I work at a consulting engineering firm and write a lot of reports that are read by the public. I have an opportunity to recommend a different font for all of our written documents and am looking for something more modern/fresh than Times New Roman. Also open to recommendations for purpose specific communities about...
Newer research actually says that it mostly doesn’t matter. Use a readable sans or serif, there’s no measurable difference.[1][2][3]
[1] Wery, J.J., Diliberto, J.A. The effect of a specialized dyslexia font, OpenDyslexic, on reading rate and accuracy. Ann. of Dyslexia 67, 114–127 (2017). doi.org/10.1007/s11881-016-0127-1
[2] Kuster, S.M., van Weerdenburg, M., Gompel, M. et al. Dyslexie font does not benefit reading in children with or without dyslexia. Ann. of Dyslexia 68, 25–42 (2018). doi.org/10.1007/s11881-017-0154-6
[3] Rello, L., Baeza-Yates, R. How to present more readable text for people with dyslexia. Univ Access Inf Soc 16, 29–49 (2017). doi.org/10.1007/s10209-015-0438-8
Does anyone else with ADHD have some days where your executive dysfunction is worse than normal, and you end up barely doing anything and feeling like crap? I’m having one of those days, and I’m hoping I’m not alone in experiencing this.
Baldur’s Gate 3 is looking to be one of the best games of 2023 in a year already full of some of the best games of the generation. And their stance on microtransactions is great.
Enougb with the clickbait lmao. Be sure to not fucking say what the stance is so we click your article.
“No, there are no in-game purchases in our game. We believe in providing a complete and immersive gaming experience without the need for additional purchases. Enjoy the game to its fullest without any additional costs or microtransactions.”
What rule says that every distro needs its own package and manager to install any package?
There isn’t, it just happens that usually when you have ideas for a new distro to the point where you don’t want to fork from an existing one, you’re also typically not happy with how the packages are handled/built/versioned or whatever, so you end up making your own packages. Maybe you have an idea to make it different, and before you know it, you end up with a brand new package manager as well. Sometimes you want it to be simpler, maybe you’re trying to avoid Debian’s dependency hell and you end up creating pacman. Maybe you’re targetting routers with 8MB of flash and you come up with opkg to keep it absolutely tiny.
Then there’s things like Nix/NixOS where they’re like, what if we do everything completely differently?
and maybe even a specific programming language
This one’s a bit weird. Historically, that was left to the distributions to provide you with libraries, but as things keep moving it becomes increasingly complicated. On Debian, you can install a whole bunch of Python/Ruby/NodeJS libraries with apt, but because they’re tied to the OS version, they can quickly become outdated. And really that only works on Debian, or Linux distributions. There’s no such things on Windows and macOS. Supporting so many potential versions of your dependencies can quickly become a nightmare for developers just trying to get an app out. So typically there’s always a way to bring your own dependencies as the official support environment. Distros can still decide to do otherwise if they wish, but at least there’s a known good environment.
So each programming language tend to also have its own package manager so that it’s uniform across the ecosystem, so that when you try to run a NodeJS app, on Windows, you do it about the same way as you would on Linux. These typically install the dependencies in the project’s folder, so they’re fully independent of the system ones which could be too old, too new, patched in incompatible ways. It’s a bit like a sandbox for your project.
Ultimately, it’s organic growth and people preferring some things over the others, or people experimenting with different things and it takes off. That’s the freedom of open-source, you can achieve things in many different ways based on whatever you prefer. If you want to avoid pip and just install python3-* packages for your personal scripts, power to you.
A lot of us are pretty new to the fediverse and we've arrived just in time to grapple with what is easily the biggest federation/defederation controversy ever to hit it. I've put this thread together to hopefully help communicate some of the more complex ideas that we're trying to get our heads around....
Recently I found this developer who has published dozens of small, useful extensions for firefox. Nothing groundbreaking that I know of but everything looks to have been made with care to efficiency and minimal permissions to do one thing well. Each has its own github repo where the developer responds to issues....
What are your favorite fonts for technical reports?
I work at a consulting engineering firm and write a lot of reports that are read by the public. I have an opportunity to recommend a different font for all of our written documents and am looking for something more modern/fresh than Times New Roman. Also open to recommendations for purpose specific communities about...
Are there any climatologists in the room? What is your job like? What do you do? How were your studies?
I’m thinking of going in to get my masters in climatology and I want to know everything from the mouths of those that do the work....
Executive Dysfunction Days
Does anyone else with ADHD have some days where your executive dysfunction is worse than normal, and you end up barely doing anything and feeling like crap? I’m having one of those days, and I’m hoping I’m not alone in experiencing this.
Baldur’s Gate 3’s Statement On Microtransactions Warms The Heart (www.forbes.com)
Baldur’s Gate 3 is looking to be one of the best games of 2023 in a year already full of some of the best games of the generation. And their stance on microtransactions is great.
What is the difference between Linux package managers?
I know every distro has its own package manager, some of them share the same package manager, you can even install other package managers....
Do neurotypicals really not have to do this? I'm seriously asking. (lemmy.world)
Thank you Nome @NomedaBarbarian...
Defederation, Threads and You
A lot of us are pretty new to the fediverse and we've arrived just in time to grapple with what is easily the biggest federation/defederation controversy ever to hit it. I've put this thread together to hopefully help communicate some of the more complex ideas that we're trying to get our heads around....
If you use firefox, check out these 55 single-function addons to improve life (all same dev; not me)
Recently I found this developer who has published dozens of small, useful extensions for firefox. Nothing groundbreaking that I know of but everything looks to have been made with care to efficiency and minimal permissions to do one thing well. Each has its own github repo where the developer responds to issues....
The Grug Brained Developer (grugbrain.dev)