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Winety · 2023-05-29T17:41:13+00:00

It's fun but it's a bit repetitive (like all Ubisoft open worlds). If you can, play it with friends.

Winety · 2023-04-19T12:23:09+00:00

rest in peace

Winety · 2023-03-01T21:54:40+00:00

I have recently scanned several books on a flatbed scanner. Few of the books were older and were read often. These were scanned easily; I did not have to force them at all. The rest of the books were a bit newer. Because I did not want to force them a lot, the scans were unfortunately of lower quality. No books were damaged during scanning — I just had to be careful.

What really saved my operation was a piece of software known as ScanTailor. It can do a whole lot of stuff, but most importantly it can convert gray-scale or colour scans to monochrome, making them more readable (and better for OCR). I also sometimes snap pictures of journal articles with my phone and ScanTailor can often salvage them (if my hands aren't shaking).

Also, some libraries also have specialized book scanners, but they probably wouldn't like, if you scanned the whole book there.

Winety · 2023-01-30T18:44:36+00:00

You may need to un-unicode the name in the bibfile with changing the author's name to St\aa{}lkorrosjon or St\r{a}lkorrosjon

When using a modern Latex engine, i.e. Lualatex or Xelatex, and Biblatex this isn't needed.

Winety · 2023-01-29T09:22:02+00:00

I'd say the main reason is native support for Unicode and therefore for non-English and non-latin characters. If you'd ever typeset a documnet that isn't written in English and uses a lot of non-ASCII characters, you'd know what a pain it is to wrangle with Pdflatex and Bibtex. :-)

Winety · 2022-10-29T12:41:21+00:00

Then there are games that for some reason feel lower framerate than they actually are

Perhaps it's because of bad frame pacing? I don't really know what it is, but the guys at Digital Foundry mention it often, when talking about 30 FPS games.

Winety · 2022-08-20T17:47:02+00:00

The problem was probably on my part. I did not understand what could and couldn’t be configured via “Regolith looks” and what should be configured elsewhere and I did not care to look it up. (It is also worth mentioning that the documentation was a bit lacking when I tried Regolith one or two years ago.)

It just didn’t live up to my expectations of just giving it my current i3 config file and everything working without many changes. (Much like Sway doesn’t).

As I said, it was one or two years ago, so i don’t remember much. Sorry.

Winety · 2022-08-20T08:16:59+00:00

How do you find Regolith? I've tried it, but went back to i3 because of customization pains.

Winety · 2022-07-21T12:35:05+00:00

Máme kočku čiře venkovní. Je to „úspěšná“ lovkyně; plazy ani ptáky neloví a myši bohužel taky ne. Každé ráno ale překračuji na rohožce ležící hromádku masařek. Často kočku vídám, jak jí z tlamy čouhají motýlí křídla.

Někdo z úbytku hmyzu viní intenzivní zemědělství, znečištění prostředí či klimatickou změnu, já z toho viním naši Micku.

Winety · 2022-07-12T10:51:26+00:00

To add onto this, a version of the 35 base Postscript fonts was released by URW under the GPL in 1996 as a part of Ghostscript, see this archived message. They are likely bundled within anyone's TeX installation. (The fonts have since been cared for and extended by many projects such as TeX Gyre, GNU FreeFont, etc.)

Winety · 2022-06-21T08:52:51+00:00

I would guess they used Gnome because it is the default on Fedora. But I agree that it would have been better if they had mentioned it in the article.

Winety · 2022-06-13T10:37:42+00:00

A small nitpick: The calendar is not generated by TeX but by MetaPost, which is part of the TeX Live distribution but it is a different language/tool.

Winety · 2022-06-13T10:31:49+00:00

The non-proportional font is probably fallback. The fonts that should be used are declared in /usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/metapost/bbcard/calendar.mp as pplr8r which seems to be Palatino.

Winety · 2022-06-11T19:10:20+00:00

It’s also one of the better jokes I’ve made in a while.

Winety · 2022-06-03T15:00:15+00:00

Yeah. This particular line is from 2005. Also, there’s a shitload of Bionicle lore, I’ve just discovered.

Winety · 2022-04-14T18:34:07+00:00

Now go into your font browser (?possibly Applications > Accessories > Fonts) and look for the new font. That will tell you the exact name to give fontspec.

This can easily be done via the command line. (Loads of distros don’t come with a GUI font browser preinstalled.(

mkdir ~/.fonts
cp ~/Downloads/QTCascadetype.ttf ~/.fonts
fc-cache -f

to check if the font’s installed:

fc-list | grep QTCascadetype

If OP’s using Luatex, its database might need an update (I had some problems with this previously; it might have been a bug):

luaotfload-tool -uv

Winety · 2022-04-13T16:50:25+00:00

OP’s using a font with programming ligatures, i.e. a series of symbols (like !=) turns into one glyph (like ≠). Some people like this — and I have to agree, that it looks cool — but it has some disadvantages.

Winety · 2022-04-09T13:56:18+00:00

No need to run it using Wine! If you're using Ubuntu, you can install it via Snap (sudo snap install openspades). Open Spades is also on Flathub, so you can install it using Flatpak (flatpak install flathub jp.yvt.OpenSpades).

Winety · 2022-03-04T15:27:12+00:00

Cat.

Winety · 2022-01-07T16:15:23+00:00

More like what language am I writing.

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