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by _emacsomancer_ 2y ago
fixed now (late-night transposition).
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by _emacsomancer_ 2y ago
Well, I had it as → initially and changed it to ⇒ to try to indicate that the first change was a re-casting because Church was adapting Whitehead & Russell's notation for class-abstraction to a notation for function abstraction.
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by _emacsomancer_ 2y ago
termux on android can run emacs (for making it more usable, see: https://babbagefiles.xyz/termux-extra-keys-emacs-org-roam-no... )
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by _emacsomancer_ 2y ago
I think the point is that of intentional international languages (i.e., international in the sense of not being tied to any particular country), Esperanto is the most widely used one. That still is going to be a quite small number against E
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by _emacsomancer_ 2y ago
The actual page title "marshmallow test and parenting" is much better. The HN title makes it sound like it's only relevant to a subset of parents ("young ones").
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by _emacsomancer_ 2y ago
Ah, that's fair enough. I was thinking of the positive e-ink-like properties, but this is a good point. "e-paper" in fact makes more sense here.
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by _emacsomancer_ 2y ago
A transflective LCD[0] though (that they call "e-paper"), which, in user-facing terms, is similar to e-ink. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transflective_liquid-crystal_d...
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by _emacsomancer_ 2y ago
(could you make an account on the Fedi/Mastodon and/or Bluesky?)
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by _emacsomancer_ 2y ago
Ah, that makes sense - didn't really it was a uni thing.
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by _emacsomancer_ 2y ago
where is the recent essay?
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by _emacsomancer_ 2y ago
I get a "Cannot detect the reference pattern" error when I try with Ghostty with Typometer.
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by _emacsomancer_ 2y ago
Re: the Visual Zorker visualisation, see Andrew Plotkin's associated blog post: https://blog.zarfhome.com/2025/01/the-visible-zorker [ commentless HN discs: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?i
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by _emacsomancer_ 2y ago
see: - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42700426 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42699610
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Zork 1 with annotated panels showing its internal state and source code(blog.zarfhome.com)
2 points by _emacsomancer_ 2y ago|1 comments
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by _emacsomancer_ 2y ago
Also, for a wider search for packages across non-official channels: https://toys.whereis.social/
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by _emacsomancer_ 2y ago
I think maybe being logged in or not affects this
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by _emacsomancer_ 2y ago
Similarly, Under Mi Sleng Teng[1], but here too it required human musical talent. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleng_Teng
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by _emacsomancer_ 2y ago
I've written numerous technical articles and had to publish them in particular journals for academic promotion/retention reasons, and almost universally the (paid) editors (not the working for free other academic reviewers) added
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by _emacsomancer_ 2y ago
I think "use paper" is good for lots of things. But if I'm trying to quickly make notes of lots of things, I end up not being able to find things. Org-roam (or some other similar system) is what I've found to be a good s
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by _emacsomancer_ 2y ago
Funnily enough, I was idly playing with a last-updated-12-years-ago Markov chain text generator[0] in Emacs, and had quickly a number of amusing Markov chain outputs from mash-ups of the Elisp manual and Alice in Wonderland, including: &quo
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by _emacsomancer_ 2y ago
Curious what you did in FontForge to merge IM Fell Great Primer Italics into Doves Type Regular. (As I'd very much like to use Doves, e.g., for an e-reader font, but I do want to have italics for such purposes.) I made a native attempt
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by _emacsomancer_ 2y ago
A discussion of other digitisations: https://web.archive.org/web/20220705070449/http://luc.devroy...
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Remnants of a legendary typeface have been rescued from the Thames(news.artnet.com)
433 points by _emacsomancer_ 2y ago|88 comments
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by _emacsomancer_ 2y ago
In terms of apps, there is Firefly Nightly[0], built from the bones of the abandoned Mozilla client. [0]: https://github.com/Firefly-Social/Firefly
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by _emacsomancer_ 2y ago
I'm reminded of Ron Garrett's writing/talks on remote debugging the Remote Agent for the New Millennium Deep Space 1 (DS1).[0], [1] [0]: The Remote Agent Experiment: Debugging Code from 60 Million Miles Away - https:/&#
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by _emacsomancer_ 3y ago
Yes, I've been hoping for this; one amongst many reasons to be sad that Vinge didn't live longer.
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by _emacsomancer_ 3y ago
There's an interview with Vinge from 2009 [0] which contains a screenshot [1] of him using Emacs with his home-brewed proto-Org-mode annotation system (which appears in parent's link). [0]: https://web.archive.org/
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by _emacsomancer_ 3y ago
via: https://octodon.social/@cwebber/112100546598122825 (apparently based on actual code from NASA: https://shemesh.larc.nasa.gov/fm/pvs/TheMartian/ )
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Lisp in the Martian Film(fed.amodernist.com)
2 points by _emacsomancer_ 3y ago|1 comments
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50 Years of Text Games: poster sources(if50.textories.com)
1 points by _emacsomancer_ 3y ago|0 comments

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