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Yeah, after fixing all the icons, what is there left to do?
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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I always preferred K&R when I worked on small screens, because I could see more code at once. now that I have huge screens, I like Allman better, because the braces line up. The guy with the fashionable little laptop must have won the battle.
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My font rendering pretty much works.
Except GPOS positioning is broken because, get this:
my code returns different results if I read the file into a buffer, and then work against that, versus when i read the file by streaming it, but only in one place I've seen so far. - the 16-bit word at position 32416. Now, in order to even get there it had to read a ton of information from that same file, correctly. I've debugged this portion of the code ad nauseum. Everything appears to check out except the data I'm getting back - particularly freading the the 8 bits at byte offset 32417 in Shangar.ttf - the correct result is 26 but I'm getting 90 when I try to stream it. It's maddening.
I can't work it out for the life of me. Consequently, it works for the string "42" but not "jsc42" - this is your fault man! 
I am completely stumped. Now I'm going through byte by byte to see if I can figure out why.
Real programmers use butterflies
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I'm so sorry! If I had know that I was a software jinx, I wouldn't have asked for a favour from you. I'm sure you will work it out without me having to change my CP name.
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In seriousness, I'm actually grateful for the ask, because I prefer to *know* about my bugs! 
Real programmers use butterflies
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You're near the "1K" mark. My device adventures included taking note of things like 256 and 512 (cause that's what someone was buffering with).
It was only in wine that he laid down no limit for himself, but he did not allow himself to be confused by it.
― Confucian Analects: Rules of Confucius about his food
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90 is 64 + 26... would that help?  (no idea if it does, just wanted to show the one extra faulty bit)
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I had old code in my codebase! There was a stream class that was opening files "r" instead of "rb" (so it was text mode)
I had fixed that before, but somehow an old copy wound up in my code, throwing everything off.
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Good you found it! 
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I'd appreciate your feedback on this first draft for my first Tweet; I mean: does it come across as "not woke," or, "virtue signaling," or, could it "trigger" someone's ("vocabulary challenged" ?) delicate sensibilities ?Quote: In spite of Twitter raising the permissible Tweet length from one-hundred-forty to two-hundred-eighty characters, the most compelling reason to never create a Twitter account is the difficulty, if not impossibility, of saying anything intelligent in two-hundred-eighty characters.
Does that sound more like a "cheep" than a "tweet" ?
thanks, in advance, for helping me come out of the gate ready to gallop !
p.s. do you think a post like this might get a following (stalking ?) from other OCD Tweeters; or, get me flamed by the "Remember140" collective; or, attacked for contributing to climate change by wasting pixels ?
«One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams.» Salvador Dali
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BillWoodruff wrote: of saying anything intelligent in two-hundred-eighty characters.
Brevity is a sign of superior intelligence.
See? 
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Marc Clifton wrote: See?
C? FTFY
The less you need, the more you have.
Why is there a "Highway to Hell" and only a "Stairway to Heaven"? A prediction of the expected traffic load?
JaxCoder.com
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O
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"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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!U2?
The less you need, the more you have.
Why is there a "Highway to Hell" and only a "Stairway to Heaven"? A prediction of the expected traffic load?
JaxCoder.com
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I 
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Marc Clifton wrote: Brevity is a sign of superior intelligence.
The use of the word "brevity" out of context is semiotically ambiguous, if not vacuous  
«One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams.» Salvador Dali
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I fail to see why an obviously intelligent person would want a Twitter account in the first place. Given that you do want a Twitter account, why should you care what Twits with pretensions to literacy think of your prose?
As for the actual message, intelligent Tweeters (the null set?) might see it as a challenge, while the Intellectual Proletariat would probably see it as condescending (i.e. you use multi-syllabilic words). In neither case do I see this ending well.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Yes, and "more characters" won't make them sound any more intelligent. In fact ...
It was only in wine that he laid down no limit for himself, but he did not allow himself to be confused by it.
― Confucian Analects: Rules of Confucius about his food
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Daniel Pfeffer wrote: why an obviously intelligent person would want a Twitter account in the first place
Me too ! 
«One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams.» Salvador Dali
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Oh, you were expressing yourself in the subjunctive. 
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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... more in the meta-subjunctive, at the semantic boundary where fantasy becomes irony ?
cheers, Bill
«One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams.» Salvador Dali
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Daniel Pfeffer wrote: I fail to see why an obviously intelligent person would want a Twitter account in the first place.
I've got a Twitter account, but it is set to private as are all Tweets made using it. It's so I can test code or other solutions that integrate with their API before I point it towards a customer's account. Those customers use it for business purposes, press releases, and other public statements.
Now I'm not trying to imply that I'm intelligent, I think my first tweet was along the lines of "Is this thing even working!?" which I then promptly deleted. Nor am I implying that my customers are, even though some are quite well educated. For that matter, does Neil deGrasse Tyson fall into the null set of intelligent Tweeters (Twits?)?
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Given the reputation of Twitter, it is not a place where I would expect to find intelligent conversation or intelligent people. By way of analogy, there may be perfectly innocent reasons for a man to be in the red-light district after dark, but the odds are against it.
I stipulate that some intelligent people may find it a useful tool, but again - the odds are against it.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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You can get a Haiku into 140 characters:
On a moonlit pond
See a perfect ringlet grow
As each raindrop falls
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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This is a beautiful haiku !
While the ironic/satiric intent of my 280 character proto-tweet post was, apparently, lost in translation for most ... I think your reply has redeemed it
«One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams.» Salvador Dali
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