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by yannis 5y ago
Also probably "backward compatibility." Math books have a long shelf-life!
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by yannis 5y ago
It is an entertaining article, but I am not too sure if I agree that Knuth was yak shaving. However by luck, inspiration, conviction or observation he understood what makes a program last. You focus on one thing and you do it well. On the w
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by yannis 5y ago
TeX doesn't do this automatically, but is rare to see "rivers" in TeX produced publications due to the superiority of its paragraph building algorithm.
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by yannis 5y ago
It is Pascal, which is then used to compile the original TeX code. See example of running TeX/LaTeX at [1]. PGF/TikZ is a very well written program. What impresses me is that it does have the right amount of abstraction. It comes
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by yannis 5y ago
PARI/GP for number theory calculations, is now in the browser thanks to WebAssemly. https://pari.math.u-bordeaux.fr/gp.html
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by yannis 5y ago
I wonder how this is related also to meetings. From my own experience, any meeting with more than 3 persons can never yield results effectively.
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by yannis 5y ago
See the "the earliest Englishman" aka "Pildown man" at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piltdown_Man Stereotypical comments, lower the standards of this site and are intellectually tiresome.
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by yannis 5y ago
Thanks for posting it. Very interesting to read.
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by yannis 5y ago
I was born omnivorous. However, I accept the premise to minimize suffering of animals, including humans in all respects.
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by yannis 5y ago
I have collected stamps as a kid and I have been collecting Postal History for decades on and off, focusing mainly on research and writing up the covers that I have managed to collect. Kept me sane during the COVID-19 lockdowns. Philately i
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by yannis 5y ago
Most amazing he also came to Cyprus and I was a kid at the time. We all went to see him in his car parade. Posters with his picture were left pasted on walls for many years. Video here https://www.britishpathe.com/video&#x2F
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by yannis 6y ago
Thanks for posting. This can be very useful, especially for personal local use. The "README" needs a bit more polish.
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by yannis 6y ago
Best at the source, with great photos, https://siberiantimes.com/other/others/news/a-well-preserved...
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by yannis 7y ago
Besides this, the world not just the US need standby health personnel in a similar fashion to armies. Soldiers do nothing unless needed, a "health workers" army can do the same.
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by yannis 7y ago
Has the US gone nuts? I know this might not go well in some circles, but is there another way to put it?
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by yannis 7y ago
Monadology (French: La Monadologie, 1714) which is one of Gottfried Leibniz's best known works representing his later philosophy has pretty much the same arguments. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monadology
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by yannis 7y ago
Agreed, however the murders were real.
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by yannis 7y ago
I was in RSA in the early 80s. There were a lot of RSA ships doing research in the area at the time. As was the custom the issued commemorating envelopes with special postmarks at the time https://www.picclickimg.com/d/
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by yannis 7y ago
Lua's Lpeg module ( http://www.inf.puc-rio.br/~roberto/lpeg/ ) is probably what you are after: lower = lpeg.R("az") upper = lpeg.R("AZ") letter = lower + upper Personally
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by yannis 7y ago
It is safe to use using the rpc package. See Rob Pike's https://blog.golang.org/gobs-of-data for motivation.
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by yannis 7y ago
It is a pity though, that the source code is not publicly available, even if the license is not GPL'd it could still be made available to non-members.
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by yannis 7y ago
Nice example of using "gob" to create RPC services. But why call it a "framework"?
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by yannis 7y ago
They did not use ink. It is actually a stylus used to write on wax tablets ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wax_tablet ). Later in the article it says ... Other finds included more than 400 waxed writing tablets, which of
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by yannis 7y ago
Thanks for the article. I know you mentioned at the end of the article that there will be a future article with more details about your recommendation to use Rust. Can you expand on your reasons for this a bit?
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by yannis 7y ago
A small tangential comment: In the README you mention octopi. Although not wrong as per the Oxford English Dictionary which lists octopuses, octopi and octopodes (in that order), normally it is better to use octopuses.
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by yannis 7y ago
There is a beautifully illustrated arxiv paper Ballooning Spiders: The Case for Electrostatic Flight by Peter W. Gorham at https://arxiv.org/abs/1309.4731 , which is a good read, if you want to get a bit more into the s
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The Great Lightbulb Conspiracy(spectrum.ieee.org)
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by yannis 7y ago
It is always interesting to see Gates reading list. Most books on the current list is about upheavals and issues in society. Paul Collier's Book, The Future of Capitalism is on the list.
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by yannis 7y ago
This is an excellent book, but perhaps a bit dated despite the fact that Mathematical Books have a long shelf-life. Factoid: The book is noteworthy because it was a major source of information for the legendary and self-taught mathematician
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by yannis 7y ago
It is gaining a bit of traction with LuaLaTeX and the luamplib library, but unfortunately PGF/tikZ seems to be the preferred library for many projects.

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