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Can I ask when you had this exchange, which email you contacted (I've tried emailing both the support address and the individual addresses) and which email provider you use?

My DM42 broke in under 2 weeks and Swissmicros support was completely unreachable. I would strongly recommend getting a used older HP calculator instead.

This was not my experience with TeXmacs. I tried it recently after using LaTeX for all of my papers, and while it is nice, it is not replacing LaTeX for me.

Table output in particular was much lower quality than LaTeX with booktabs. I think I had to manually resize columns, which was tedious, and I never had to do that with LaTeX. There were a lot of similar situations I found myself in, where I wound up needing to fight TeXmacs quite a bit to get it to output what I wanted.

I prefer my LaTeX workflow where I can edit markup in Emacs, and have a preview almost instantly generated next to my editor by a filesystem watcher & makefile. TeXmacs necessitates using its own interface (which lacks my vim keybindings and Emacs customizations) and I could not find many resources on editing TeXmacs documents in external programs.

I did appreciate that the general typesetting in TeXmacs was high quality, and the ability to type TeX macros and get e.g. enumerated lists quickly was very nice. But overall, I prefer LaTeX.

I believe the notification did not get sent out for the first PR until a comment was posted on it (the PR was opened 2 days ago).

I think the top commenter on this thread (Rob) may not realize his comment is the one that is triggering the first wave of notifications, based on his choice of sound effect.

There are different extractors/services, and you can toggle them pretty easily. By default it screenshots everything, exports a PDF, saves like 4 different HTML copies and submits the link to the wayback machine. It also tries to extract important text, and stores that separately. You could easily configure it to only extract text, turn off some HTML extractors, or disable the PDF and screenshot captures if you want to prioritize disk space.

It sounds like BioNTech did all the development work on the vaccine, but Pfizer funded the actual creation of the vaccine and runs the trials/logistics/finances/business stuff (considering how temperature-sensitive this is, logistics have to be fairly painful). Both should probably be credited (as they are in this article).

It's really unfortunate that LaTeX and friends seem to be the only options for document typesetting with anything vaguely complicated. There are just so many quirks and oddities; many times I feel like error messages might as well be written in another language, and the syntax becomes ugly fast. Personally I haven't had much luck getting into LuaLateX or XeLaTeX, but I'd be interested in hearing if anyone has found those to be worthy alternatives. Having looked into LuaLaTeX a bit, it seems there are a lot of odd quirks there as well.

That appears to be a Windows-only game using a fairly pricey subscription model. Looking at gameplay of it, it seems to have potential, but it also looks very janky and unfinished. Maybe after a few more years of development.

Probably a slow process of sending more probes and getting more samples to test, and eventually shipping them back to Earth. We don't really have any interest in manipulating whatever ecosystem Venus potentially has, but we could certainly use microbes that survive in such an environment.

I strongly doubt there is life on Venus, however.

Rust 1.46 6 years ago

The quality of life improvements to cargo look very nice, and I feel that rust wouldn't be remotely as successful without such a tool. I'm very glad I won't have to be manually picking target directories out of my borg backups anymore when I'm running out of disk space.

While I agree with your sentiment, a big part of why the TI-84 is so ubiquitous is because they're required for standardized tests. I suppose their reasoning is that supporting assembly programs makes it trivial to break/fake the test mode on their calculators.

That said, they didn't even use test mode when I took the SAT, so I don't know.

Personally, I found Opus Magnum far too easy. In TIS-100, the constraints are brutal, and I often made multiple attempts before I was successful. In Opus Magnum, I finished every puzzle on my first try. You have almost no constraints. While optimizing is still a challenge, it felt much less rewarding to me. I feel no compulsion to return to OM after finishing the main campaign, but I return to TIS-100 every few months or so to mess around with the harder puzzles.

The 3 saved puzzles is a bit annoying, but you can always backup the puzzle files since they're just text.