Actually: Paris in the the spring

'the' comes twice

That's one trick part of the the question (a common trick, a lot of people don't read two "the"s in a row), but the other answer could be "what you read in the triangle below" as that's what the question states.

The other trick is that the line could be too short depending on your handwriting, in theory disqualifying the tested person regardless of what they write down.

That's diabolical. But it's not certain if even that's correct. Depends on how the comma should be interpreted.

And the person who answered wrote the last two words such that they're not "on the line provided", so regardless of which phrase they're supposed to write, they got the question wrong.

Assuming they did write the correct thing, and assuming the test administrator would be unusually generous about the placement of the words, they still got it wrong: they left off the colon at the end.

Makes sense since the Russians have been fiddling with time and seems to have turned it back to 1962.

Or moving from RCS to CVS.

Yes, you shouldn't "boil the ocean".

You should usually also not "model the ocean"

Is this a surprise?

Isn't this exactly what Naftali Tishby has been talking about [1].

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XL07WEc2TRI

I think this might be a client-side issue, since I can see those letters normally.

I also had that issue when reading the article on Safari/iOS. Switching to reader mode fixed it though.

No issue on Firefox/Linux.

Looks like a platform-specific font rendering issue?

No 'r's or '3's on Safari/Mac. It's a custom font 'Cantarell', evidently a bit broken.

> evidently a bit broken

And here I thought the author was making a fragmentation joke.

I don't see `r`s. Firefox/Mac

I can't reconcile this article with additional background [0]. Maybe what we see here is one party shouting loudest...

[0] https://academicrightswatch.se/?p=4766

That article (at least how I read it via Google Translate) seems to focus on the process and the testimony of one of the witnesses being flawed, but fails to address the fact that there was more than one witness to many examples of this bad behavior (and doesn't even refute that the bad behavior happened at all). So maybe the initial investigation wasn't perfect, but I'm still inclined to believe accounts of unacceptable assholery that were corroborated by multiple witnesses.

What’s the problem?

I’m white and can need to be reminded that I’m actually in minority on this planet, but act as I’m not. The text is pretentious, but I can take that.

It is a pity that PostScript has to live such a dwindling life. It is a very fascinating language in itself. After Display PostScript disappeared, I think the only use is in printers nowadays. I once invested in a development environment for PostScript — psalter — where I could step through code and see contents on the various stacks. I used it when developing overlays on printouts of scanned images, as PostScript files with TIFF content was much smaller than print bitmaps from Windows and LANs weren’t faster than 10 MBit :) It made a huge difference in printout speeds.

I also found a bug in libtiff by studying produced PostScript. I don’t think anybody looks at this anymore.

The two reasons I don't use postscript directly are lack of alpha blending and no unicode support. Remapping the font to get characters beyond ASCII is too awkward.

If you specifically target Ghostscript, you do get alpha blending as an extension though, right?

I guess the closest thing is METAPOST?

Wishing I could find a more interactive environment for using it than a lualatex document open in a TeX IDE and getting a preview as a PDF which can't be interacted with.