public notes, by enky
If you have read about the internet culture of 2005, you might know about the Million Dollar Homepage . Its Wikipedia article states that “by 2017, most links have suffered from link rot”. But 2017 was almost a decade ago, so I wanted to check whether how much worse it got in 2026. After running a Python script for scraping the Homepage’s HTML and filtering out some garbage data manually, I have…
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The programming ≈language Squeak nowadays (version ≥ 4) normally uses the Bitstream Vera fonts (although the old bitmap fonts are also installed), which are Unicode-aware and work as they should. However, before version 4, the default user interface fonts were bitmaps, specifically recreations of Apple’s legacy Mac OS fonts, a font called Atlanta of unknown to me origin, and Comic Sans MS , which…
say you have an existing font. for the font to be useful with mathematical notation, it must have: the opentype MATH table glyphs, specifically in these blocks: greek and coptic mathematical alphanumeric symbols mathematical operators combining diacritical marks (and its amendments) fortunately a lot of these can be synthesized. i am assuming you are using fontforge. 1. greek and coptic most…
можливо ви колись бачили чи чули такий факт, що «в українській найбільше слів починаються на букву “п”». але я завжди до цього ставився скептично — бо жодних доказів чи іншої статистики подано не було. тому я написав невеличку програму на пітоні, яка проходить через великий електронний словник української мови та перелічує, скільки лем починаються на якусь букву. отже, ось сам код: import re ,…