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by alephaleph 4y ago
In the post they say they didn’t do this bc they’d just be trading long strings for deeply nested objects.
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by alephaleph 4y ago
IIRC one of Hedy’s unique features is that it gradually increases in complexity as you “level up” including introducing what we’d call “breaking changes”. At level 4, they start allowing and requiring you to quote string literals: https:
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by alephaleph 4y ago
To be honest I wouldn't recommend it just yet. Right now Typst doesn't expose that many layout primitives for math -- stuff like fractions are special-cased in the compiler. It all should be theoretically possible -- technically e
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by alephaleph 4y ago
> Math fonts and plain text fonts should be different. If you put quotes around something, you get plain text font. Why? LaTeX defaults to Computer Modern for both text in math and normal text. And if you want to change just the math fon
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by alephaleph 4y ago
I don't think the fact that you need to look up and copy recipes and download packages to do most complex formatting is a strength of LaTeX, and one of Typst's stated design goals is to make formatting composable enough that you d
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by alephaleph 4y ago
people are reporting similar in the discord, I think their email service is just getting a little hammered rn
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by alephaleph 4y ago
this isn't even a hack -- in Typst you write `$a b$` for implicit products, `$ab$` is always parsed as an identifier and you'll get a compile error if its not defined.
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by alephaleph 4y ago
Unfortunately Typst is completely incompatible with LaTeX and its packages, so you either have to go back to working on your thesis or procrastinate even more by reimplementing these yourself!
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by alephaleph 4y ago
The first bullet point is incorrect. In normal text, you use # for functions and symbols, i.e. #sym.phi or #emph. In math blocks, you don't use # for stuff like phi or floor but that's because it interprets everything as a functio
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by alephaleph 4y ago
getting some kind of error at 0% of "twitter.exe"? The details just say serverError.
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by alephaleph 4y ago
It seems pretty reasonable to call a punitive action that is intended to cause bodily harm violence.
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by alephaleph 4y ago
is the website still alive? getting a bad certificate and if I push past it I get a "Coming Soon"
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by alephaleph 4y ago
Lena all over again
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by alephaleph 4y ago
or the concept of sleep: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3CRpqI4rd0wx8RndZA2dKr?si=...
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by alephaleph 4y ago
Through experimentation I have determined that this model has no idea what klezmer music is :(
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by alephaleph 4y ago
This is one of the really gross things about it. It felt like finance assholes disguising themselves in t-shirts and jeans in order to cash out on two decades of breathless techno-optimism being regurgitated by the press, in order to get re
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by alephaleph 4y ago
My objection to her minting her art as an NFT was that she was going to lose money on it! She was about to become a bagholder in a market she probably didn’t even realize was a market! The fundamental value of physical artworks is getting
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by alephaleph 4y ago
I’m surprised how little I hate this piece; cryptocurrency is much more palatable when it’s claiming to be the tor of money and not the future of money. But I think it downplays the extent to which the latter claim is harmful, and just how
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by alephaleph 4y ago
most forms of nondestructive editing
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by alephaleph 4y ago
*they, this is why they hate their tweets being posted here
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by alephaleph 4y ago
don't open this link during a meeting, the header image is freaky
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by alephaleph 4y ago
How could they make the mistake obvious? It's a mistake in a string value!
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by alephaleph 4y ago
People have suggested glitch and neocities, which are probably the closest to what you’re describing, but I’d like to add a few more that are close to but not quite what you’re asking about: Carrd is ubiquitous among a certain kind of zoome
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by alephaleph 4y ago
ooh the concept of combining threading, exceptions and effect handling all into the same primitive language structure is really interesting
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by alephaleph 4y ago
> you can solve algebraic equations or calculus problems just by “pushing around the symbols”. But why can you do that? Where is the meaning, and how do the symbols capture the meaning? How does that work? The fact that symbols in genera
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by alephaleph 4y ago
oof it's probably worse now than it was for me lol, when I used it I don't think they even had an algorithmic feed, just a subscribed and /r/all. and yeah the hivemind stuff is pretty bad. I'm reminded of a talk tha
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by alephaleph 4y ago
yeah, that's fair. I was also in middle school at the time which is probably a bit too young to be using reddit, but I think that it's important to recognize that a social media platform that gives you high level control of the ki
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by alephaleph 4y ago
I kind of disagree about this: maybe it's different if you're more mature but reddit was my first social media platform, I used it a lot in middle school, and in my experience rage bait was a huge problem. Rage bait subreddits bec
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by alephaleph 4y ago
the first social media platform I used was Reddit where you really can choose to be fed thirst traps or rage bait for the next hour by exclusively browsing one or two specific subreddits and I'm not sure I'd say that's much
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by alephaleph 5y ago
Huh, I remember the NDS having a huge library, was Nintendo really having trouble getting people to develop for it?

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