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by timoteostewart 3y ago
They kind of threw in the kitchen sink on this one, and they admit it: Platforms The iso image again [Ed.: after a while of it not] includes binaries for all platforms. For the last several years, some binary sets had been pruned,
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by timoteostewart 3y ago
See the lower part of this web page for some enhancements in TL ‘24: https://tug.org/texlive/pretest.html#news
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by timoteostewart 3y ago
I guess we found Ted Chiang’s alt account.
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by timoteostewart 3y ago
Title is misspelled. It’s “Amie” not “Aime.”
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by timoteostewart 3y ago
I would say it’s a handy sink or inbox where I can route URL-based content for immediate processing and delayed consumption. No current shortcomings. I am always thinking of ways to add features, but it works very well as is.
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by timoteostewart 3y ago
I email myself URLs of web pages I want to read later. I have a program that periodically checks my email and takes action on emails that I send to a specific alias. Actions include extracting the article/content of the page and conver
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by timoteostewart 3y ago
I noticed an odd typo in the html for this web page. Inside the head element, in this line: <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=uft-8 " /> The `uft-8` should be `utf-8`. (
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by timoteostewart 3y ago
You may not want to jump in the deep end. But maybe take one step at a time in the directions of knowledge acquisition and community finding and you can evaluate your progress and satisfaction as you go. Best of luck!
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by timoteostewart 3y ago
I have two cents. “Expert” can mean a few different things. On the one hand, it can mean expertise in the knowledge pertaining to the field. On the other hand, it can also mean becoming a part of a community of like-minded and like-interest
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by timoteostewart 3y ago
Who’s on your list so far?
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by timoteostewart 3y ago
As of the writing of my comment, 2 days ago: https://github.com/basecamp/handbook/commits/master/
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by timoteostewart 3y ago
On a less ambitious scale: There is a book about someone who read through the entire Encyclopaedia Britannica. It’s titled “The Know-It-All: One Man’s Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World,” written by A.J. Jacobs. In this
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by timoteostewart 3y ago
Yes, for me too.
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by timoteostewart 3y ago
We’re big fans of Kuga in our house. https://youtube.com/@kugastravel5180?si=zbpq4l7U--QN9icL
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Show HN: Hacker News interface with thumbnail previews plus details about links(thnr.net)
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by timoteostewart 3y ago
DMTF (not DTMF) https://www.dmtf.org/
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A website discloses a list of its cookies by name(ianfleming.com)
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by timoteostewart 3y ago
The Marion Stokes VHS tape collection was sent to the Internet Archive. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marion_Stokes
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by timoteostewart 3y ago
Short story “Melancholy Elephants” by Spider Robinson about a future in which all the songs are already taken. http://www.spiderrobinson.com/melancholyelephants.html
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"Don't Get Distracted" – writing software that may be used to harm others(calebhearth.com)
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by timoteostewart 3y ago
The citations are to Atlas Obscura and NPR, so maybe not really WP:OR in the sense WP defines and cares about? 6. Taub, Matthew (March 10, 2020). “The Intrepid Mother and Son Who Unraveled a Geographic Hoax”. Atlas Obscura. 7. “Th
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by timoteostewart 3y ago
I think JS libraries such as gif.js and gifplayer.js can display specific frames of a gif. So possibly you could create an animated gif whose frames are your portfolio of images, and so you could retrieve n images using your lone n-frame gi
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by timoteostewart 3y ago
Could you transmit multiple images in a zip file?
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by timoteostewart 3y ago
Wayback Machine has your back: https://web.archive.org/web/19991128135114/http://129.105.11...
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by timoteostewart 3y ago
Robert Littell’s spy novels up through Vicious Circle are wonderful. He wrote The Company, which has been adapted for the screen.
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by timoteostewart 3y ago
I switched to using .home.arpa[0] on my local network last year. Looked funny to my eyes at first, but it seems normal to me now. [0] https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc8375
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by timoteostewart 3y ago
Engaging and informative write-up. Thanks!
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by timoteostewart 3y ago
Tooting my own horn, but https://dev.thnr.net/ is how I’ve enjoyed HN for the past year. Thumbnails plus surfacing details about links such as author and channel. About page: https://dev.thnr.net/about/
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“I can't believe I'm praising Tcl” by Yossi Kreinin (2008)(yosefk.com)
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The ingenuity you exercise to overcome limited resources (whether money or information) is a telltale of your determination to succeed.

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