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by AlanYx 4y ago
John Negroponte wasn't a founder of the OLPC project. His only involvement IIRC was in helping Nick negotiate the Intel partnership for OLPC.
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by AlanYx 4y ago
Another book that's on sale today is Mastering Emacs (20%).
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by AlanYx 4y ago
It's not related to tree-sitter, but recent work on using text properties instead of overlays for folded regions in org has improved performance opening org files with folded regions from O(n^2) to O(nlogn). See https://blog
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by AlanYx 4y ago
Judging from the transcript of SBF's conversation with the reporter from Vox, I wouldn't say he has a kid-like understanding of the world. Rather, his understanding of the world is a mixture of pure cynicism and total Machiavellia
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by AlanYx 4y ago
Plus both his parents are professors at Stanford Law school. I can see VCs having a natural bias towards "it would be unlikely for someone with this pedigree to operate so completely outside the law".
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I'm also intrigued by the column labelled "Accute fear" [sic].
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What I don't understand is how this doesn't fall afoul of US antitrust legislation, especially the rules on tied selling?
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I wonder if another aspect of it is an effort to minimize weight, in order to offset the weight of the battery. The Tesla model 3 long-range battery is 1060 lb. To put that in perspective, that's essentially hauling around the equivale
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by AlanYx 4y ago
There are no real prerequisites. In fact, in the introduction, Jaynes suggests that readers might be better off not having any previous introduction to statistics. That being said, there is an assumed level of general mathematical sophistic
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by AlanYx 4y ago
I think gcompris might be what you're looking for. It runs nicely on Raspberry Pis and there are several activities that are suitable for three year olds, as well as activities for older learners.
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by AlanYx 4y ago
Another one you might like is TT2020: https://copypaste.wtf/TT2020/docs/moreinfo2.html This one aims to replicate the ink characteristics of typewriters; there are 9 versions of each glyph that get combined via U
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by AlanYx 4y ago
For those who expect troff to be an ancient relic, Neatroff and Heirloom troff include modern features like microtypography. troff is still great for a lot of applications.
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by AlanYx 4y ago
This is beautifully written, but they're essentially reinventing emacs with org-mode (either that, or various Smalltalk environments, especially the Glamourous Toolkit's Lepiter). They mention emacs once, but the way they characte
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by AlanYx 4y ago
It would definitely be nice to see more color schemes targeted at users with color vision issues. Prot recently developed two emacs themes targeted at users with deuteranopia and tritanopia: https://protesilaos.com/emacs&#x2
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by AlanYx 4y ago
We've both got a collection of these types of devices :) I don't dislike the overall reading experience of the RM2; it's the file workflow and the highlighting workflow of the RM2 that in my experience let it down for documen
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by AlanYx 4y ago
>For everything else, you'd be better served by a Sony Digital Paper or a Fujitsu Quaderno I strongly agree with this, if your application is academic paper review or document review.
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by AlanYx 4y ago
This link is likely advertising, but they are on the verge of their 3.0 system software release which substantially adds to the functionality of the device. It goes from page-based notetaking to an optional infinite size canvas, and text bo
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by AlanYx 4y ago
It works well as an e-reader if you're loading it with PDFs. If you're loading it with ePubs, it converts these to PDF behind the scenes, but the internal converter is terrible (although it has improved). It also has a very peculi
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by AlanYx 4y ago
I guess I struggle to understand how being surrounded by hundreds of cartoonish avatars would improve the experience. It would be immersive in a sense, but also pretty clear that I was still not really at a concert.
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You jest, but "A Tale of Two Cities" was published in just under three-dozen weekly instalments in a periodical that did have advertising.
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by AlanYx 4y ago
I'm having trouble understanding how concerts are a "great use case for VR"... at a concert you sit/stand and look at the stage and listen to the music. Seems like that could be replicated with just a regular display and
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by AlanYx 4y ago
Meta might be a good value buy at these prices if they launched a dividend. But their free cash flow dropped close to zero in this last quarter, so that won't be happening.
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Popping open the link you provide only works for me in incognito mode on desktop. In regular mode on desktop, it appears to work, but very shortly after beginning to scroll, it pops up a box saying I have to log in to see more. On mobile, I
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by AlanYx 4y ago
Quantrix is still popular today for large financial modelling. The main advantage of Improv/Quantrix was that everything is named, and formulas are expressed as logical formulas, not references to spreadsheet columns, which makes the s
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What I like most about org mode tags is that regular expressions can be subtags (or "members of a group tag" in org mode lingo). So you can specify a hierarchy where the parents have children you don't know in advance.
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If you can't install applications locally, Logseq is a good alternative. It can operate entirely locally, with nothing installed, if your browser supports the localstorage API. Edge does, for example. (There are a small number of featu
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by AlanYx 4y ago
Do you need to be able to edit ink on your computer? If editing ink on-device is all you need, e-ink tablets that use PDF as their native file format (like the DPT-RP1 or Quaderno) fit well into an Obsidian workflow. You can sync/round
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That definitely gives you the basics. But it's worth noting that core org comes with a lot more functionality, e.g., calendaring, scheduling tasks (this is distinct from deadlines), blocking and ordered tasks, priorities, repeating tas
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Obsidian vs. org-mode is pretty much like VScode vs. emacs. Obsidian has a more immediately accessible interface and a big community of plugins, but the available plugins tend to operate at a higher level of abstraction. Obsidian is also do
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by AlanYx 4y ago
I think most people don't appreciate the extent to which extracurriculars, athletics and personal factors affect elite college admissions. Especially for things like computer science programs. I was in that bucket too, believing that i

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