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by gglitch 1y ago
Don't miss the discussion of McPhee's text editor. I would love to get more details about that. Catnip for this crowd.
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by gglitch 1y ago
Is the empty list also an s-expression? If so, would it not be slightly more correct to define s-expressions as either an atom or a list of zero or more s-expressions?
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by gglitch 1y ago
S-expressions?
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by gglitch 2y ago
Is there any way to buy and own a copy of it?
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Trolls Aren't Like the Rest of Us(theatlantic.com)
25 points by gglitch 2y ago|5 comments
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by gglitch 2y ago
Had the same thought. It’s not that you can’t get an index out of Pandoc, it’s that it’s a bridge just slightly too far unless you’re really committed, and then you have a long road ahead of you.
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by gglitch 2y ago
I really enjoyed Gollum for awhile, but I'm not a Rubyist, and past a certain point, every time I tried to run it or Jekyll I got dependency problems that I'd eventually solve, but without understanding. It was undoubtedly user er
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The Timekeeper of Ukraine(theatlantic.com)
3 points by gglitch 2y ago|1 comments
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How "personhood credentials" could help prove you're a human online(technologyreview.com)
2 points by gglitch 2y ago|4 comments
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by gglitch 3y ago
Like the man said, “If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.”
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by gglitch 3y ago
Maybe it would be more precise to include a field for something like "gravity offset"
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by gglitch 3y ago
Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Spacetime
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by gglitch 3y ago
At some point will ISO-8601 have to be updated to include a field for difference in speed of time?
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by gglitch 3y ago
My understanding is that the purpose of amateur licensing is to facilitate and encourage experimentation and learning, up to and including people building their own hardware; that's why the rules are about how your machine affects th
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by gglitch 3y ago
I spent a year getting maybe 75% of my stuff into a Johnny Decimal filesystem with the remaining maybe 25% firewalled off into an "unsorted" backlog. It's going to be a major pain to do the last 25%, but I can say with some l
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by gglitch 3y ago
Interesting read, thanks for the link. Puzzling how differently people across the political spectrum interpret the concept of "freedom."
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by gglitch 3y ago
Fun project :) Next step: Texinfo, which will output to info, html, and pdf, among others, and which includes links and indexes.
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by gglitch 3y ago
Thank you. Yes. I do too. I had asthma pretty bad as a child, and rate-limiting my air intake, or really in any way trying to ensure that my breathing is meeting some spec, is super stressful for me.
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by gglitch 3y ago
Looks like Pandoc can generate tables of contents for HTML, though I don't see anything about indexes. Roff and friends, and Texinfo, can do both, though with their own tradeoffs. https://pandoc.org/MANUAL.html
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by gglitch 3y ago
I think of this as bottom-up vs top-down learning. I get frustrated working bottom-up one bite at a time; I need a map, I need to know the lay of the land and where I'm going. The older I get, the more I sense that bottom-up learners h
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by gglitch 3y ago
>> makeup tutorials, food ASMR, a woman showing off a huge house cat, and a guy spray-painting his ceiling to look like Iron Man > so the normies finally won. I think I get your general point and I think I agree with it; but I have
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by gglitch 3y ago
I had a Dell netbook that I bought for $400 that got me through grad school. I loved that machine. Emacs and LaTeX all day.
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by gglitch 3y ago
HN? This is a site that is easy to hate on, but there is a fabulous amount of niche knowledge and storytelling buried herein.
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by gglitch 3y ago
Haven't read past Phlebas yet, but as a big Wodehouse fan, can you say more about this?
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by gglitch 3y ago
> Much better to recognise this for what it is than attempt to fix, fight, or rationalise it. This is a morally and emotionally sophisticated position, and though I agree with it, it's a bitter pill.
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by gglitch 3y ago
emacsclient is addressed in another post: https://magnus.therning.org/2023-10-01-how-i-use-emacs.html
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by gglitch 3y ago
I'm no zealot or apologist for the FSF, but on a philosophical level, your alternate expression (and the expression above that you're amending) feel like they both miss the point altogether. I don't think the FSF cares at all
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by gglitch 3y ago
> A day-one surprise when I started full-time at LWN in 2007 was that Emacs was closely intertwined with the site operations (article editing, in particular). So want the details on this.
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by gglitch 3y ago
I don't know about ketchup, but mayonnaise turned out to be far easier to make at home than I anticipated.
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by gglitch 3y ago
Do you shake hands? No one in my life shakes hands anymore. "Hi, how are you," is no more rational, but at least it's more hygienic. As polite social conventions go, I'd call it pretty harmless. Sort of miss the handshak

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