Notices by rixx (rixx@chaos.social), page 9

It's very weird to figure out what to read after Dhalgren. Even though I didn't particularly like it, it will be a hard act to follow. I thought I'd just read some Mistborn or something, but everything feels either too trivial or too pretentious.

It's this post-kafkaesque feeling, which is one of the reasons why I stopped reading Kafka (a decade ago, though).

@d6 I finished, and I think my issue with kafkaesque literature in general extends to this book. Because holy Kafka.

@d6 I mean, now it's getting all weird and interesting and cool! But before that it was the quarters of Kafka in America, and oof.

@d6 I'm in the last part now, and, ooof. Maybe I'm just not intellectual enough for this.

What I really want to do is to read all books in the current scifi humble bundle and write reviews. Instead, I'm stuck in Dhalgren and it's going soooo slowly. https://www.humblebundle.com/books/start-a-new-series-books

Das richtig gute an einer konfessionsübergreifenden Familie ist ja, dass ich protestantische Arbeitsmoral optimal mit katholischen Schuldgefühlen verbinden kann.

If you want to learn more about typography and which letters are often confused with each other, check out this article: https://typography.guru/journal/letters-symbols-misrecognition/
It gives an overview over current reasearch, both for the general population and people with different reading requirements (due to dylexia, visual impairments, or age). Lots of sources, too!

NASA reports on their efforts to keep Voyager 1 and 2 running, and it's so impressive: https://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/news/details.php?article_id=114

@pskosinski So yeah, it fucks up the spacing on the monospace font (I don't have the regular one handy), but all the diacritics are there:

@hirojin If this is ASCII, I can live with it 😉

@pskosinski Oh, interesting, what are you missing? I only tested German ones and whatever came to mind afterwards (and was easily accessible via compose keys), like these.

I've been stuck on one book for the last two weeks, but at least I got my book blog post done: https://rixx.de/blog/books-2019-06/ #amreading

@koppts Well, every programmer prefers their own font selection, and of course technically every mono font "should be okay for programming".
But I found plenty wrong with B612 for programming: ":" and ";" look very similar, and they are placed far to the left instead of center, which looks very weird in a programming context. 0 and O are almost interchangeable, no markings for the zero. ( looks very much like a [ in other fonts. Those alone are dealbreakers for me.

In my experience, it does its job very well. I use it as display font for my status bars/GUI headers, and I like it very much. I wouldn't use it for long texts, especially for programming, though, and I *like* how it does one thing well.

Wisst ihr, was die allerbesten FAQ sind? Die, die es schaffen, sinnvolle Fragen zu stellen, und dann nicht zu beantworten.

Frage: Was kostet eine Registrierung?
Antwort: Für die Registrierung einer Vorsorgeurkunde im Zentralen Vorsorgeregister wird eine einmalige Gebühr erhoben. Sie deckt die dauerhafte Registrierung und Beauskunftung ab.

In related news, the trouble in getting MySQL to run on this CI server reminds me of my deep wish to drop MySQL support in pretalx.

If I knew who's running pretalx, I'd know what the impact of this would be, but here we are …