Emmanuele BassiMar 5
This is definitely not how I imagined my Thursday would start
Show threadEmmanuele BassiMar 5
I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by the slop machine, hysterically feeding tokens to an LLM looking for an angry fix.
Show threadAlexandre MazariMar 5
@ebassi HarfBuzz? Yeah, that sucks.
Show threadretrimentalMar 5
@scaroo @ebassi
Can you (or anyone) explain what HarfBuzz is/does like I'm 5?
Show threadEmmanuele BassiMar 5

@retrimental it turns text into individual elements that can be mapped to individual shapes that can then be rendered. Latin is somewhat simple (if you ignore ligature marks and things like word breaks), but it gets really complicated for other, non-western writing systems

@scaroo

Show threadretrimentalMar 5

@ebassi @scaroo
Okay I think I get the gist of it now. Seems to convert the Latin alphabet into other languages outside the Latin alphabet in a way that tries to conform to our a standard way of writing/reading.

I could be wrong but that's what I got of it. Thank you guys.

So why the hell does that need AI?

Show threadthe thing 
@retrimental @ebassi @scaroo That's the problem. It doesn't.
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