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by JadeNB 2y ago
With nothing against this particular hoster, why not link the official site https://tug.org/texlive , or https://tug.org/texlive/acquire.html ?
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by JadeNB 2y ago
Although it's probably not at the top of many people's minds (includind mine) as a favorite programming language, Mathematica does have fantastic help, accessible with `?` and expandable from there as needed.
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A related ancient XKCD with a slightly different take: https://xkcd.com/447/
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> One interesting thing about software as career followed by math classes is that there's no compiler - you can type any janky thought into LaTeX and if you don't detect that it's bogus, nothing will, until you show it to
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by JadeNB 2y ago
> Where do you observe the promotion of the absurd narrative that says that the rich are better humans? This is kind of like asking where one observes the promotion of the absurd narrative that white people are better people. It's
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by JadeNB 2y ago
> My $2000 linux desktop is still faster and snappier than the $4000 macbook, but it’s the only thing laptop sized that feels even close. What brand?
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Certainly all policy matters are political, in at least the sense that politicians want to be seen to be pursuing the policies that are supported by those who votes they expect or want, and to be seen to be fighting against the policies tha
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by JadeNB 2y ago
> Go back to 1950 and try to breath in LA. Go to your local gas station and ask for leaded fuel. To measure the PH of the next rain fall. There are been many environmental wins over the decades. Your parent might mean by "we" t
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by JadeNB 2y ago
I know that, inevitably, the cooler the functionality of an extension, the more permissions it requires, but I get uncomfortable giving "read and change all your data on all websites" and "modify data that you copy and paste&
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> Saying quaternions require thinking in 4 dimensions seems like a lie with no proof. How could one even subject a statement like that to proof? If you insist that you thought about quaternions without thinking in 4D, and the author ins
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> nobody tell him What?
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> It also just seems more painful (like for the hands). If you're anything like me, that's the experience of writing with cheap pens and pencils, but finding the right grip for you can make writing a totally different experienc
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> * Pilot Precise V2 I've only ever heard of V5 (0.5 mm) and V7 (0.7 mm), and Googling doesn't turn up a V2. Is there one, or was this a typo?
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> Also, I wonder if @chaps can give his reasoning on going directly for litigation? In Illinois there is an alternate avenue where you can ask the AG to intervene. (I hate this route myself because it has become slow and toothless) There
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> in principle, the FOIA process gives the organization being requested time to think about what needs to be masked to protect privacy. Although of course that's a lot more in principle than in practice! Like rolling your own crypt
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by JadeNB 2y ago
We just had a thread on Ladybird that seemed positive, but I haven't tried it and so don't know what it's like as a browser. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43200604
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by JadeNB 2y ago
> If they can't stop abusing their users, I will look for another browser, goddamnit. This seems to go beyond "can't stop" to "are actively plotting a course to continue." I've seen a lot of missteps fr
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> Definitely not. (He may do that, I just hadn't ever heard of that book before today.) I think it was one of Isaacs, Herstein, or Artin, but I'm a bit too lazy to dig through my old books at the moment. Herstein does it.
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> This makes me wonder whether the usual order for function application is an artifact of the S-V-O sentence structure in western European languages. Maybe if Euler had been raised in a language with a S-O-V sentence structure, we would
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by JadeNB 2y ago
Probably a reference to the changes described in the post linked at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43194536 . It's not clear to me that that's what it says, but it's also not clear to me that that'
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> I know of at least one organization that began outright mandating war rooms after running the numbers and discovering how many incidents would have benefitted from having one. How can you run numbers to find out what would have happene
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I wonder how many of us picked up this habit from COVID? It definitely got me to appreciate my local flora way better, and the fact that I get weird looks for bending down to take pictures of tiny little insect and plant life is, well, let
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They responded on another post ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43160338 ): it's https://www.instagram.com/ct_thelittlethings .
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> > Why you can rely on the Guardian not to bow to Trump – or anyone > Oh, Jesus. That's a non sequitur. It's not part of the article—in fact, it doesn't even show up for me. The Guardian often inserts fundraising p
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> The philosophy behind IBM RACF is :《 A key security principle is the separation of duties between different users so that no one person has sufficient access privilege to perpetrate damaging fraud.》 I am so primed to parse emoticons ea
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> No, “vetting” basically means they checked to see if you ever got caught embezzling money, or in the case of clearances, if you lied about committing any crimes (committing them is ok). They are regular people and getting them to abide
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> > Ask yourself this: why would anyone in the world be subjected to these whimsical nationalistic banana republic renaming stunts? > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Google_LLC_(2... Wikipedia s
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If that's the second most embarrassing thing that happened to you this week, and the first is something that only nearly happened, then I'd say it's been a good week.
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> My plan to sell flavoured printer toner has been foiled. > Who would not want their print out to smell like fresh apple pie? I know it's a joke, but surely flavoured printer toner would taste like fresh apple pie?
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> There is a Typst package called MiTeX that supports at least some basic TeX input. I can see that being useful for lots of people, but, as a migration path (as I understood your parent https://news.ycombinator.com/item?

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