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by susam 2y ago
> Attempting to take the car or cdr of nil causes (or should cause) the Lisp genie to cough out an error message, just as attempting to divide by zero should evoke an error message. Interestingly, this is no longer the case. Modern Li
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Set Builder Notation: Colon or Vertical Line (2015)(math.stackexchange.com)
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HTML-CSS vs. CommonHTML in MathJax (2017)(groups.google.com)
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by susam 2y ago
This is correct. In fact there is a highly upvoted question about it on TeX Stack Exchange: < https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/1863 >. See also < https://latex.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=25156
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by susam 2y ago
> emacs is not its keybindings ... and it wasn't necessary to rewrite Emacs That's indeed true! But the premise of this question explores the scenario: What if we did rewrite Emacs from scratch?
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by susam 2y ago
I know many people like to remap Caps Lock to function as Ctrl. However that setup does not quite work for me. There is only one Caps Lock key on the left side of the keyboard. I need Ctrl on both sides of the keyboard, so that I can use
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by susam 2y ago
Instead of using ctrl and meta modifiers, use a leader key like escape or semicolon or comma or some such thing as the prefix key for key bindings. In fact, this desire for leader-key-based, non-modal text editing led me to write devil-mode
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Are MathJax and KaTeX competitors? (2020)(groups.google.com)
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by susam 2y ago
I haven’t kept track of how much traffic it brings to the whole website but I have some data about how much traffic it brings to the particular page that is trending on the HN front page: https://susam.net/from-web-feed-to-1
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IRC Mathematics Seminars (2010)(freenode-math.fandom.com)
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by susam 2y ago
The Libera IRC ##math community [1] has been around for over 29 years now! Originally based on the Freenode network, the community migrated to Libera in May 2021 following a controversial shift in Freenode's management. This community
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by susam 2y ago
We have a little IRC/Matrix-based computer science and mathematics discussion community called Bitwise. The connection links are: * https://web.libera.chat/#bitwise (i.e., #bitwise on irc.libera.chat) * https:/&
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by susam 2y ago
> ... I don't know what pjmlp means by "Lisp-2", which I normally interpret as meaning a Lisp with different namespaces for functions and variables ... There indeed was a language named LISP 2 : https://dl.acm.
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by susam 2y ago
> The sentence “Let x⋆ be the solution to the optimization problem” implicitly asserts that the solution is unique. If the solution is not unique or need not be unique, write, “Let x⋆ be a solution to the optimization problem.” I know th
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Saying Goodbye to Firebug (2017)(hacks.mozilla.org)
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by susam 2y ago
While not as impressive, I have a small set of fun pages here: https://susam.net/links.html#fun These are tiny hobby projects I've developed in the limited spare time I get. They serve as creative outlet and keep aliv
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by susam 2y ago
The original discussion is here: https://groups.google.com/g/comp.lang.lisp/c/T_Tozq2P53I/m/N... I found it intriguing that the original post there claims that (cons (list 1 2) (list 3 4)) in
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The geometry package (LaTeX) [pdf](ctan.net)
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The 14 BibTeX Entry Types(bibtex.com)
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Saying Goodbye to Firebug (2017)(hacks.mozilla.org)
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Trading Hours for Retailers: The Law(gov.uk)
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The Lisp 2 Programming Language and System (1966) [pdf](dl.acm.org)
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Differences Between Scheme and Common Lisp(dept-info.labri.fr)
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Why did reporters for years end their stories by writing "-30-"? (2007)(ajrarchive.org)
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The missing mass – What is causing a geoid low in the Indian Ocean? (2017)(blogs.agu.org)
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by susam 2y ago
Not at all similar to the one in this "Show HN" post but related: London 2023 countdown: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2FcDNi1HkfI&t=49s London 2024 countdown: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v
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WebTV and Internet Relay Chat (2000)(irchelp.org)
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Trees in the City (2023)(edinburgh.gov.uk)
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The Crowther and Woods 'Colossal Cave Adventure' game: Here's where it all began(rickadams.org)
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Sleep duration, chronotype, health and lifestyle factors affect cognition [pdf](bmjpublichealth.bmj.com)
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