Yoric

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by Yoric 2y ago
Why?
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by Yoric 2y ago
Random idea: how hard would it be to convert your markdown to typst?
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by Yoric 2y ago
Have you tried mdbooks?
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by Yoric 2y ago
Hum. I did that last week. Might be because of the Fallout series, though. Or because of everything happening at the moment.
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by Yoric 2y ago
Ah, that's how I recall Vivien telling me the story, but that was a long time ago, I may be misremembering.
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by Yoric 2y ago
Note that "super-simple", "hard to footgun yourself" and "one way to do things that is consistent" are three very different things. I don't think that we yet have one language that is good at all that. And
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by Yoric 2y ago
Sounds like it's confusing C++ and Rust. To be fair, their syntaxes are rather similar.
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by Yoric 2y ago
No, Mozilla developed a full Firefox for iOS in ~2010, and Apple flatly refused to put it on the AppStore.
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by Yoric 2y ago
Not sure that's terribly different from any other message they've sent so far.
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by Yoric 2y ago
Syria, with its 17+ factions (including ISIS) rebellion is definitely... complicated. I wouldn't know where to lay blame, personally.
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by Yoric 2y ago
Building my own stuff: definitely. Doing all the admin work, all the capital raising, etc. needed to build my own stuff: I suspect that this would kill me. Joining a nice startup: been there, done that... will do it again :)
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by Yoric 2y ago
Yeah, last week, I took a few minutes to convert my mdbook draft to typst (most of it was renaming files, adding a main,typ and replacing `*` with `*`, `#` with `=` - I didn't have any tables), then happily proceeded from there and tow
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by Yoric 2y ago
Hey, I've just finished typesetting the first editors-ready draft for a book using typst 0.13-rc1! I love it.
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by Yoric 2y ago
Yeah, you're listing some of the reasons I left academia.
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by Yoric 2y ago
I've worked at one, too. That felt... disheartening.
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by Yoric 2y ago
I've had a professor who complained he hadn't been made co-author of a paper I wrote, despite the fact that he had not even bothered to read it despite me asking multiple times for his feedback. I asked him to read it and at least
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by Yoric 2y ago
I remember reading somewhere (atlas obscura, maybe?) that the US military was much more scared of a rogue general launching a nuclear strike than of the USSR starting the war. So I'm going to assume that there is _some_ kind of code.
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by Yoric 2y ago
I actually have been speculating since Trump 1 on whether Europe would eventually join the Chinese block. On the one side, we (now) have Trump both threatening Europe with the potential of an invasion of Groenland, and explicitly telling Ru
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by Yoric 2y ago
I don't know how it happens in the US, but in France, during several years, I had an error-code SSN. My papers had been misfiled at birth, due to the unreadable writing of the cleric who recorded my birth, and it took 2-3 years to fix
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by Yoric 2y ago
They can bring down the economy of much of the world, though, and that doesn't require much commitment.
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by Yoric 2y ago
Plenty of non-IT applications use lots of cores, e.g. physics simulations, constraint solving, network simulation used to plan roads or electrical distribution, etc.
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by Yoric 2y ago
I'm not entirely certain. Or perhaps we're all part of both groups. I want to understand LLMs. I want to understand my compiler, my gc, my type system, my distributed systems. On the other hand, I don't really care about K8s
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by Yoric 2y ago
You may be right. I'll need to double-check.
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by Yoric 2y ago
I think we're forgetting something. As far as I understand, most of the leaders of the historical NSDAP (the Nazi party) / the Nazi regime were not Nazis themselves, insofar as they did not believe in whatever was written in Mein
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by Yoric 2y ago
Sadly, this kind of brings back memories of a few regimes employing criminals for enforcement.
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by Yoric 2y ago
Just to clarify, who's the aggressor in what you write? The US?
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by Yoric 2y ago
Oh, I thought they were advocating for something new. Yeah, the split in/inout/out is nice, but doesn't sound particularly better than what we have in Rust. In particular, in my book, return values instead of `out` clearly wi
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by Yoric 2y ago
They can do it, they're just slower, less reliable and orders of magnitude more energy-expensive. But yes, they're potentially easier to setup.
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by Yoric 2y ago
I'm not sure I understand your argument. Rust is very much designed as a low-level language. If you want a higher-level language with similar guarantees, OCaml, Haskell, F# or Scala do the job very well already. The mechanism of argume
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by Yoric 2y ago
Having pattern types would be great!

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