Totally agree, the same fonts at the same pixel sizes often look massively different in different environments. I -love- macOS’ native font rendering, but have been unsuccessfull in emulating it on Linux :/

Freetype can render almost indistinguishably from OSX post-Retina.

Set `FREETYPE_PROPERTIES="cff:no-stem-darkening=0 autofitter:no-stem-darkening=0"`, and then also enable (S)light hinting on LoDPI, or None on HiDPI. Also, disable subpixel and use greyscale only.

OSX looks the way it does because they use excessive stem darkening combined with incorrect gamma blending. GDI, WPF/UWP/WinUI, most ClearType/DirectWrite consumers, GTK, and most browsers also do incorrect gamma blending as well.

Qt is the exception. It enables stem darkening by default, but then uses correct gamma blending. Unfortunately, this is the objectively correct way of rendering, everyone else is doing it wrong.

The only thing you can't do is OSX gamma blends incorrectly for 1.8 on a 2.2-2.4 screen. Everyone else blends incorrectly for sRGB/2.2 on a 2.2-2.4 screen. Light on dark's obscene behavior on OSX shouldn't be replicated.

If you want the opposite, and make it look like Windows, force stem darkening off (use the above env, but set both to 1), and set hinting to Full to make it look like pre-Cleartype, or Medium to make it look like DirectWrite.

Why can you not enjoy both the journey and the destination? Surely you find some sub-disciplines of writing code more pleasant than others - can't you just keep doing those manually and offload/automate the rest to the machine?

Why is the comment calling out the biggest issue with this so heavily downvoted? Privacy is a massive concern with this.

You want the people that couldn’t create a competent TUI to make a messaging app?

… Or how hard it is to replace archaic software that’s extremely prevalent.

I agree, but surely your description is art in itself?

You're absolutely right -- that's the crux of the problem. There are no shortcuts, only future liabilities.

If you didn't catch it, this is a joke calling out the comment above it for using a couple obvious LLM-isms. The comment above may have been a joke, too. It's hard to tell any more.

What do you mean I'm not helping?

I mean you're not helping. Why is that?

What's a tortoise? What desert? How come I'd be there?

Maybe you're fed up. Maybe you want to be by yourself. Who knows?

Hm... Why? Ah! Because you are also a tortoise

Tortoise have been observed righting other tortoise that have become stuck. https://www.youtube.com/shorts/DZ57D608fiM (two tortoises helping a third) this has a terrible voiceover but you get the idea

They're just questions

> You're absolutely right

Bot detected

But crucially they used "--" and not "—" which means they're safe. Unless it's learning. I may still be peeved that my beloved em dash has been tainted. :(

Of course they'll learn. LLM bots have been spotted on HN using that hipster all lower case style of writing.

i can write like this if i want. or if i were a clever ai bot.

No need to be clever, just add the instruction to write in that way.

I think that's the joke.

I found the key insight -- when a human tries to sound like an LLM, that's perceived by other humans as humor.

The issue is clear

Not sarcasm. Not cynism. Just pure humor.

Oh my God, this is peak GPT.

Never admit when someone else is right. They'll forget they were right and begin to think they won a fight.

Or something. You're right.

At a certain point I used some "windows 11 debloat script" and I haven't encountered a bit of Copilot or any other AI nonsense anywhere in Windows since.

Even with all the debloat scripts you can’t get rid of it in places like Edge. And if your solution is to tell me to use a different browser then… exactly lol.

That could be because Claude offers a dedicated /init command to generate a CLAUDE.md if it doesn't exist.

Farming interactions on twitter

So.. spam?

we will need some sort of payment-block checkmark for use of social media soon enough. This claw phenomenon is opening the floodgates of spam even more than before