"Everything you set up to customize the system, like desktop icons, window positions, desktop resolution, and other settings is reset every boot unless you manually tell the system to save the current state as the "boot file.""

OS in ROM so of course no state could be saved except as a file on a floppy disk. ROM based systems have certain advantages when working with classes of investigative and curious teenagers.

Hard drives came a bit later; there was a retrofit of a Rodime 20 Mb drive that fitted into one of the podules on the back of the A310, and had its drivers in an updated system ROM. Good times.

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https://support.minitab.com/en-us/minitab/help-and-how-to/gr...

The `plotrix` package for R looks hopeful (mentioned on one of the links kindly provided above) as it includes a 'minitab style dotplot' function.

Anyone know of a terminal program that can do proper dotplots?

On the stats side I'm seeing 1) stylometry expert finding nothing conclusive 2) The database made by scraping(?) the email archives being filtered in various ways to reduce the number of candidates.

On 2) I'm wondering if focusing on words without synonyms would basically mean (as writer says) technical vocabulary. Therefore anyone interested in the technical subject at hand would have to use those words, so the overlap in technical words just tells us that Mr Back was interested in the same kind of thing that Santoshi was interested in, which is already known as Back had a history with the hashcash stuff?

Random idea: can the database identify which subject threads the overlapping synonym-less words are in? I'm guessing a lot of them will be in a small number of threads.

PS: Is it really that expensive to licence specific fonts at book publisher scale?

I have only scanned the contents of Part 1 (reading from paper) and read chapter 6 quickly, because that is the only chapter that considers the issue of the layout of the printed material.

My interest in this question is mainly in presenting short paragraphs of text in paper worksheets and handouts for teaching. Teacher training courses tend to echo the 'sans for dyslexics' notion but in addition suggest the use of headings with space before and after and the use of bullet points to break up material, the use of right-ragged (for LTR languages) so that inter-word spacing remains constant, and the use of line spacing chosen so that the space between the lines is a bit longer than the spacing between the words. The choice of typeface is seen as being a bit less important (as long as it is consistent within the handout) given that secondary school children will be familiar with a range of type faces.

Now I'm trying to find some kind of reference for this view about presentation of the page. If anyone has any ideas that would be ace.

The British Dyslexia Association provide this pdf

https://www.thedyslexia-spldtrust.org.uk/media/downloads/69-...

Contrast that with a decade ago. All systems accessed via networked PCs using Windows native clients. I had to use RDP to a desktop to access anything from outside the network.

One day someone is going to realise that the organisation does not have to spend £££ replacing every PC just to keep running a Web browser.

Are these not creative software? Perhaps not industry standard, but what is industry going to look like in a couple of decades anyway?

I suppose that checking early printings of key works looking for annotations is a pretty standard thing to do now.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Presentation_of_Self_in_Ev...

[Domestos is a brand name for bleach, and Vim is a scouring powder that was popular decades ago]

(I come from a part of the UK that was notorious for smuggling, wrecking and other forms of piracy).

Is the wikipedia page more or less correct or in need of editing in your view? (Given that you are probably the current world expert on Noether having written the book)

Link to a pdf file that you don't need an institutional login for.

I did an activity in a basic maths class based on this paper years ago. Each student had an A3 map of the main island of the UK. Some set their compasses to 5cm radius and counted the number of radii around the island. Others tried 2.5cm, and 1cm and half a cm. Worked ok, good lesson.

> Here Reich fell in with musicians, dancers, sculptors and filmmakers. Sculptor Richard Serra was a neighbour of Reich’s at the time in Lower Manhattan, as was experimental filmmaker Michael Snow. For a brief period, Reich helped out with fellow minimalist Philip Glass’s removal company, Chelsea Light Moving. He recalls paying $65 a month in rent for a loft on Duane Street. “But I had a hard time paying that,” he says.

From

https://www.ft.com/content/02edd1fa-8e18-4483-ba24-7559d329a...

(also https://archive.is/C1TiZ)

I recollect reading that Reich made a definite decision against teaching as a day job because of the demands if you do it right.