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[–] [email protected] 143 points 4 days ago (5 children)

See the problem with this is that even if I write code with this font, I can't force people to read it in this font.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 days ago

Yes. The "problem".

[–] [email protected] 17 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Pretty sure you can use the 𝓾𝓷𝓲𝓬𝓸𝓭𝓮 𝓬𝓱𝓪𝓻𝓪𝓬𝓽𝓮𝓻𝓼

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

And then maybe you could use something like #define in C to map them back to valid characters? Not sure if there’s a good way to do that in other higher level languages.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

You could always write your own program that runs before the compiler. Simple character replace for those unicodes to ascii

[–] [email protected] 121 points 4 days ago (3 children)

Of course you can. Instead of committing the code to a repository, you just take screenshots of the everything and commit that instead.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 days ago (1 children)

You just said that somebody is in desperate need of a beating

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

Well, it’s not quite that bad, but it takes a special kind of person to send their very obviously visually impaired coworker screenshots instead of plaintext. And I know a few of them.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 4 days ago (2 children)

all code is written down in physical loose leaf notebooks

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Hey that's MY cursed python programming method... I wonder if I still have those books

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

Oh, so that's what those Python notebooks are that I've heard people talk about!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago

That way you don't need Gimp to make edits. I like it, very human!

[–] [email protected] 42 points 4 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 25 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

And then you program a runtime that calls an AI to parse images and execute your code in real-time!

[–] [email protected] 39 points 4 days ago (1 children)

You can if you paste it into a write protected pdf

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 days ago (1 children)

The only real way to write protect it is by printing the pdf into pdf (making it a pdf of an image).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I wonder if this font would screw up ocr?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 days ago

Unless the OCR were made for this font, probably yes.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Many editors can read config files from a file in the repository itself. And oftentimes it has the highest priority. Just gotta know the IDE of your target and they have to click "trust this project".

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 days ago

Just add it for VSCode and Jetbrains and you cover like 75-95% of devs