dhosek

13 ms·

301.
by dhosek 6mo ago
The article, sadly, gives an example that completely messes up the example of LaTeX’s input formatting (sigh). I think the problem with a lot of would-be LaTeX successors is that they tend to miss two key things: 1. The document markup lang
302.
by dhosek 6mo ago
You just reminded me of reading a free ebook of Burton’s translation of The Arabian Nights and getting frustrated by “cloth” being used as a verb and not being able to figure out its meaning until I got frustrated and gave up on the exper
303.
by dhosek 6mo ago
Why did Turkey become Türkiye? I think mostly because they asked. I’m guessing that Japan/Nippon is enjoying the fact that English speakers use the Chinese name for Japan and the Sanskrit¹ name for China. It’s much like the Czech Repub
304.
by dhosek 6mo ago
Or you could put it in a box with no connection to the internet. Introducing… The Hooli Box!
305.
by dhosek 6mo ago
It’s because the capitalist class has successfully persuaded the proletariat that they shouldn’t join a union. The US has been very successful at concentrating created wealth into a small number of people.
306.
by dhosek 6mo ago
Here’s an image of a typical rack: https://www.sportworks.com/product/apexplus-3
307.
by dhosek 6mo ago
Many US buses have a bike rack on the front that can hold 2 or 3 bikes which allows for easy bike-bus travel. I don’t think bringing the bike inside the bus is an option anywhere.
308.
by dhosek 6mo ago
Chicago started allowing them on the “L” about a decade or so ago, although with limitations during rush hour. But the fact that boarding the “L” usually requires stairs at both ends of the trip makes it less appealing. Likewise, Metra, the
309.
by dhosek 6mo ago
When I was at nerd school in the 80s. This was a super-popular intracampus (and occasionally extracampus) transportation option. I never managed to learn myself.
310.
by dhosek 6mo ago
So long and thanks for all the fish, perhaps.
311.
by dhosek 6mo ago
*wush
312.
by dhosek 6mo ago
On the other hand, given the regime’s desire to keep internal communications secret, maybe the causality does stem from the bet.
313.
by dhosek 6mo ago
I’ve been looking at a potential move to another country (which is momentarily looking like it will happen this year). Because I prioritize things badly, I went through my list of books to check out from the library and searched the catalog
314.
by dhosek 6mo ago
I found the coloring in most of the examples to be more distracting than helpful. I can see cases where it could be helpful (e.g., highlighting bytes in the 0x20–0x7E range for spotting ASCII strings, or a fancier one that can identify UTF-
315.
by dhosek 6mo ago
Vaguely related, there’s been a trend (thanks to submittable making it easy to add charges to submissions), of some publications offering editor feedback for an additional charge. Aside from my general policy of never paying submission fees
316.
by dhosek 6mo ago
The one great stadium experience I had was seeing Billy Joel on his River of Dreams tour. I had seats behind the stage about six rows back. Billy Joel did about half the show with his piano lifted up in place of the drums and Liberty Devitt
317.
by dhosek 6mo ago
Heck even if that’s pre-tariff it’s cheap enough that it could be an impulse buy.
318.
by dhosek 6mo ago
If we can get balcony solar in the US that will be a huge game changer.
319.
by dhosek 6mo ago
100W 18V for $37 and change.
320.
by dhosek 6mo ago
It should be roughly correlated with latitude (the exceptions being panels on sloped roofs which will match the roof slope).
321.
by dhosek 6mo ago
It really depends. If there’s a promoter involved, they will give the band a guaranteed paycheck and collect the door for themselves. This is a big part of why merch sales are so important for touring groups. This is where they make most of
322.
by dhosek 6mo ago
I’ve avoided arena shows for decades because they’re usually super-expensive and a less satisfying experience. Back in the 90s when I made a comment in the Discipline Global Mobile website about deciding I didn’t want to see a show in a ven
323.
by dhosek 6mo ago
Even without BTT, I liked the touchbar (especially on the Macbook “Esc” which restored the escape key). It was nice having keys that actually said what they did. Maybe someday, keycaps with an LCD-generated display will be feasible (or mayb
324.
by dhosek 6mo ago
SCUBA gear, obviously.
325.
by dhosek 6mo ago
Quotes from two bits of entertainment come to mind: Monty Python Cheese Shop sketch: C: Paper Cramer, O: no C: Danish Bimbo, O: no C: Czech sheep’s milk, O: no C: Venezuelan Beaver Cheese? O: Not today, sir, no. And Meet the Parents : Greg
326.
by dhosek 6mo ago
Yeah, that was the secret sauce that left me a bit confused
327.
by dhosek 6mo ago
One advantage of more smaller files is that merge conflicts become less common. I would guess that at least half of the trivial merge conflicts I see are two unrelated commits which both add some header or other definition at the top of the
328.
by dhosek 6mo ago
Of course for maximum confusion, there’s Gen X me, making this reference to my Gen Alpha kids who have absolutely no idea what I’m talking about. I’m still waiting for the moment in the ice cream shop when I can ask them, “sugar or plain?”
329.
by dhosek 6mo ago
Back when I lived in Orange County (and didn’t know how to pronounce phở), I used to joke about creating a restaurant that served phở made with Italian noodles and calling it Faux Phở.
330.
by dhosek 6mo ago
One of the comments: > Us, ten years after generating the certificate: "Who could have possibly foreseen that a computer science department would still be here ten years later." This was why there was a Y2K bug. Most of that co

More ›