asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: 'appledom' , though some folx seem to forget, in the words of jobs himself even, 'we shall take unfair advantage of the fact that we make the software AND THE HARDWARE'
asciilifeform: it does not bother gabriel_laddel to be a ghost ? with no flesh ?
asciilifeform: trinque: all else aside, i want to know where the d00d's PUBKEY is, and wtf he thinks he is doing without one.
asciilifeform: the nazi subs are closer to working subs than clim+x11 is to lispm.
asciilifeform: before you disagree, consider, it is easier than fixing clim.
asciilifeform: it is why gold rushes are destructive, they turn supposedly smart folk into drooling imbeciles
asciilifeform: but never applies the memory to himself when thinking 'i will make 10 mil selling proggy'
asciilifeform: i find it interesting that nearly every d00d knows, or has met, or heard of, some naive sov emigre who was CERTAIN that he could make ZILLIONS!!! selling... poetry. or balloons. or, or.
asciilifeform: to the point that i got my hands on a rom and pulled that font, and still have it somewhere. unfortunately unusable on any display that i have...
asciilifeform: and when i first saw screenshits of lispm, i was astonished at how readable the text was, on a box with ONE font in ONE size
asciilifeform: and each time it was an unpleasant and quite pointless ritual.
asciilifeform: not a single time that i bought a new panel with 2-3x the density of the old one, did i NOT have to change my emacs font
asciilifeform: incidentally 'scalable font' technology was imho a failure:☟︎
asciilifeform: i always assumed that it is a thing folks do when they come of age and build 'the' machine they will work their working years on, to sit down and burn away the shitfonts, among other
asciilifeform: of all the plagues discussed in this thread, i'd say fonts are the mildest, it is at this very minute quite trivial to operate a machine with 2-3 fonts installed , with ~0 surgery☟︎
asciilifeform: 'As more people with less commitment to quality and much less attention to detail got involved in writing it, its educational value diminished, too. It is like going to a library full of books that took 50 man-years to produce each, inventing a way to cut down the costs to a few man-months per book by copying and randomly improving on other books, and then wondering why nobody thinks your library full of these cheaper books is an in☟︎☟︎☟︎
asciilifeform has 2 buttons on his keyboard, 1 opens term with 'small' fixed font, other with 'big'
asciilifeform: the sane answer is that machine needs at most 2, fixed and variadic width, and with such a renderer that each can display at any scale without pixillation.
asciilifeform: (postscript is, approximately, a hypertrophied forth)☟︎
asciilifeform: iirc truetype is a much heavier and more malodorous latrine than postscript
asciilifeform: having once attempted a font render engine, asciilifeform knows a bit also.
asciilifeform: and i did think that these niblets had already gone through many an arse and had 0 way to do
