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You don't have to use them if you want, and I would never bother in some throwaway internet comment where context clues work well enough, but they serve an important purpose in typography that date back to the invention of the printing press or before. Each of these typographic marks signals uses that greatly differ syntactically and linguistically. In another sense, these are building blocks of design, which revolves around subtle yet explicit visual cues. Giving the reader those cues eliminates ambiguity by unambiguously establishing the writer's intent. That in turn promotes visual flow, which is essential when typesetting something hundreds of pages long. If you ever find yourself in this situation, you'll be happy they exist!

That's what I am doing right now. The issue seems to be when I am sloppy with the spacebar and some unknown input processing. When this is input:

  - keydown space
  - keydown a
  - keyup a
  - keyup space

I normally get the output <space><a>, interpreted in order of keydown, but kanata outputs in order of keyup, so I get <a><space>.

What function and timings do you use to make the space bar a modifier, but still work normally when typing? I tried a few things but couldn't figure out what to use.

After trying out a few Nerd Font variants I found this one. V1 looks correct, the second version supposedly fixes some bugs but looks worse. https://github.com/xtevenx/ComicMonoNF

After a ride in foul weather I pour a kettle of boiling water on the drivetrain, brakes, and rims, let it dry off inside, then re-lubricate. Always works like a charm.

This happens every time with google docs, my nicely formatted tables always get messed up and border thicknesses end up wrong.

This reads like rage bait. I don't think I've heard anyone use the "title" command as a reason for writing latex ever. What people mention is always the same four things: cross references, citations, figures, and equations; the author is totally dismissive of them in the comments. Everyone knows there is no strong competitor for any of these. Trying to get them to work smoothly in other programs has taken up the same amount of time as writing an entire paper before.

The "before:" operator trick is very useful but it won't last. They have quietly phased out some of these operators and they are not supported on many google properties. The before operator is also buggy, I regularly get searches where they fuzz the date by years.

In the post-production world blackmagic sets the price floor. None of their hardware is priced for consumer use.

I remember around the time of the 2020 Democratic primaries it was really commonly used by no-hopers for Kamala Harris. Their whole toolkit was basically condescending put-downs so they latched on to it hard. Didn't matter how obviously real the account was, and I got the impression that they really believed what they were saying.

100% legal if you delete within 24 hours.

I'll miss it, that feature was always kind of a copy-paste canary.

Good thing this shit isn't street legal in the EU. They at least have some amount of will to enforce basic car design safety.

/life/money/taxes/tax17/receipts/

My Zotero database, thesis, and classes split up by semester with short names.

Having come up with a light structure and kept it for 7 years now, mine is: media, life, edu, data, dev, pix

The most heavily structured is /edu, everything else is a shitshow but I generally know where to find stuff. There are a few others that are dead. I don't bother putting dotfiles into this, but I probably should. I try to minimize directories with the same first letter for faster tab completion.

At the risk of getting us all put on a list, could you say some more about what machining the stuff safely involves?

The last line resonates with me as the discord I hang out in is my only source of good recommendations anymore. Almost all of the good stuff I've seen in the past years comes from there. My algorithmic feeds by comparison are all high-viewcount trash for idiots. That onion article from years ago about the lowest common denominator dropping at an alarming rate has only gotten more true over time.

Ublock origin's filter syntax is very good but has limitations that make it borderline impossible to filter out some elements and also very brittle. For example, this one is one of 20 lines of filters to get rid of Shorts: `www.youtube.com##ytd-mini-guide-renderer a.yt-simple-endpoint path[d^="M10 14.65v-5.3L15 12l-5 2.65zm7.77-4.33"]:upward(ytd-mini-guide-entry-renderer)`

The frontend code is so abstracted that as soon as it is updated it is probably going to break. With userscripts you can filter these things with more sophisticated functions, but it slows down the interface more than UBO. In google's case that type of frontend abstraction (imo) is not intentionally designed to break interface filtering but it has that effect. For other companies like facebook and amazon they actively make filtering elements harder, because of their anti-adblock strategies, but they are all casting a wide enough net that element filtering is affected too. It's a long game of cat and mouse.

It was a great project but it's kind of pissing in the wind. These things break constantly as new awful features get added. And there's not much you can do with ublock about high-level frontend changes that are the real problem, like google switching to infinite scroll or removing the plus operator. I can understand getting worn down.

Hang on - preparing a great post where I explain the totality of the economy, society, and ecology to you. watch this space.

Applying any level of systems thinking or lifecycle analysis to the problem will reveal that nearly none of the costs to the environment or society are paid by whatever cursory fee you pay at the pump. Most of those taxes are paid by everyone regardless of car ownership anyway.

Some development boards and city councils definitely have a talent for shooting themselves in the foot, but the man is outright antagonistic to them and has been for years. Before you can build you have to do some legwork in advance and show the development board that your plans are going to be compliant. The board wants to be assured that the plan won't have safety or nuisance issues for the town. In some cases they want to have a guarantee that development will actually happen. In each case, Pine Bluff presents very low bars to development that this guy repeatedly fails to meet.

IMO this is not a case of a nimby board standing in the way of an eccentric trying to innovate. The problem is that he has made himself known to this board as an unserious crank who does not show the board respect for their processes. He has been approved for several different uses at the site and failed to follow through on any of them. He demands special permissions while actively campaigning against their plans. If he could show a good faith effort to help the town build upon what the electeds are doing he might have a fighting chance, but he instead goes around talking shit about them anywhere he can.

Go back to a simpler time... `before:2015 inurl:blogspot.com`

15 words is not a paragraph! Why are so many people writing this way? Is it leakage from Twitter?

I still refer to the R notebooks I created in doing the question sets for RaOS. A very high quality book.

This plugin does a decent job of creating margins, but can only display one text buffer at a time. https://github.com/folke/zen-mode.nvim

100 years ago is when western powers became involved and created the conditions for the current situation. So any comparison between the pre-british and period and everything that has happened since is quite harebrained.

In art school I owned an industrial sewing machine. It could sew through virtually anything and was great for repairs and modifications of heavy garments and bags. It had a "walking foot" that moved the needle in sync with the feed mechanism on the bottom which let it pull through almost endless layers without issue. I think the most it took before choking was about 15 layers of denim. You could lift the foot with a knee-operated lever too which made moving the material while you worked effortless. Of all the crap I've sold over the years to buy other stuff it's the only one I really regret letting go of.

The most interesting one to me is the black and white photograph of the woman giving her teeth diamond grills.