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by thangalin 10mo ago
Use events instead of repetitious logging calls. https://dave.autonoma.ca/blog/2022/01/08/logging-code-smell/
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by thangalin 10mo ago
In tough job markets, submitting 100 résumés before getting hired is not uncommon. Of possible interest is my Creating Catchy Cover Letters blog post, which uses my Markdown editor, KeenWrite ( https://keenwrite.com ), to create P
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by thangalin 10mo ago
https://autonoma.ca/model.png By wholly automating food distribution, from seed to delivery, we eliminate the costs of high-quality, nutritious food, relying on volunteers for infrequent system maintenance. (This requires b
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by thangalin 10mo ago
I'd go one step further: The problem is that we cannot build a fair and equitable socioeconomic capitalistic-driven society. Rather than complain about capitalism, I've written a near-future hard sci-fi novel that proposes and exp
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by thangalin 10mo ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KEHCCsFFIuY Star Size Comparison 3, simply a stunning visualization.
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by thangalin 10mo ago
> pneumatic tubes or underground trains Brilliant. See Tom Scott's video about Vancouver's Rabbit Line. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMTZvA8iFgI Speaking of Vancouver and trains, the Broadway Subway Project
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by thangalin 10mo ago
> My biggest gripe with static site generators in general is that for some reason they require the author to write their pages in something other than plain HTML. Being the author of KeenWrite, a Markdown editor that uses YAML variables
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by thangalin 10mo ago
Neato's D-Series Botvac just works (e.g., BVD8-SD/HP). No Bluetooth. No cloud. No Wi-Fi. Zero network connectivity required. Had mine about 10 years. Replaced the battery once, probably due for another one. Still cleans well. I do
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by thangalin 10mo ago
Add this one to your pile: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KEHCCsFFIuY
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by thangalin 11mo ago
At Voyager 1's velocity, it would take ~456 million years to reach the heart of the Milky Way (Sagittarius A*), some ~26,000 light-years away. That's roughly the same amount of time that has passed since the Ordovician–Silurian ex
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by thangalin 11mo ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KEHCCsFFIuY Try that to give him a sense of awe. Watch it on a big screen, all the way to the end.
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by thangalin 11mo ago
I developed my Markdown editor, KeenWrite[0], to replace the shell scripts described in the Typesetting Markdown series[1]. KeenWrite takes in YAML document metadata (for variables), (R) Markdown documents, and generates XHTML. The XHTML is
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by thangalin 11mo ago
For Firefox + uBlock origin users having troubles viewing YouTube, please see my previous comment for filters that may help with playback issues: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44332976
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by thangalin 11mo ago
> Ideally you would of course separate the two into separate files (template + content). Exactly: If instructions for how to style the content are in the same file as the content, then that is mixing content _with_ presentation logic. Av
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by thangalin 11mo ago
#show strong: set text(fill: blue) Join us for a David Lynch double feature with *Mulholland Drive* and *Inland Empire* next Tuesday at 8:15 PM. I didn't realize Typst mixes content and presentation. Presumab
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by thangalin 11mo ago
The main protagonist in my novel experiences synethesia. She talks about numbers having colours. To help ensure consistency throughout the novel, I developed a text editor (KeenWrite) that allows me to refer to externally defined variables
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by thangalin 11mo ago
Tips: # Avoid issues when wine is installed. sudo su -c 'echo 0 > /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc/status' And: # Capture the entirety of the instructions to obtain the input length. read
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by thangalin 11mo ago
A change introduced to Java (JDK-8343006[1]) prevented KeenWrite from displaying SVG files, and has been logged as a bug (JDK-8368902[2]). Side-stepping the gory details, the library KeenWrite uses to render SVG files (EchoSVG[3]) released
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by thangalin 1y ago
Rock tumbler enclosure, soundproofing box.
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Creating Catchy Cover Letters(keenwrite.com)
3 points by thangalin 1y ago|0 comments
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by thangalin 1y ago
XHTML is XML. XML-based markup for content can be typeset into PDF, suitable for print media. I invite you to check out the PDFs listed in the intro to my feature matrix comparison page, all being sourced from XHTML: https://keen
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by thangalin 1y ago
> How does one define the moment of formation? We don't. It's usually within a range. My illustrated book shows the timeline with more context and detail. Note that the events are provided on a timeline with some uncertainty (e
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by thangalin 1y ago
* Location: Vancouver, BC, Canada * Remote: Yes * Willing to relocate: No * Technologies: bash, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, PHP, PL/SQL, Python, R, SQL, XSLT, CLion, Eclipse, IDEA, JDeveloper, NetBeans, Rider, ConTEXt, HTML/CSS,
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by thangalin 1y ago
Is this an xy problem? If you have the original document (in Markdown), one possibility would be to use my software, KeenWrite[1], to convert Markdown to XHTML then typeset XHTML to PDF via ConTeXt. See the user manual[2] for an example of
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1. Nancy Leveson's Therac-25 investigation and review. * An Investigation of the Therac-25 Accidents https://cse.msu.edu/~cse470/Public/Handouts/Therac/Therac_1.... * The Therac-25: 30 Years Later
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by thangalin 1y ago
> Do you update regularly? Sometimes once a month, sometimes once a week, sometimes more if there's a critical CVE.
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by thangalin 1y ago
> Arch is one of the most horrible rolling distros We've had different experiences. I've been using Arch for about 8 years and have had to scour the forums no more than thrice to find the magic incantations to fix a broken pack
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Show HN: KeenWrite 3.6.3(keenwrite.com)
3 points by thangalin 1y ago|0 comments
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Text Format Feature Matrix(keenwrite.com)
2 points by thangalin 1y ago|1 comments
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by thangalin 1y ago
I've created several PDF documents written in plain text (CommonMark plus pandoc-compatible extensions) that showcase what's possible with Markdown and the ConTeXt typesetting system. People claim that AsciiDoc and reStructuredTex

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