nilloc

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[–] nilloc@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The ones who last do, yeah. All the good ones I’ve met are ex-police.

[–] nilloc@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 2 years ago (3 children)

The StemmaQt or Qwiic boards from Adafruit and Sparkfun, respectively, are more accessible ways to make physical computing projects with sensors and screens.

I’m working on some simpler discrete circuits with my son, like 555 and shift registers, since he’s really good with his fingers, but only just starting to read. We get to build and test them with Tinkercad or Fritzing and then make them in real life. It’s been awesome learning for both of us.

[–] nilloc@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 2 years ago

…and just like that, another dickhead cop is created.

[–] nilloc@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yeah me too, but brains are weird. There’s no reason not to think something that happens to some of us, but is clearly not common, can be “unlocked” or “stimulated” by taking a drug like psilocybin.

[–] nilloc@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 2 years ago

Those just mean guns and drugs right?

They never figure out how roads or waste management happens after that though.

[–] nilloc@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Stating a fact and making up a fact are 2 very different things.

[–] nilloc@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Dat guy has sure got da way wit werds right? Who’d da thought Chicago accents could be so goddamn soothing.

[–] nilloc@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

I agree that texture healing is a bit too vague about that they’re really using it for. Its really for kerning pair without disrupting the monospaced grid. Maybe, since the audience for these fonts aren’t usually typographers, they should have called it Monospaced Kerning Pairs?

Texture is a term and feature of typefaces in design however. Usually described for fonts used in body text, or larger blocks of text.

While it probably doesn’t affect shorter lines of text used in most coding languages, it can be harder to read when smaller sizes are used. Monospaced MmWw are the worst culprits.

One memorable observation on typographic texture was made by Heinz Peyer, a Swiss poet, who said that reading a text composed in Helvetica was like walking through a field of stones, whereas reading a text in Syntax was like walking through a field of flowers. (23)

Form is often susceptible to logical analysis, and pattern somewhat so, but texture evades precise description because its repetitions are so numerous, its features so small, and its interactions so refined, that the multifarious complexity of the emergent image resists orderly analysis. Texture requires a holistic more than an analytic under­ standing.

Source

Ironically the second paragraph is turning out to be largely incorrect with smarter ways to analyze blocks of typeface texture. Also this second paragraph nicely illustrates the utter wankery present in a lot of typography circles and analysis.

Gotta justify that grad school bill somehow (pun intended).

Edited for spelling

[–] nilloc@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 2 years ago

Like kerning pairs, but with character swapping instead of kerning adjustments. It’s a really clever use of the language features available in Unicode.

[–] nilloc@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 2 years ago

Except I like reading the comments…

[–] nilloc@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Ah I guess they fixed it.

Also the additions are pretty great too. I always wanted to know how they were so sure the Lascaux paintings weren’t done by bored teens.

[–] nilloc@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

OSX had stacks, and has quick view that does all that piles stuff. I tried them out for about a week when they were first introduced. Grids are better for a reason.

And the print dialogs all have save PDF instead, but automating an eReader upload is a neat idea.

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