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The quietest one I’ve found so far is Phillips Sonicare—it’s not much louder than an open tap or running shower.

Quietness is a quality easy to overlook until you find yourself reluctant to use it for fear of waking up everyone in your household/apartment building/surrounding neighborhood.

ibm choose ms-dos as their os because the owner of their first choice was out flying his plane when they went to make the deal so they went with their second choice bill gates

And Gates set up the meeting with the first guy, and as likely as not misrepresented its importance.

Say someone else takes the visual result of the font’s output and re-posts it as plain text.

If anyone searches for that text, their version will come up as the first (and only) published version. Anyone who tries to reference it will cite their version instead of yours. You’d have to convince the court that a clearly different text you published earlier is really the same thing, as long as you view it with a special font that magically transforms it into the text you’re trying to claim—the judge would just as likely think you’re a copyright troll.

If the underlying text says one thing but the font makes it appear to say something else, which version does the author own the copyright to?

The Dane County Sheriff’s Department got the wrong man. I got the right man. The wrong one was delivered to me as the right man, I accepted him on good faith as the right man. Was I wrong?

Bi is the only completely certain sexual orientation—everything else is potentially contingent on the set of people we’ve met so far.

The article quotes a post from ISBNdb saying the issue is model collapse from training on synthetic data.