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New comment by jxy in "Crunch – a Scheme compiler with a minimal runtime"

jxy — Tue, 17 Dec 2024 15:27:05 +0000

> No support for first class continuations

I'm not sure about how people would feel about this. I have mixed feelings. It feels like a loss of many things. What are the gains from ditching continuations?

New comment by jxy in "Mysterious, mathematical origins of world’s most unusually shaped national flag"

jxy — Tue, 10 Dec 2024 16:49:55 +0000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_non-rectangular_flags

New comment by jxy in "LaTeX.css – Make your website look like a LaTeX document"

jxy — Wed, 04 Dec 2024 17:36:41 +0000

The HTML version is quite nice. Do you know how they did the LaTeX to html conversion?

New comment by jxy in "Character amnesia in China"

jxy — Mon, 28 Oct 2024 14:46:19 +0000

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

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

New comment by jxy in "The Anvil Text Editor"

jxy — Thu, 24 Oct 2024 22:46:24 +0000

mouse or keyboard is really just a preference. you could do mouse 1 sweep-select 2-3 in one window, and move to another mouse 1-3, and move to another do mouse 1-3, ... Or you could do, in case of vi, y$ (or other movements), ^w w (or other way to select other window), (move your cursor) p, ^w w, (move your cursor) p, ... Though I'm biased, because I feel it's much easier to move my mouse than do one of wWbBeE^$fFtThjkl to move my cursor, even though it is a lot faster and efficient to only move a few of my fingers than my whole arm.

the font is likely Go Font, the proportional one

New comment by jxy in "Grandmaster-level chess without search"

jxy — Fri, 18 Oct 2024 18:28:02 +0000

Nature's evolution algorithm took millions of years to find the architecture and the base model, which then takes decades to be fine tuned to be able to form this opinion.

New comment by jxy in "Cat memes went viral 100 years ago"

jxy — Sun, 29 Sep 2024 03:37:18 +0000

from OED:

the modern sense of "meme"

> 2. An image, video, piece of text, etc., typically humorous in nature, that is copied and spread rapidly by internet users, often with slight variations. Also with modifying word, as internet meme, etc.

> 1998

> The next thing you know, his friends have forwarded it [sc. an animation of a dancing baby] on and it's become a net meme.

> Sci. & Technol. Week (transcript of CNN TV programme) (Nexis) 24 January

the modern sense of "viral"

> Chiefly Marketing. Of, designating, or involving the rapid spread of information (esp. about a product or service) amongst customers by word of mouth, e-mail, etc. to go viral: to propagate in such a manner; to (be) spread widely and rapidly.

> 1989

> The staff almost unanimously voted with their feet as long waiting lists developed for use of the Macintoshes... ‘It's viral marketing. You get one or two in and they spread throughout the company.’

> PC User (Nexis) 27 September 31

Edit: format

New comment by jxy in "macOS Sequoia is available today"

jxy — Mon, 16 Sep 2024 22:06:43 +0000

interesting

    % /usr/bin/jq --version
    jq-1.6-159-apple-gcff5336-dirty

New comment by jxy in "CIEL Is an Extended Lisp"

jxy — Fri, 30 Aug 2024 16:02:50 +0000

so it wouldn't require a shell that supports job control?

New comment by jxy in "Taskwarrior – CLI Task Management"

jxy — Wed, 28 Aug 2024 14:15:43 +0000

How does taskwarrior deal with recurring tasks now? Like tasks that have a due date recur every two weeks, or tasks that have a due date always two weeks after done.

New comment by jxy in "Stern-Gerlach Experiment"

jxy — Wed, 14 Aug 2024 03:21:31 +0000

If you like to read Feynman: https://www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/II_35.html#Ch35-S2

New comment by jxy in "Tsung-Dao Lee, physicist who challenged a law of nature, has died"

jxy — Wed, 07 Aug 2024 13:58:40 +0000

We chose a random direction as a convention, just as we chose a random charge as positive.

New comment by jxy in "CrowdStrike's impact on aviation"

jxy — Mon, 29 Jul 2024 21:25:03 +0000

I don't trust any kind of generalization like this, which only serves further disinformation and misinformation.

There are bad journalists (if they can be called journalists at all) and good journalists. At this point in history, our only hope lies with diligent reporters from reputable publishers.

New comment by jxy in "Llama 3.1"

jxy — Tue, 23 Jul 2024 21:19:08 +0000

https://github.com/ollama/ollama/issues/5881

https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp/issues/8650

New comment by jxy in "Llama 3.1"

jxy — Tue, 23 Jul 2024 21:17:14 +0000

You are a maintainer of a software that depends on ollama, so you should know that ollama depends on llama.cpp. And as of now, llama.cpp doesn't support the new ROPE: https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp/issues/8650, and all ollama can do is wait for llama.cpp: https://github.com/ollama/ollama/issues/5881

New comment by jxy in "Zettlr: One-Stop Publication Workbench"

jxy — Mon, 22 Jul 2024 00:55:02 +0000

https://github.com/Zettlr/Zettlr/issues/1966

New comment by jxy in "Zettlr: One-Stop Publication Workbench"

jxy — Sun, 21 Jul 2024 17:06:02 +0000

I was trying this for a while, but the inability of labeling and refering to specific math equations became a deal breaker.

New comment by jxy in "Entering text in the terminal is complicated"

jxy — Tue, 09 Jul 2024 02:55:52 +0000

Yeah. That's how rio's text windows [0] look like in hold mode, except that it has a much simpler design and better support of mouse.

[0] https://p9f.org/magic/man2html/1/rio

New comment by jxy in "Research into homeopathy: data falsification, fabrication and manipulation"

jxy — Fri, 05 Jul 2024 21:29:19 +0000

THE PLACEBO EFFECT:

It works even when you know it's a placebo.

New comment by jxy in "Show HN: Edna, note taking app for developers"

jxy — Tue, 02 Jul 2024 19:37:34 +0000

For equations and flowcharts, I would argue that the rendering is more important than the textual "code", so a "preview block" with rendered output would be very useful already.

A much better UI would be something like what you described, such as

- https://github.com/benrbray/prosemirror-math?tab=readme-ov-f...

- https://support.typora.io/Math/#inline-math