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by nrr 2y ago
My point is more that TeX is a typesetter just as a Web browser is. They're incompatible typesetting systems with wildly different command languages.
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by nrr 2y ago
"In LaTeX you also clearly separate structure and typesetting ..." Not quite. The rub comes in when you want to pull that content out to render it in a format that isn't meant to be camera-ready, like a Web page or an e-book.
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by nrr 2y ago
"The second biggest issue is that there isn't a good TeX -> HTML compiler." This is the crux of the problem in using just TeX for writing books: it focuses on producing camera-ready output at the expense of literally every
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by nrr 2y ago
This facility is what's called a tandem office in the old long distance telephone network here in the US. The idea was that it formed a link in a routing chain between two end offices when a long-distance call was placed. Cheshire, CT,
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by nrr 2y ago
Gamma rays are an early danger from the fallout from a nuclear blast.
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by nrr 2y ago
I leaned into the "well, what if my own VM/XA" because, uh, VM/CMS has the odd distinction among IBM's operating systems of the era of being both (1) source available and (2) site-assemblable. I've gone through
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by nrr 2y ago
Yeah, I've wondered what the lift would be to backport XA I/O to MVS 3.8j, among other things, but given that it's a pretty pervasive change to the system, I'm not surprised to learn that it's pretty heavy. To your
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by nrr 2y ago
About the only thing that's truly limiting about using such an old release of MVS is the 24-bit addressing and maybe the older pre-XA I/O architecture. Having a simulated 3033 running at 10+ MIPS is pretty nice though. (:
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The Calkin-Wilf Tree(en.wikipedia.org)
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by nrr 2y ago
I'll contest the applicability of the Laffer curve (really, Rolle's lemma for anyone who's taken real analysis) to any public finance model approaching what we actually operate in. Public finance is plainly way, way more invo
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by nrr 2y ago
Yeah, agile is not really prescriptive about much; it's just a way of thinking about how to get a handle on the risk and complexity in delivering a product that your customer will find useful. Unfortunately, Scrum, a major framework th
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by nrr 2y ago
I suppose this is IPC in the loosest possible sense? It's more like GetOpenFileName() and GetSaveFileName() in Win32 but getting handed a HANDLE outright instead of an LPCSTR to pass to CreateFile() later.
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by nrr 2y ago
I find the appeals to authority unconvincing, especially in light of there being other models concerning taxation like modern monetary theory. It leaves yet more confounding variables uncontrolled for and makes policy decisions based on onl
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by nrr 2y ago
Forgive the Scrum-centric view of the world here, but these are some thoughts from having worked on a workload (back before we called them containers) orchestration system this way. "Furthermore, you can’t time box that sort of softwar
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by nrr 2y ago
The irony is that Acorn's RISC OS arguably came the closest to this ideal with any pragmatism. The way that file choosers worked effectively allowed one to pipe a saved file from one application to another and then do it again through
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by nrr 2y ago
Not trivially. There's a lot in how Plan 9 is put together that makes this a monumental effort. (That said, there may have been an X server brought in at some point, but don't quote me on that. That's the least of anyone&#x27
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by nrr 2y ago
That's a pretty recent innovation. Hurricane Katrina was something of a wake up call in terms of claim severity. P&C reinsurers afterward really had to challenge the standards under which they developed their models.
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by nrr 2y ago
What's the product strategy? How's it at odds with what Apple has indicated? The accusatory use of the second person implies that you're in my head enough to know that I'm trying to win an argument. It's patently un
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by nrr 2y ago
For those really wanting to dig into z/Architecture: < https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/module_1678991624569/pdf/SA22-78... > The Wikipedia link has it as its first reference, but it's honestly
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by nrr 2y ago
Did they? It really felt to me like they weren't trying for a moonshot with it: their sales projection of ca. 1M units falls under the single-digit percentage range of their annual revenue. Yeah, they've actually sold less than th
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by nrr 2y ago
"... seek as much rent as possible ..." I think this is sorely understated in the context of understanding Europe's regulatory environment vis-à-vis American big tech companies or targeted advertising-supported (read: persona
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by nrr 2y ago
I'm not sure I follow. The incumbent capital class is driving policy decisions around this. Where's the socialism?
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by nrr 2y ago
Germany's position in context is at least understandable: the Mittelstand is a force to be reckoned with, and that entire segment of Germany's trade system is extremely averse to risk. (It's also a lot of other things, part o
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by nrr 2y ago
It seems you're right. I'm thinking of the third-party APNs (why does Apple insist on the lowercase "s" here?) server providers who do sometimes bill on a per-notification basis. I'll admit that I know basically not
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by nrr 2y ago
I suspect that the cost for push notifications might have to do with the costs imposed by Apple and Google for their respective OSes' notifications backends, but don't quote me on that. The $3.5/user/month smells like a
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by nrr 2y ago
If you're coming by after the fact and scratching your head at what a data diode is, Wikipedia's page on the subject is a decent crib document. < https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unidirectional_network >
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by nrr 2y ago
There are also many of us who have family in the US since the 1860's and still speak (Alemannic) German at home and in the surrounding community. This also goes notwithstanding the indigenous peoples, whose Diné bizaad and Tsalagi, for
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by nrr 2y ago
I am, in fact, not an engineer; I trained to be an actuary. (Though, I guess if one squints enough, the operations research electives look like industrial and systems engineering.) I consider UBI less an engineering exercise with requiremen
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by nrr 2y ago
I'll be honest. You had me in the first half, but then: "... the hypothetical paradise it produces full of wonderful artists and musicians and programmers creating text editors rather than CRUD apps ..." Who willingly endeavo
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by nrr 2y ago
It's my understanding, having done benchmarks on file access on Windows, that NTFS itself is not the problem. It's old, but the revision of the on-disk structure that we use today hails from Windows XP, and it's about on par

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