks for the link! It's labelled «vidéosurveillance» though, it feels like it only applies to fixed permanent cameras, not smartphone or GoPro ad-hoc evidence.
tripa··on ‘I felt powerless – so I started filming’: CyclingMikey vs. dangerous drivers
Got a source for that?

My cursory reading of https://www.dalloz-actualite.fr/chronique/reflexions-sur-l-u... seems to only limit it for accusation by public authorities.

tripa··on High schoolers are training to drive 18-wheelers amid shortage of truck drivers
These people!
tripa··on The 'Great Resignation' is really the 'Great Discontent'
Indeed.

(actual employees in our case)

tripa··on The 'Great Resignation' is really the 'Great Discontent'
Full-Time Employee
tripa··on The 'Great Resignation' is really the 'Great Discontent'
I've said it before and I'd say it again with or without a throwaway: being certified “Great Place to Work” doesn't mean we're a good work environment, merely that we allocated >1 FTE to winning the contest.
tripa··on The Cursed Computer Iceberg Meme
That was my understanding as well, but the links don't corroborate.
tripa··on The Cursed Computer Iceberg Meme
"fonts can be malicious" (on iceberg) and "font hinting is Turing complete" (middle of iceberg) are the same.
tripa··on On the Decline of Perl – external factors
Or just the simple

    $array_ref->[2][2][1];
tripa··on I self-published a paperback and eBook using LaTeX and Pandoc
These are not known as widows and orphans. Widows and orphans are a single line split to a separate page than the rest of the paragraph. Parent is describing a single word split to be alone on its line.
tripa··on Why does an A note sound different across instruments?
Overly confrontational. You can and do get beats when combining nearby frequencies, and it's not at odds with sound superposition being linear.

The beats have a frequency and are audible, but their frequency is not a pitch.

tripa··on TV detector vans once prowled the streets of England
They do come for a surprise visit if you tick the box in France. Used to, at least, circa 2009.
tripa··on A new release for GNU Octave
I drop to octave any time I need to do some one-off matrix computation. Also as an interface to GLPK.
tripa··on Gimp 2.99.2 – GTK3 user interface toolkit
So I am the 2%. Glad anyway :)
tripa··on Gimp 2.99.2 – GTK3 user interface toolkit
I wasn't too happy when my distro upgraded from 2.8 to 2.10. The new icon set for the toolbox may be more trendy, but I have a much harder time recognizing/understanding which is which not they're all monochrome.

Glad to see HiDPI come up.

tripa··on Mathematicians discover a perfect way to multiply (2019)
Numbers that exceed the machine's word size have a common representation whose length is O(lg N). So a simplistic upper bound for computing N×M would be O(min(N,M) × lg(N×M))
tripa··on NetHack 3.6.6
People win it every day.

And publicly too: https://alt.org/nethack/top-3.6.php

tripa··on Covid-19 is now officially a pandemic, WHO says
Credibility is the quality one has when one's statements ought to be believed. OP claims the WHO lacks this quality. OP doesn't illustrate what specific statements the WHO could make that aren't trustworthy; but in the very same comment only quotes a single one from them: the fact that Covid-19 would be a pandemic.

So the only (provided) statement we should disbelieve is that Covid-19 is a pandemic. Which is precisely what OP wanted them to say. Hence the contradiction.

Obviously, this line of reasoning is tenuous, but the initial claim isn't much better, as nothing is said of what it really means for the WHO to have credibility.

I read that comment as an additional armchair semanticist making the strong claim that (exaggeration mine) the WHO should have declared the pandemic before the virus reached their own country.

tripa··on Covid-19 is now officially a pandemic, WHO says
Indeed.

So I read OP's comment as self-contradictory and am still not quite sure what to make of it.

tripa··on Covid-19 is now officially a pandemic, WHO says
My point being: some Internet rando making claims about WHO's credibility is only worth that much.
tripa··on Covid-19 is now officially a pandemic, WHO says
> To me, WHO lost all credibility.

Are you saying Covid-19 isn't a pandemic anymore?

tripa··on Twitter says an attacker used its API to match usernames to phone numbers
I knowingly am. :-(

Parent post insisted on the acronym, that triggered my consistency response reflex.

tripa··on Twitter says an attacker used its API to match usernames to phone numbers
Sorry for the slight pedantry, but PII is some American thing. GDPR deals with "personal data".

It's playing on words until you find out the PII definition isn't the one that's used to settle GDPR claims.

tripa··on Verlan: French slang that inverses words
I've only ever heard is as chèm, so that's how I'd write it.
tripa··on Verlan: French slang that inverses words
In older movies, you'll also hear it as "comme ak".

"Et la taulière... une blonde comme ac... comment qu'elle s'appelait?"

https://youtu.be/lGGI3ubLmaU?t=157

Wiktionary hints that variant is mostly southern, from occitan "coma aquò".

tripa··on Verlan: French slang that inverses words
I'll add the two I had to have explained to me:

chèm <- moche (ugly), not to be confused with chanmé <- méchant (bad) (think bad motherfucker), whose ending can't affort to drop.

reuch <- cher (expensive), not to be understood as an anglicism for "rush".

tripa··on Volkswagen exec admits full self-driving cars 'may never happen'
Not sure I get your point.

Having atom-resolution maps doesn't help a bit it you don't know where on it you are.

tripa··on Battle of Alesia
Good translators manage to bring in jokes of their own.
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