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by AlanYx 4y ago
Is Acreom inspired by Thymer or vice-versa? They seem quite similar in spirit and interface.
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by AlanYx 4y ago
It's released. It's not a separate download -- it's in the Glamorous Toolkit download (which makes sense from a Smalltalk perspective but may be weird if you're not used to it).
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by AlanYx 4y ago
If you like the emacs-like aspect of Pharo, the Glamorous Toolkit project (which is built on top of Pharo) is worth checking out too. They recently released a digital notebook tool called Lepiter that has a lot of similarities to org-roam&#
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by AlanYx 4y ago
I'm not the original poster, but here's an academic paper that found that 8:1 luminance contrast is optimal for reading, after which readability actually decreases: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/articl
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by AlanYx 4y ago
Depending on the extent to which this is impacting your life (for example, does it extend to your interpersonal relationships?), you may want to be assessed by a psychiatrist for Avoidant Personality Disorder (AvPD). This is one of the clus
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by AlanYx 4y ago
E-ink panels come in two types, one with a flexible backplane and one with a rigid blackplane. The former are durable and resistant to blunt blows; the latter are not. The ones with a flexible backplane don't necessarily require a rigi
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by AlanYx 4y ago
I think another big part of it is a desire to return to "personal computing" in the personal sense, as a reaction against subscription everything, sandboxed app everything, polished everything. Cyberdecks are under your control, f
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by AlanYx 4y ago
That's a great page. Would you happen to know of a similar type of resource for statistics?
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by AlanYx 4y ago
That makes sense to me. Kilpatrick's simulated annealing paper was published in Science in 1983, so he could have run across the term while browsing through issues of Science . (Another theory is that he might have spotted various c
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by AlanYx 4y ago
The amount of research Gibson did for Neuromancer is really impressive and sometimes shines through in the text. For example, at one point he talks about an "annealing" algorithm. The term "simulated annealing" was first
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by AlanYx 4y ago
>"They come to a house looking for you - and you are not there. And they kill the wife, they kill the children, eliminate everybody in the family. Villages and villages are orphanages, because of Famo music," says one of its or
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by AlanYx 4y ago
>Also, why can't Lenovo follow up the Yoga Book C930?! Have you seen the ThinkBook Plus Gen 2? This is the spiritual successor to the C930, with dual LCD/eink screens.
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by AlanYx 4y ago
emacs, both for the elegance of its elisp-machine design and for how good its self-documentation is.
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by AlanYx 4y ago
Butterick’s advice en dashes is fairly controversial though, in that it's the opposite of the advice given in Robert Bringhurst’s The Elements of Typographic Style and other works, with no real explanation given for Butterick's
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by AlanYx 4y ago
Dasung panels are properly licensed from eInk Corp. They (Dasung) actually have a couple patents of their own on their e-ink driver board tech, which drives the panels. If you're searching a patent database, search for "Beijing Da
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by AlanYx 5y ago
These things go in cycles. A lot of people don't realize that Scopes actually lost the Scopes Monkey Trial, and that the tide didn't turn overwhelmingly to rationalism in public education until the 1958 National Defense Education
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by AlanYx 5y ago
That's a fascinating paper -- thanks for sharing it.
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by AlanYx 5y ago
Thanks! I found a whitepaper describing the tech: https://www.sharpmemorylcd.com/resources/Polarizer-free_Refl... In terms of display properties it's in a pretty sweet spot between eink (electrophoretic displays)
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by AlanYx 5y ago
Is that the same technology as RLCD, or is it a different type of display?
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by AlanYx 5y ago
They actually removed the statement that you're quoting from the current version of the Google Drive terms of service. (The old version you're quoting is still available online, but it's under an "/archive" URL
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by AlanYx 5y ago
If you don't have experience with people prone to emotional dysregulation, it's hard to appreciate how it works, but you don't need to resort to such an artificial scenario like your gun scenario. People with some personality
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by AlanYx 5y ago
You can't always work through emotional dysregulation issues (inability to return to baseline after six hours of argument being one indicator of such issues) by just talking it out. Sometimes you can, sometimes it's associated wit
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by AlanYx 5y ago
>This building looks like a first draft The crazy thing is that Le Corbusier spent months on the design of the south wall. It wasn't a rushed project at all; this was late career Le Corbusier at the height of his creative vision. To
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by AlanYx 5y ago
I agree that the wig selfie is processed in some way that makes it appear fake, but I think the hair pictures aren't necessarily inconsistent. She may have only lost chunks of hair rather than all of her hair, which seems sort of cons
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by AlanYx 5y ago
I think it's kind of fascinating that the description of the culture of the "old, dank pub" could equally apply to Emacs and other long-lived free software projects.
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by AlanYx 5y ago
I don't think you're an outlier really. IMHO the problem with Snow Crash is that it hasn't aged well. I enjoyed it in the mid-90s, but I recently re-read it, and found it hard to get through (until the very end, anyway). It f
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by AlanYx 5y ago
Have you seen this? https://github.com/nobiot/Zero-to-Emacs-and-Org-roam It's still a work-in-progress but it may be along the lines of what you're looking for. Personally, I wouldn't recommend setting u
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by AlanYx 5y ago
pixel-scroll-precision-mode is in the mainline (Emacs 29), but didn't make it into Emacs 28. If you're on a Mac, the railwaycat port has the equivalent already.
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by AlanYx 5y ago
Malice isn't required if the party being defamed is a private figure. See para. 62 of the judgment: "Because the Gibsons were private figures in this libel case, they were required to prove only that Oberlin acted with negligence,
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by AlanYx 5y ago
> Isn't the solution to clarify that the student senate is not an official body of the college and that its views do not represent the college's views I don't even think that's necessary. Sachs is leaving out a lot of

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