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<p>I mostly post about birds, food, and fun.</p><p>I help Dan manage discuss.systems</p><p>Washed up, has been grad student</p>

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    I’m being forced to use PowerPoint these days and its font rendering is so bad!!! Like Keynote wasn’t that great, but PowerPoint straight up does not support opentype features, something that a text editor should do. There’s no support for the multi-table kerning, making any modern font without truetype useless, it almost renders those fonts as each letter being a separate block. And even truetype support isn’t that great. The font menu has no options to adjust font features outside of barebon...

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    @dan@discuss.systems you should get this

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    I dunno how electronics engineers manage to work with the difficult nature of their field. I remember the robotics and electronics students at UCSC working 18-hour days to meet the lab requirements,, like how do you keep this up. Guess they have no option but to keep soldering on

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    The light is insane right now

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    IT IS JUST LIKE TWILIGHT

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    Blurry pictures of Midnight Cowboy (great blue heron)

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    RE: https://discuss.systems/@dev/117171791311763144 Better color. I had no idea they were active at night. Oh to be a blue heron fishing under the full moon.

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    https://www.ctvnews.ca/montreal/article/kraft-dinner-spills-onto-quebec-highway-after-truck-crashes/

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    Ah yes the five genders

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    I got ceramic keycaps for my keyboard! My keyboard is now cool to touch!! And more importantly, it thocks!!

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    Aww I like the dog

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    You know this is a poser library bar because the books are color sorted not dewey decimal

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    This came to me in a dream so I had to boot up affinity photo 2 and make this a reality: Presenting: The Dolma-ites

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    Happy B’day to the man, the myth, the Legend, Minion!

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    Oh my god, these are real, actual slides from a SoftBank presentation. Pulitzer-worthy https://group.softbank/media/Project/sbg/sbg/pdf/ir/investors/shareholders/2026/shareholders-meeting_46_05_en.pdf

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    Long shot but anyone outside US on here who is an established academic or industry person in systems willing to vouch for my systems credentials for visa purposes? I need letters from neutral experts who haven’t worked with me, I know quite a few in the US but not a lot outside (which counts as much). Can discuss more 1-1

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    Yes https://youtu.be/H-43VeYGiPM

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    Film is back! Some of my favorite pictures! #Believeinfilm

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    I used the new “intelligent” siri, took a screenshot and asked it to “remind me tomorrow to register for this” It added an event called “register for this” to my reminders To fix this in the follow up I asked it if it could include the description or url in the reminder and

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    God I wish

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    Extremely suspicious about putting something called “florida crystals” in my coffee

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    I met Loki and instantly became friends!

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    Happy Earth Day! Some of my favorite pictures that I’ve taken on the earth

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    lol https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/21/business/spacex-cursor-deal.html?unlocked_article_code=1.clA.btbs.DA_NfRpUTMpB&amp;smid=nytcore-ios-share

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    I see him frequently

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    I went to a kelp book event! It was really cool! We talked about bull kelp, urchins, and otters! They had keep themed drinks and then I got to walk home through spooky dark ft Mason!

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    Péter Magyar is such a funny name for a prime minister of Hungary. I hope the next US president is named like Jane Unitedstates

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    I’m at the “morale” event and getting mixed messages

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    I got the shork library card!!