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Then I won’t try! And I understand your opinion. But like everyone else I have many programs using many different configuration syntaxes, some using more than one file, some files in nonstandard locations, and some combining configuration from one or more files in my user directory with others somewhere in /etc or who knows where. I find the dwm approach refreshing.

Pontification added later: And it has a beneficial side-effect. I’m not much of a C programmer these days (if I ever was), but I found I was able to understand the dwm code well enough to make some small changes in behavior. So the dwm approach encouraged me to go beyond changing definitions in the headers. (This is aside from 3rd party patches. I was even able to contribute one of those.) This is really in the spirit of free software.

I think dwm has the best approach to configuration: change the program and recompile.

This works for dwm because it compiles in two seconds and has minimal dependencies. I don’t know about hyprland.

https://dwm.suckless.org/customisation/

“The small screen discourages watching Youtube and scrolling social media.”

I don’t get it. If you don’t want to do these things, don’t do them. Why do you need to buy a device that “discourages” you from doing them?

I noticed the same lumping, and came to the same conclusion. When reading the NYT, keep in mind that the agenda comes first, and the way information is imparted serves that agenda. And, at times, if the facts can't be massaged to serve the agenda, the paper resorts to outright lying: http://lee-phillips.org/nytIHRA

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But he didn’t say “scientific computing”. There are not “many other languages” that are used for the stuff that he did describe. Nevertheless, his claim is incorrect. C, C++, Julia, and Fortran are all routinely used for these purposes, sometimes with parts written in assembly. Nothing else, really. The “scientific computing” that people do with Python, Matlab, etc. is not this.

And of these four languages that are successful in this arena, only Fortran and Julia are enjoyable to program in. Between those two, Julia is far more fun and flexible (but brings other drawbacks, of course).

Seems clear to me: it’s a silly number that people think is important. Like the Dow, H-index, GNP, ...

Lua filters for Pandoc have been around for a quite a while. What’s newer is Pandoc’s ability to be used in web browsers. There’s a bit more about this and a general rundown of Pandoc in my recent article for LWN:

https://lwn.net/Articles/1064692/

Exactly. I pointed this out in another comment before seeing yours. They admit they found nothing.

From the Conclusion:

“High-intensity training reduced fat and maintained lean mass in apparently healthy older adults, though changes were small and not clinically meaningful compared with exercise of lower intensity and considering measurement error.”

I didn’t read the whole paper (didn’t see any reason to after seeing this). But the title seems to be contradicted by this conclusion.

All difficult conjectures should be proved by reductio ad absurdum arguments. For if the proof is long and complicated enough you are bound to make a mistake somewhere and hence a contradiction will inevitably appear, and so the truth of the original conjecture is established QED.

-- John Barrow

You’re welcome. I hope it’s useful. And I’m glad you loved my book!

Well, yes. There are several ways to get papers:

https://lee-phillips.org/articleAccess/

It should be obvious that a company is responsible for what it says. I hope this decision spreads to other countries.

These are civil penalties. I wonder if the prohibition against cruel and unusual punishments applies to the (high) statutory punitive damages. Any legal scholars want to help us out?

Good points, especially if one is familiar with the actions if U.S. banana companies in Central America (mainly 19th, early 20th c.).

“life-ruining sums of money from legally careless bloggers” is deterrence. Don’t do the crime if you can’t .....

The language of the article is strongly biased in favor of people stealing artwork: “photographers should stop suing bloggers for copyright infringement!”

The plaintiff gets scolded for not trying to settle. But, by the article’s own account, the defendant ignored emails from the plaintiff!

Photographers should not stop suing if that’s what it takes. People should stop stealing.

They would be in violation even if there were no copyright notice. You own the copyright to anything you create; no notice required.

Look at the list of contributors on the Github page, and you will see one of the popular plagiarism machines. It’s the third most prolific committer to the project.

Caution: partly authored by an LLM.

Unfortunately I’m not familiar with this case.

The problem is that Claudine Gay was not sacked, she was allowed to resign as president and is still, at this moment, a professor at Harvard. Here is her faculty web page:

https://aaas.fas.harvard.edu/people/claudine-gay

So Harvard employs, as a full professor, someone whose Ph.D. thesis contained loads of plagiarism (I’ve seen the evidence, it’s not contestable). A similar offense on the part of the students who sit in her classroom, according to Harvard’s own rules, could lead to expulsion.

EDIT: Also, as pointed out in a comment below, Prof. Gay’s Ph.D. is from Harvard. It was not revoked.

Scientists: better to stay away.

https://lwn.net/Articles/1023299/

Too bad Harvard doesn’t have similarly high standards.

Sounds like you would be interested in the article linked at the top of the page.

I don’t know what this means, but please don’t explain.

applicative’s comment is correct. Every one of your bullet points is wrong, except perhaps the one about treesitter highlighting, but what should one expect? Why should a Markdown parser know anything about arbitrary Markdown extensions?

“batch-mode typesetting seems an oddly low bar for what we can get from a computer.”

I don’t know what this is intended to mean.

“a live (WYSIWYG) typesetter”

I don’t like this mode of interaction. No, thanks.

Typst is fast enough to provide a live preview, and I can use Vim or any editor I want, along with my choice of PDF viewer.

“latex (required by pandoc)”

No.

`--pdf-engine=typst`