A technical note: OpenType Layout does have a way of representing the appropriate _cursor positions_ to use for components of a ligature[1], which is a good proxy for where the individual glyph boundaries are in the trivial case (fi and fl, say) but these tables are not reliably included in all fonts, and they are not actually used by much client software (last I checked they were used by CoreText but not by HarfBuzz or DirectWrite.)
This is definitely true, but there is a useful distinction between the usual evolutionary competition between species in an ecosystem and the very sharp situation of an ecologically novel species being introduced into that ecosystem and out-competing the incumbents, and 'invasive species' is the best term we currently have for this second case.
It is significantly more than that. One major example: quebec has a separate legal system for civil matters, based on french civil law. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quebec_law)
If you're going to post quite sensationalist speculation please at least provide some attempt at a source or rationale. It doesn't really pass the sniff test that any goverment would bother with this banal subterfuge when they are more than capable of putting secret payloads into orbit, and have done so many times[1].
I don't think there's some huge point beyond exploring an interesting question, and raising it in a forum where it's possible some people with more specific domain knowledge might offer some insight.
I remember reading in one of John McPhee's geology books (collected as [1], and one of the best things I've ever read) about a particular way that diamonds can form; it had a name (like a diamond jet or a diamond burst or something) but the basic idea is mesmerizing: super-heated water containing dissolved carbon would find some fissure in the surrounding rock and explosively expand into it, and in the process it would cool rapidly and diamonds would crystallize out of the solution. I'm stuck with the visual of a seam of diamonds popping into existence in an instant, which is not what we normally think of as a geological timescale.
In reality, how many people are regularly using github search without having a github account? Can this change really be expected to bring in a meaningful number of users?
Trying to think this through, my own best guess for what is going on is that there is some amount of traffic coming from bots/scripts and github would like to have all queries associated with an account so that they can block accounts? I'm not sure if this makes sense, but I think it's a reasonable possibility.
I’ve smoked weed before bed most nights for at least a decade, and if I happen to skip a night I… still sleep fine, unless I’ve had no exercise that day.
Hinting might be a red herring here: these font formats are unsafe almost by design, since they consistently rely on a pattern of reading a value out of a chunk of memory and then treating that value as a pointer offset where additional values are read.
The proposed WASM shaping implementation would be a replacement for traditional OpenType layout[1] which is already turing complete[2]), and in this sense using WASM is significantly safer than the alternative. Your comment suggests that "execution of arbitrary WASM code" is something that we should be scared of, but the entire point of WASM is that it allows for safe/isolated compilation of arbitrary code.
I… don’t really follow this take? I agree that Lee Valley occupies a position at the top of the market, but I don’t think it’s about luxury, at all. My father was a cabinet maker, my mother a school teacher. They built their own home in the countryside, grew much of their own food, and could not have been less interested in “luxury” in any familiar sense of the word; but the shop and house is full of stuff from Lee Valley, because it is consistently high quality, and they don’t like buying stuff that gets thrown away.
I think your comment maybe conflates quality with luxury?
'insidious authoritarianism' is a curious way of describing two not-unreasonable proposals that are presumably aimed at making american democracy more representative and accessible...
anecdata: I'm in canada, which has legalized marijuana recently. The black market is cheaper, but all but the most die-hard stoners I know like to buy government weed, because the product is consistent and you know what you're getting.
> - Even in a legal market how many people are always buying their own?
Maybe I'm misunderstanding, but in a legal market even if I don't buy something directly at least I have vastly increased faith that i know what something is.
> - If everything is legal then it's even easier for people to spike drinks and the like.
Who knows, but I strongly doubt that there is a large pool of potential rapists at large who are currently stymied primarily due to the difficulty in acquiring GHB.
> - Purdue Pharma marketing issue writ large.
> - Patients pressuring their doctors to prescribe, or alternatively feeling pressured by their doctors to use a particular drug.
There are definitely a bunch of social and policy questions that would need to be addressed when considering legalization, sure.
> - If it's legal it's easier to purposefully or accidentally overdose (e.g. alcohol today). Especially if it's also cheaper.
Almost certainly not, as the majority of overdoses are the consequence of people not knowing what they're taking, or not knowing how to take it.
'illegal drugs' is a pretty broad brush, and treating opiods and psychedelics equivalently is silly. Surely treatment, education and research would all be far easier alongside decriminalization?
This post refers to full-time employees. You don't really need to fire TVCs; they're generally on shorter term contracts, which you can choose not to renew.
I mean, it is expressed pretty clearly in the article; it uses Nix to manage external dependencies, and manages setting link paths and other build bookkeeping.
[1]: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/typography/opentype/spec/g...