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   by adiM 6y ago

   Boox Max 3, 13.3" eInk tablet. Bought just before the pandemic started and has been super useful in reader PDFs and writing notes, and even attending zoom calls(!) without any eye strain.
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   by adiM 6y ago

   Yes! After using MacBook Pro for almost a decade, I moved back to Linux for my laptop two years ago. I installed the Manjaro i3 image and I was expecting that it will take almost a week to tweak the settings so that all the hardware works a
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   by adiM 6y ago

   I started with pine about 20 years ago and have been using it since then (through the pine -> alpine -> re-alpine -> alpine cycle) but have never used Mutt. What are the advantages of mutt compared to alpine?
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   by adiM 6y ago

   I lost my sunglasses when I was wearing them! We were going to a state park for a hike. It was a 2 hr ride for which I was wearing my sunglasses but forgot. As we came out of the car to start the hike, I spent 5 minutes searching for my sun
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   by adiM 6y ago

   I am a longtime zsh user and tried fish earnestly for a month or so, but gave up because I could not figure out how to ignore certain patterns while auto-completing filenames. For example, I typically edit tex files and I don't want an
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   by adiM 6y ago

   There is no info about pricing on the main page? I really don't want to sign in to see the pricing info and details of other features.
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   by adiM 6y ago

   Interestingly the most populous cities in Canada--Toronto, Vancouver, and Montreal, are not there.
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   by adiM 6y ago

   There are only 16 pieces, but in most board positions, many pieces can make more than one legal move.
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   by adiM 6y ago

   Ah, missed that. Thanks
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    by adiM 6y ago

    > Don't start your command name with the letter g even though it's a perfectly fine letter situated right in the center of the keyboard. All past and future g commands are the personal property of Richard Stallman, who in 1983
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    by adiM 7y ago

    I have always assumed that the 'no two step in first move' is the reason of structure of all the _Indian defenses_: first move is a knight move followed by Bishop fianchetto. Most pawn moves are a single step pawn move. https:&#x
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    by adiM 7y ago

    I grew up in India and learnt chess from my grand father, who taught me two versions of chess: the standard western version and the Indian version. The Indian version differed in two rules: no castling (as Kramnik is proposing) and the pawn
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    by adiM 7y ago

    ConTeXt supports tagged pdf out of the box
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    by adiM 7y ago

    The grant-parent said "children of _illegal_ immigrants" and the parent is talking about "children of _Green card holders_". Green card holders are those who have immigrated legally.
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    by adiM 7y ago

    After this update, slack stopped working on Opera. Anyone else has the same problem?
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    by adiM 7y ago

    I have been using alpine (re-alpine before that and alpine before that and pine before that) for about 20 years and it ticks most of your check boxes: - Email notifications just work. I get a bell on my terminal when a new email comes and m
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    by adiM 7y ago

    I often wonder how hard it will be to have a metapost backend for PGF.
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    by adiM 7y ago

    Depends a bit on what you mean by "string-macro-framework". The thing with ConTeXt is that it has a well defined API, so even when you are processing data using macros, it does not feel awkward. Let me give a few examples of how I
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    by adiM 7y ago

    Feature wise, both LaTeX and ConTeXt are similar. Where ConTeXt really shines is the ease of use and consistency of the interface. 1. No need to run `pdflatex; bibtex; pdflatex; pdflatex` multiple times. The wrapper script `context` takes c
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    by adiM 8y ago

    A tangential point ... but power cuts in Himachal? I grew up in Himachal in the late 80s and 90s, and power cuts were extremely rare. Himachal was one of the few states that was power surplus and boasted of 100% electrification. Has this ch
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    by adiM 8y ago

    I use GPP as a wrapper to add features to markdown: https://adityam.github.io/context-blog/post/markdown-with-gp...
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    by adiM 8y ago

    ConTeXt provides similar feature called [modes]( http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Modes ) and you can imitate it in LaTeX using the [comment]( https://ctan.org/pkg/comment?lang=en ) package
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    by adiM 8y ago

    I'll simply quote a thread by William Adams on the context mailing list (copied from here http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Comparison_between_ConTeXt_and... , the link to the mailing list does not work) With a graphical to
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    by adiM 8y ago

    Thanks for the explanation.
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    by adiM 8y ago

    Is there a difference between Visual Studio's Windows and Linux versions?
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    by adiM 8y ago

    > Sure it meant that for a year and a half my spouse can't work Where does the year and a half come from? Green card processing delay? That can be 10+ years for approximately 50% of the world population (Indians + Chinese)
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    by adiM 10y ago

    So would an article explaining the basics of say dynamic programming be of interest? Are there "page" limits. For example, would a tutorial article that is about 20-30 pages in a traditional paper format be okay?
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    by adiM 10y ago

    Thanks for your reply. I have an account on LinkedIn but don't login often. LinkedIn keeps bombarding me with reminders about people work anniversaries, reminders of waiting invitations, etc. It gets annoying very quickly. Whenever I d
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    by adiM 10y ago

    Wait, how is LinkedIn any better than Facebook?
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    by adiM 10y ago

    Surprisingly, the article on Fano's inequality on Scholarpedia is written by Fano! http://www.scholarpedia.org/article/Fano's_inequality