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by pgtan 7y ago
my fvwm "desktop" consists for years only of FvwmPager, rclock, and multiple xload running on different machines.
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by pgtan 7y ago
One BIG thing missing: xteddy! It was xteddy shown in parallel on multiple HP 9000 screens in the early 90ies, which sparked my love for UNIX. http://weber.itn.liu.se/~stegu/xteddy/ see also https://xte
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by pgtan 7y ago
Or you can rediscover LOGO, which is LISP to the bones: ? show (map [[x y] [output se :x sum :y #]] [a b c] [10 20 30]) [[a 11] [b 22] [c 33]]
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by pgtan 7y ago
who doesn't?
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by pgtan 7y ago
Page 10/11: -94.7351 etc. is so wrong, my eyes are bleeding! Should be typeset in math mode like $-94.7351$ (or whole column in math) to get at least the minus sign right.
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by pgtan 7y ago
fvwm with FvwmPager: best "desktop" forever!
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by pgtan 7y ago
MetaPost is so underrated. Glad, this project shows the strength of the language.
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by pgtan 7y ago
Speaking of, I'm wondering about the down of LOGO? When and why LOGO went unpopular?
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by pgtan 7y ago
Sadly, he don't understand what LaTeX is and what TeX is. And $$ is a TeX macro, should not be used in LaTeX, the are much better math display environments.
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by pgtan 8y ago
> Microsoft is really big on typography, you mean that big: http://www.unics.uni-hannover.de/nhtcapri/quotation-marks.ht... not even able to provide correct quotation marks!
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by pgtan 8y ago
Please stop!
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by pgtan 8y ago
Out of curiosity I went to Elsevier and looked at random article from an economic journal (open access): https://ac.els-cdn.com/S1303070118300945/1-s2.0-S13030701183... The 3B2 PDF looks much better than a Word file an
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by pgtan 8y ago
Typesetting, proofreading, copy editing, indexing, graphics editing etc. come in mind. Just look at random "not so well formed" Word file like for example: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1902.07133.pdf Not commenting
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by pgtan 8y ago
systemd broke UNIX. Everything that worked before, now is a mine field. Last week I had a SLES virtual machine refusing to boot, no network, just emergency shell. The reason was a forgotten line in fstab (without nofail option of course), s
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by pgtan 8y ago
There was a lecture on the long science night fest here about the Gömböc.¹ A very interesting observation accompanying the idea of the Gömböc is, that the number of stable and unstable equilibrium points decreases, the more a stone travels
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AIX Event Monitoring Pseudo Filesystem (2011)(ibm.com)
1 points by pgtan 8y ago|0 comments
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by pgtan 8y ago
alias lcoate=locate alias ll="ls -l" alias ..="cd .." alias ...="cd ../.." alias mdd='mkdir $(date -I)' alias cdd='cd $(date -I)' alias xt="xtermset -T " alias dtail="dme
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by pgtan 8y ago
Not even a single Снегурочка on this cards? No concept of women in the bright space future!?
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by pgtan 8y ago
There is a paper by Josef Rukavicka called "Dickson's Method for Generating Pythagorean Triples Revisited"[1]. It is a very nice proof without words. Based on it, the Project Euler solution was almost an oneliner in Prolog. [
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by pgtan 8y ago
My explanation is, the escalators and elevators are the "little socialism" for the people: they provide free service and in order to consume it fully, nobody moves. I have friends running marathons but still using elevators when o
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by pgtan 8y ago
Not exactly my observations, to put it politely, here in East Germany, Leipzig.
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by pgtan 8y ago
“Walking on escalators may lead to accidents caused by collisions or luggage.” I'm sensing zero-risk bias, typical for modern western societies. For me, there is absolutely no reason to stand on the escalator, unless handicapped of cou
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by pgtan 8y ago
Yeah, well, for you maybe this is a flamewar, for me it's my life.
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by pgtan 8y ago
Wonder, how everyone forget BibTeX, the (stack based) language for formating bibligraphy databases: http://vesta.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/ftp/pub/mirror/ctan/b...
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by pgtan 8y ago
recently enjoyed https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkfDYOZ1p4Y
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by pgtan 8y ago
After watching "Stranger Things" with my son, we play now Spot-The-Benguiat-Font everywhere.
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by pgtan 8y ago
A bunch of xterm active icons on a purist fvwm look just that impressive +ai This option enables active icon support if that feature was compiled into xterm. This is equivalent to setting the vt100 resource activeIcon to "true&quo
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by pgtan 8y ago
> It can work out well and it can fail. No, it will fail, as every German project of this kind failed. Someone will get rich, the project will close after some years. The overrated Germany is socialism 2.0.
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by pgtan 8y ago
I went from logic puzzles to Prolog and the CLPFD lib was a great help to achieve results even as novice.
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Dc embedded in a webpage and accessible via telnet(pr0.uk)
4 points by pgtan 8y ago|0 comments

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