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   by thangalin 7mo ago

   A practical application is pie charts, apologies for the XSLT: * https://repo.autonoma.ca/repo/delibero/blob/HEAD/source/xsl/... * https://repo.autonoma.ca/repo/delibero&#x
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   by thangalin 7mo ago

   > then DANTE would hopefully agree to relicence it. In Feb 2023, when I emailed Hans about changing licenses, he wrote back: > We decided to stick with the GNU (GLP) license. It's not like anyone is going to check in detail what
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   by thangalin 7mo ago

   Yes! Although 60 is still a decade away, I've spent a fair few evenings vibe-coding a FOSS dependency-free raw git repo browser.[1] Never would have even started such a project without LLMs because: * Implementing a raw Git reader is d
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   by thangalin 7mo ago

   > it is much easier to write a transpiler for Pascal->C than to rewrite TeX. Asking an LLM to rewrite it in the language-du-jour ... I thought that the combination of the Pascal and Java versions[1] of TeX would be sufficient guidance
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   by thangalin 7mo ago

   ConTeXt often goes unmentioned in TeX threads. https://wiki.contextgarden.net/ It's a monolithic kernel with a relatively sane collection of "setup" macros that, by and large, can accomplish much of what LaTe
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   by thangalin 7mo ago

   Translate an alternative? https://github.com/albfernandez/juniversalchardet
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   by thangalin 7mo ago

   The first life-like sketch of an amniote shows a critter chasing a dragonfly. Sir William Dawson's diorama from "Air Breathers of the Coal Period" (1863), is based largely on the fossil record at Joggins, Nova Scotia, and is
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   Show HN: TreeTrek(repo.autonoma.ca)

   2 points by thangalin 8mo ago|0 comments
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   by thangalin 8mo ago

   I replaced all my thermostats for both of my homes with Sinopé products. Here's the hardware, software, and setup: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45145220
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    by thangalin 8mo ago

    > Email is an open, federated protocol. Anyone can run a mail server. In practice, running your own mail server is painful. Wizards can be difficult to develop and maintain. Writing a working, useful, functional, robust, informative, env
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    by thangalin 8mo ago

    The history of how we go from a loom ca. 1725 to 80x25 terminals ca. 2026 is fascinating. It's been written up many times, here's my take: https://dave.autonoma.ca/blog/2019/06/06/web-of-knowled
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    by thangalin 8mo ago

    > An alternative is self-hosting by running a Kroki container. Exactly, which is why KeenWrite has a "Diagram server" setting: https://i.ibb.co/LXxm33cb/diagram-server.png > they're just for differ
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    by thangalin 8mo ago

    While Mermaid gets the limelight, Kroki[1] offers: BlockDiag, BPMN, Bytefield, SeqDiag, ActDiag, NwDiag, PacketDiag, RackDiag, C4 with PlantUML, D2, DBML, Ditaa, Erd, Excalidraw, GraphViz, Nomnoml, Pikchr, PlantUML, Structurizr, Svgbob, Sym
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    by thangalin 8mo ago

    > I've got nothing to hide. Some retorts for people swayed by that argument: "Can we put a camera in your bathroom?" "Let's send your mom all your text messages." "Ain't nothin' in my pockets,
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    by thangalin 9mo ago

    > that's about it. Avid cyclist here. * Extreme Weather: Severe heat, heavy snow, or torrential rain can make biking unsafe or impractical without specialized gear and high physical endurance. * Accessibility & Mobility Issues:
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    by thangalin 9mo ago

    For my hard sci-fi novel, I wanted people to give me feedback by annotating the PDF directly. Since I didn't know what local PDF editors they had available, I decided to vibe-code a web-based PDF annotation editor using PDF.js. (Yes, m
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    by thangalin 9mo ago

    > Scandinavian cabins, despite lacking modern insulation, maintain warmth in sub-zero temperatures. This video explores centuries-old building techniques, comparing their performance against modern homes. Discover the surprising physics
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    Ask HN: Variable Trace

    1 points by thangalin 9mo ago|0 comments
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    by thangalin 9mo ago

    > What it can't do (as far as I understand): complex layouts, precise typography, embedded binary content, anything that needs pixel-perfect rendering. Please see: * https://impacts.to/downloads/lowres/impa
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    by thangalin 9mo ago

    > Although it sucks that markdown is not standardized Does CommonMark count? https://spec.commonmark.org/
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    by thangalin 9mo ago

    I've posted my feature matrix elsewhere in this thread: https://keenwrite.com/blog/2025/09/08/feature-matrix/ The matrix, which you can download, aims to provide an objective comparison. Any id
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    by thangalin 9mo ago

    Can you quantify "much better"? I compiled a set of over 70 features offered by a variety of plain text formats: https://keenwrite.com/blog/2025/09/08/feature-matrix/ Are many features mis
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    by thangalin 9mo ago

    > For example while docbook may have some technical https://keenwrite.com/blog/2025/09/08/feature-matrix/ I wrote the feature matrix to objectively compare plain text-based documentation formats.
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    by thangalin 9mo ago

    My brief, illustrated history of Microbial Mats (p.10) to Multicellular Eukaryotes (p.13) may be of interest: https://impacts.to/downloads/lowres/impacts.pdf
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    by thangalin 9mo ago

    Standard Ebooks produces exceptional quality documents. Here's my comparison against similar projects: https://dave.autonoma.ca/blog/2020/04/11/project-gutenberg-p...
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    by thangalin 9mo ago

    > started in a reasonable amount of time A hasty generalization with a little confirmation bias, perhaps? $ time keenwrite.bin --version KeenWrite version 3.6.5 Copyright 2016-2025 White Magic Software, Ltd. user 0m0.3
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    by thangalin 9mo ago

    > There is no way to get your jar + the vm into a binary. My text editor, KeenWrite[1], offered binaries for Linux, macOS, and Windows. The Windows binary was axed due code signing costs and requiring third-party builds, rather than any
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    by thangalin 9mo ago

    > I think it’s little appreciated that high CO2 levels cause cognitive impairment Have you been telling representatives? Here's a letter I wrote to mine: https://pdfhost.io/v/bRJEGptatL_climate-change
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    by thangalin 10mo ago

    > I haven't seen any redaction system yet that protects against this. The linked article suggests widening redacted areas more than needed with some randomization applied to the width. Strikes me that that wouldn't do much exce
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    by thangalin 10mo ago

    https://www.argeliuslabs.com/deep-research-on-pdf-redaction-... > Information Leaking from Redaction Marks: Even when content is properly removed, the redaction marks themselves can leak some information if not done care