IlliOnato

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by IlliOnato 3y ago
LaTeX is a programming language for generating beautiful pages, basically a typesetting system. It serves this purpose fantastically well. It was not designed to provide semantic information, unfortunately. So getting anything other than v
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by IlliOnato 3y ago
For scientific articles pagination is still important, because it's how you refer to a particular part of a paper. If things like font size and line spacing are at the control of the consumer, pagination is not preserved. This problem
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by IlliOnato 3y ago
On the other hand, "semantic" flavor of MathML (as opposed to "presentation") is much easier than TeX for things like screen readers, both conceptually and in practice.
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by IlliOnato 3y ago
+1
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by IlliOnato 3y ago
But it's still a single source of truth. Only one document is submitted. So for works submitted as HTML no PDF or LaTeX version is available.
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by IlliOnato 3y ago
HTML is not generated from PDF. Both PDF and HTML are generated from LaTeX.
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by IlliOnato 3y ago
It would be nice, but I am not holding my breath.
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by IlliOnato 3y ago
Well, perhaps by exploiting bugs/shortcomings in PDF and HTML converters. Not by design. However, bugs get fixed, and since the PDF and HTML are generated dynamically, any such hack would be extremely fragile. And while "single s
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by IlliOnato 3y ago
In Europe, Firefox usage was 30-40% (depending on a country) before Chrome has arrived.
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by IlliOnato 3y ago
The magazine is given to you for free, you don't pay for it. The magazine is able to detect that your butler is cutting out the ads. The magazine decides it does not want to send you its issues any more. Is that illegal?
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by IlliOnato 3y ago
Why not on a piece of paper then?..
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by IlliOnato 3y ago
I guess if an asteroid is has high albedo already, a dark paint would be better for this purpose then dark. What you want is to make sure that some parts reflect much more light than other parts. However, I don't think you need vanta-b
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by IlliOnato 3y ago
Except that the errors made by an LLM might be harder to spot then converter errors that typically are very blatant, and don't usually alter text (perhaps just drop parts of it). Also, a bug in a converter is conceptually much easier t
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by IlliOnato 3y ago
For me the PDF is much better. It's compact and clean, if I really need to see an affiliation for a particular author, it's really easy to do so in the PDF, not so in the HTML. It's highly unlikely anybody will read an entire
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by IlliOnato 3y ago
It may be even that the time is taken to generate a PDF. The format in which articles are submitted and stored in arXive is LaTeX. PDF is automatically generated from it. Probably arXiv does some caching of PDFs so they don't have to
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by IlliOnato 3y ago
No, it would not. It's critically important that there is only one "logical" article, albeit with different representations. In other words, a single "source of truth". With "sideloading" of HTML there is
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by IlliOnato 3y ago
But the PDF is also generated. LaTeX is the single source of truth.
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by IlliOnato 3y ago
Yeah, it seems like a bug in HTML generator...
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by IlliOnato 3y ago
Which checkbox? I cannot find anything relevant in any of the 3 browsers I use (Vivialdi, Firefox, Chrome). Would really appreciate this option. A quick search gave some apparently unmaintained browser extensions, and it's it.
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by IlliOnato 3y ago
This is definitely one of the possible approaches, which is being studied too. As other commenters mentioned, this would be much harder technically and much more expensive than "nuking", but in some particular scenarios (I think w
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by IlliOnato 3y ago
Just to illustrate the level of the nudges involved. The most dangerous currently known asteroid is Bennu, with 24 September 2182 as the most likely date of hitting Earth. To do so, Bennu must pass through a gravitational "keyhole&quo
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by IlliOnato 3y ago
Not if, for example, equally qualified engineers not working for Masimo are not offered the same salaries. Of course something like this is not easy to prove.
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by IlliOnato 3y ago
I see. I thought the product was actual tabletops and the like. But this is terminology. What I did not quite get was that what I'd call "production", i.e. making the actual tabletops, happens not at a central facility but at
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by IlliOnato 3y ago
Nope, the product does not cause death, at least not according to this article. It is production that causes severe and potentially deadly illness. And not because the production process inherently deadly, but because of rampant non-compl
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by IlliOnato 3y ago
Having to create a function where a simple expression would suffice is "typing in mittens" programming...
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by IlliOnato 3y ago
You are right, of course. Sorry! "Colon belongs to Larry" :-) I think I made this mistake because :: was used in one of the drafts for Perl 6, but the final specification uses !!
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by IlliOnato 3y ago
A was not using Perl as an argument, I am just much more familiar with Perl than C, so I wondered if the ternary operator works differently in C than in Perl, making it more problematic/less useful.
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by IlliOnato 3y ago
What you mean by "breaking inside"? You cannot nest ternaries, but you can chain them (see my other comment above).
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by IlliOnato 3y ago
I would say that languages where "if" can be used as expression provide a different (perhaps better) syntax for the same ternary operator. a = if x then y else z is just a more verbose version of a = x ? y : z;
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by IlliOnato 3y ago
Chained ternaries are quite readable when formatted as tables... a = (x < 5 ) ? 'LESS' : (x > 5 ) ? 'MORE' : 'SAME';

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