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Comment on What's your go-to mono font? in ~tech
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Comment on What’s the strangest thing you ever found in a book? in ~books
bkhl LinkChristopher Priest was clearing his garage and offered copies of his own books for sale on his blog. Among other things I got an author's copy of A Dream of Wessex, which turned out to have his...Christopher Priest was clearing his garage and offered copies of his own books for sale on his blog.
Among other things I got an author's copy of A Dream of Wessex, which turned out to have his own pencilled notes on some things he wanted to have changed slightly.
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Comment on What are you reading these days? in ~books
bkhl Link ParentThere are many things wrong in the writing, simply introducing plot holes. However, when I say it felt violating, is where they have changed hero characters making them stupid and impulsive...There are many things wrong in the writing, simply introducing plot holes.
However, when I say it felt violating, is where they have changed hero characters making them stupid and impulsive (Galadriel), or actually antagonistic (Gil-galad).
Also, with that budget i wonder what they are doing putting stretch shirts with scale armor print on main characters in the foreground, but that's the kind of thing that could have been forgiven if the writing was good.
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Comment on What are you reading these days? in ~books
bkhl LinkI felt so violated after trying to watch Rings of Power, than I decided to clean my brain by re-reading The Hobbit.I felt so violated after trying to watch Rings of Power, than I decided to clean my brain by re-reading The Hobbit.
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Comment on <deleted topic> in ~books
bkhl LinkI nominate "Monsters of the Gévaudan: The Making of a Beast" by Jay Smith. It's about the supposed plague of wolf/werewolf attacks in a province of France in the 18th century. (The same events...I nominate "Monsters of the Gévaudan: The Making of a Beast" by Jay Smith. It's about the supposed plague of wolf/werewolf attacks in a province of France in the 18th century. (The same events that is the inspiration for the movie "The Brotherhood of the Wolf".)
I also use Iosevka and no ligatures. Instead I use the variant where some characters like arrows have double width, and Emacs' prettify-mode to rewrite things like
:-and->to left and right arrows, depending on the mode.I find this a lot nicer than being limited to only being able to enable or disable the ligature mappings built into the font.
Even ligatures for actual ligatures (like fi and so on) I think probably should be avoided these days in favour of the Unicode characters, for similar reasons.
PS. I'll also give a shout-out to Charis SIL as a proportional font to match with Iosevka. It looks nice together with Iosevka, has similarly good Unicode support, and also happens to have a matching height, so can be mixed in the same document without scaling either.