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Ah, thanks! Found an English translation [0] which has the story on pp 48–49 (PDF pages 98–99). [0] http://www.vsnrweb-publications.org.uk/Text%20Series/IslKr.p...
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I can’t find that story in this translation: https://sagadb.org/brennu-njals_saga.en
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Yes, this is pretty normal for a basaltic volcano such as this one [0]. This is also what happened on Mauna Loa recently [1]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fissure_vent [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/
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They also space out question marks, exclamation marks and colons, which is standard in French but not in English.
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What photos? There’s two images in the link, but both look like 3D renders to me. (Especially the second.)
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The issue is that ‘any organic residue’ includes any food you might happen to put on it afterwards, if any trace of the solution is left. Or, for that matter, it includes your entire body. This is an exceedingly bad idea unless you enjoy yo
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I actually don’t use it all that often, but it certainly is great to have when needed! I have considered putting the code online once or twice, but the setup is convoluted enough that documenting it probably would be a pain. (It consists of
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Most of my programs were written for my own use, including: • A keyboard layout to type numerous non-English letters, punctuation marks and mathematical symbols, originally for Windows but subsequently ported to Linux and Mac [ https:/
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This headline feels slightly misleading to me. As far as I can tell, this research shows that sperm whale clicks have spectral properties which are analogous in some ways to human vowels . In particular, they exhibit formants (essentially,
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There’s also https://reanimate.github.io/ , which is the same thing for Haskell.
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> FP could probably have had a lot more success if it didn't clamour on about pure functions so much Note that there are many functional languages which don’t care about purity at all: for instance, Scheme, OCaml, SML and Elixir. I
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For relative interval training I also know of [0], which works pretty well. The other music theory tools on that website are pretty cool too! [0] https://offtonic.com/theory/applets/intervaleartrainer.html (NB on
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Yes, it does. In general LuaTeX supports everything that XeTeX does.
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It works fine with LuaTeX, in my experience. (And the document does make it clear: see Table 1, on page 6.)
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From the images I’m guessing Qt, so not truly native.
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As a Jew, please let me note: these people are extremists. They are not representative of the majority of supporters of Israel around the world. They are not representative of the viewpoints of many Jews. And even in Israel their views are
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Apologies for the pedantic complaint, but tenets are not the same as tenants !
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It looks like there’s a little information here: https://docs.inko-lang.org/manual/latest/internals/compiler/...
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I do research on oceanic lidar. The basic problem is that light is absorbed and scattered by water, to a far greater extent than it is by air. Thus, even though we have no problem seeing through hundreds of kilometres of air, even a kilomet
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> This aside, I want typed elixir. It’s happening: https://elixir-lang.org/blog/2023/06/22/type-system-updates-...
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The takeaway is: LK-99 is definitely not a superconductor. The apparent observation of zero resistance can be explained due to a well-known phase transition of copper sulfide, combined with sloppy data analysis. The half-levitation seen in
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by bradrn 3y ago
The (really amazing) 3D sculpture in this post appears to come from this paper, which also shows several others: https://naml.us/paper/irving_segerman2012_fractal.pdf
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After seeing the video, the closest I can get is: ‘it’s like a Smalltalk equivalent of Emacs org-mode, but even more dynamic’. Which makes sense as an analogy: org-mode is also famously hard to explain, and adding more dynamism just makes
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Surely it dates back even further, to APL?
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A Jewish prayerbook (or siddur ) is basically (2) — giving the text of the prayers to read for the daily services and other events. However, my understanding is that this note doesn’t form part of the prayers themselves, but merely happene
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I made my own crossplatform multilingual layout [0]. Although it’s based on QWERTY, it shouldn’t be hard to remap the Linux and Mac versions to any other base layout, since they’re autogenerated from the Windows version. [0] https:/&#
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There’s also [0], which has the same functionality (click the >> icon). [0] https://ctext.org/dao-de-jing
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If we’re critiquing the title, let me also link this excellent series: https://acoup.blog/2020/01/17/collections-the-fremen-mirage-...
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> The UI is very unified by alien conventions. I’ve heard of some of the other stuff before, but I’d be very interested in hearing more about how this works!
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Agreed. SumatraPDF is still one of my favourite programs, and I wish there was a Linux PDF reader which approached it. (Okular is probably the best, but it can’t remember opened tabs.)

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