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by nanna 3y ago
Free iredmail makes updating extremely labourious. You have to manually update every package to each version step by step. It's a nightmare which is why the paid for version exists. I'm not opposed to paying but beware what you ge
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by nanna 3y ago
Nothing new! The rotary phone was the very first interactive computer input device. Alexander S. Douglas programmed the EDSAC to play tic-tac-toe back in 1952 with a rotary phone for its input and a Williams Tube hacked for a display. http
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by nanna 3y ago
Back in 2003 you could pick up original Banksy screenprints and his first two zines for a few quid from a grumpy old man at the London Anarchist Bookfair. Banksy wasn't the superstar then that he became and I must confess I gave away t
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How blogging is different from tweeting(markcarrigan.net)
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Fascinating that Kay describes Ivan Sutherland as the inventor of OOP with his Sketchpad. Not only the inventor of computer graphics, but OOP, both in an MA thesis . No wonder Licklider handed the guy the keys to the Information Processing
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Alan Kay: Doing with Images Makes Symbols (1987) [video](archive.org)
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I know this is Nature but it's a shame all five came from STEM backgrounds where it's relatively easy to imagine meaningful transitions out of academia. For those of us in most humanities disciplines (ie I don't mean anthropo
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Would this or Fennel allow one to write lispy code in LuaLaTeX, theoretically at least?
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TimelineJS(timeline.knightlab.com)
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I was about to say no it's not like Pidgin because Pidgin doesn't support Whatsapp, Signal, Twitter, etc, but... apparently it does? Anyone know how well this works? https://pidgin.im/plugins/?publisher=all&am
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by nanna 3y ago
URL should be changed to source [1] and title changed to reflect that the UK govt is also surveilling TAs, not only. [1] https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/oct/21/uk-governme...
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by nanna 3y ago
More on creating your own class file: https://www.overleaf.com/learn/latex/Writing_your_own_packag... How I do it... I keep a directory called LaTeX inside my home directory. Inside that I keep a file with all my
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No way!?
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I don't get the problem. If 99% of your documents need the same packages and formatting, then all you need to do in LaTeX is create a template (eg via Yasnippet in Emacs) or dump it all in a LaTeX class file and then import it in your
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by nanna 3y ago
Did you read to the end of the post?
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About time! For years I would try to visit the Whole Earth website and be met with a barrage of PHP errors. How could a magazine which was so formative for the likes of Steve Jobs be so broke that they couldn't put their archive online
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Peter Norvig: Python for Lisp Programmers (2000)(norvig.com)
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Common Lisp: An Interactive Approach (1992)(cse.buffalo.edu)
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PostScript Fractals(pvv.ntnu.no)
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This is definitely why I hate git. It really is possible to lose your work by doing a a bad reset (and really the vocabulary of hard, soft and mixed resets is a blatant cop out from coming up with meaningful terms). Or by checking out anoth
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by nanna 3y ago
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18702178
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Implementing Common Lisp with LLVM [video] (2018)(youtube.com)
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I prefer mapping Caps Lock to Hyper, for an extra Emacs modifier.
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The only problem with my Fairphone 3 being 4 years old and counting, having survived dozens of drops without a scratch and receiving updates to Android 11 is that I have to hold restrain my consumerist desire to buy a newer gen Fairphone wi
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Wikibooks Shelf:Computer Programming(en.wikibooks.org)
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Spinneret: A modern Common Lisp HTML generator(github.com)
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Wholeheartedly agree with the author but don't think he's radical enough about solutions. Thumb-key takes a radical approach, and I've watched someone who has become comptetent at it (which i haven't) type elegantly on i
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by nanna 3y ago
I've tried to get into Gopher and Gemini several times but I just couldn't for the life of me find anything I actually wanted to read.
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German Jewish academics were expelled en masse because of antisemitic Nazi racial laws... not metrics regarding their academic credentials.
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Publish quality or academia perishes

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