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   by flother 9y ago

   I'm not sure anyone can explain it. Author Aimee Bender: "What a surprise, then, to find that there is a blank page with 'Goodnight nobody' out of nowhere, sharing a spread with 'Goodnight mush.' [...] 'Go
2. 32.▲
   by flother 9y ago

   But no software can help you with the age-old problem of human error (aka PEBCAK): https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jan/31/this-is-over-p...
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   by flother 9y ago

   There are also her essays in the London Review of Books [1] and, as mentioned in the article, her long-running blog for the Times Literary Supplement, A Don's Life [2]. [1]: https://www.lrb.co.uk/contributors/mary-
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   by flother 9y ago

   A common solution is to use LaTeX, but to use it indirectly: write in Markdown and convert to PDF using Pandoc [1], which uses LaTeX in the background. This is (part of) the process used in RMarkdown [2], for example. That way, you get all
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   by flother 9y ago

   > This title is confusing The Economist is famous for using puns in its headlines, and this is a play on a well-known expression (that is itself a pun): https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jam_tomorrow
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   The end of the Awl and the vanishing of freedom and fun from the Internet(newyorker.com)

   4 points by flother 9y ago|1 comments