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by everybodyknows 5mo ago
> syntax highlighter This was critical for me, but I didn't see an easy way for Markdown to bring it to my Linux+Emacs home, so I went with Org-mode. Custom Go code parses the Org-mode syntax into HTML, WeasyPrint turns that into pa
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by everybodyknows 5mo ago
WeasyPrint as a project is very much alive on Github. Filing a bug there might get your problem solved.
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Web site built for the petition campaign: https://ucstudentsuccess.org/ Direct link to its FAQ page: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1dxdfw0gIE2UW9k5cqtf6FVMaclI... And here's the slick 50-pa
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by everybodyknows 5mo ago
> some institutional sucker will buy the company What sort of institutions would try to take on operating such a business? And when does word get around, and the pool of suckers dry up?
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by everybodyknows 5mo ago
> ... markdown to HTML to PDF/X-1a processor using Python, WeasyPrint, and ghostscript. I've been converting HTML to PDF by running WeasyPrint (latest version) with options I hoped were sufficient to satisfy the X-1a rules -- c
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by everybodyknows 5mo ago
> A downside to this technique is that there's no guarantee that every commit will compile, which might be a dealbreaker. To some of us, that's an essential structural criterion. Passing unit-level self-tests may be as well.
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by everybodyknows 5mo ago
2023.
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"Antarctica" – Fiction; the Yale Review(yalereview.org)
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by everybodyknows 5mo ago
How does enforcement work? The article does not say.
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HTML editions from the two sites contrast interestingly: https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/1513/pg1513-images.html https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/william-shakespeare/romeo-...
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by everybodyknows 5mo ago
You can contribute to Standard Ebooks by finding OCR errors, then pushing your fixes to https://github.com/standardebooks
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by everybodyknows 5mo ago
Better machining on a Phillips tip really does help.
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by everybodyknows 5mo ago
> Festool CT ... vacuum I use one of these for household floors: quiet, powerful, rolls easily.
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The only full colons are in the headings, and there are no semicolons whatsoever. For embedding a large volume of factual info in prose, these are irreplaceable.
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by everybodyknows 5mo ago
Did Slashdot reveal your identity to those whom you had "foe'd"? That's where the real-life trouble can start.
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by everybodyknows 6mo ago
> The extension adds a tagging system on top of Firefox's bookmark data But FF already has its own tagging system. How are the two coordinated?
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Ask HN: Cryptic refusals of credit cards with Firefox?
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https://github.com/TheoKVA/ascii-box-editor A visual editor of UTF-8 BOX DRAWING characters, contrary to "ascii" in the name. No server, no installation: browser-side Javascript only.
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by everybodyknows 6mo ago
Is there a CLI way to dump/restore those settings?
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Gtk-3
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by everybodyknows 6mo ago
> worst Canonicalisms Do the Mint team treat fixing the other half of the problem, the GNOMEisms, as out-of-scope? Asking because I maintain my own pile of gsettings and .gtkrc tweaks as mitigations yet pain points remain, apparently unf
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by everybodyknows 6mo ago
What's the state of Cinnamon maintenance? Keeping up with underlying platform changes being the perpetual challenge...
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by everybodyknows 6mo ago
> ... rewrites any descendent branches to point at the updated history. But what about local heads referred to only by a "soft" tag? Is their history rewritten, or is it left to refer to the old history?
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by everybodyknows 6mo ago
Publishers sell directly -- haven't tried it myself. Anyone? https://www.simonandschuster.com/ https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/
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2024
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The Internet's Most Powerful Archiving Tool Is in Peril(wired.com)
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by everybodyknows 6mo ago
> liquid market USO -- net assets over $2B, tradable by anyone with a brokerage account: https://www.uscfinvestments.com/uso
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by everybodyknows 6mo ago
I can't see any significant difference between their "Operations Log": https://docs.gitbutler.com/cli-guides/cli-tutorial/operation... and git's reflog : https://git-scm.com/do
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by everybodyknows 6mo ago
Trying to bring my nose for AI up to standard -- care to share what you're smelling? For me it's: - Short, declarative sentences, stating grandiose yet vague claims, in a high school vocabulary: "Taste becomes useful when it
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by everybodyknows 7mo ago
Meeks' blog post, for comparison: https://www.collaboraonline.com/blog/tdf-ejects-its-core-dev... Note the references to legal issues; draw your own conclusions.

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