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congrats on the house i guess

I kinda doubt they will fire you unless you specifically try to get fired. Just telling them that you wont be using LLMs, but you will continue to do work, probably wont be enough

I think despite the layers of ignorance and social hierarchy performance, the people who make these decisions in software companies still kinda know not to mess with Scruffy the Janitor.

The company I work for is sort of on a similar track, I just don't have the same ability to walk whenever I want to.

@gabek put the source up anyway!!

I was recently in a room with about 6 or 7 other people who had just received a free apple TV from an auction lot and were (AFAIK) planning on "using tvos like you do"

@nolan the default windows emoji are just soooo ugly ,

wait so it looks like twemoji is the one where they try to make all the different fonts for each OS but w/ the same source emojis right ? I think I had tried to embed that in my site somehow but it wasn't working at the time. I'll have to read more about it.

Right now I'm just letting the OS do whatever and letting it be ugly on windows, I guess cuz I can't be bothered to do an image emoji filter of some kind

@nolan last time I was looking at emojis and fonts it looked to me like the main problem is that there are two or three different standards for how emojis can be encoded inside a font and rendered, so you can't just provide a font to your website viewers and be done with it. You would need 1 font for windows, 1 font for Mac, etc etc.

Is that still the case ?

Iirc I was trying to figure out how to get a consistent emoji look across all platforms and it seemed like tools to do that by constructing one of each type of font from source images or from a source font don't exist (well, besides using images like you said)

If I understand correct this is actually an OS font rendering thing not a browser thing ? All the sub pixel rendering stuff for fonts being different, and different mega corps each building thier own separate way to do emojis

@notplants Jokes aside, yeah, this is really good.

Comes with some UI problems though, like, how do you achieve that while still Interacting with the user / world and keeping them informed about why things happen

@notplants I don't know. I'm still working on "become ungovernable" myself ;P

@lexfeathers At any rate, the SVG that has the stroke on it might have to be flying on top of everything else, not necessarily interacting with the layout.

Like position: absolute inside position: relative, and z-index or something, I don't know. I would have to play with it to figure it out.

@lexfeathers Right, yeah, based on looking at this, I wonder if you could simply apply a stroke to your existing SVG that's being used as the clip path.

https://css-tricks.com/clipping-masking-css/#aa-using-clip-path-with-an-svg-defined-clippath

Also, I just realized I, uh, necroposted on something from month ago

@lexfeathers

Help me understand, this is a div that has a transparency mask which is specified by a SVG bezier curve path. Is that correct?

I've never used one of those before so I don't really know how they work. I don't know if the div is inside the SVG or if the SVG is external to the div and kind of applies as a filter or what.

But regardless of how it works, as long as you can somehow create a separate SVG image that has the same path inside that is overlaid on top of the div with the exact same dimensions, you should be able to apply a stroke to it that way. It's hacky but it should work.

Assuming this is what I think it is, I don't think CSS border image is going to do exactly what you want here.

At any rate, providing a link to the web page or to the source code which would allow someone to render the web page in a browser fairly easily, would really help here. Web hackers love nothing more than opening up the developer tools and messing with someone's site to demonstrate a point.