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ofrzeta
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- You could try having an LLM port it to Linux :) As an aside I was always (well, no longer) hoping that Photoshop gets ported to Linux because at least an IRIX port existed, so there has to be some source code with X11 or whatever library code.
https://fsck.technology/software/Silicon%20Graphics/Software...
- Manuals like AutoCADs have certainly felt valuable https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/Gm8AAeSwwIZowjzn/s-l1600.jpg It's not even complete, for instance the ADS manual is missing. It's also a bit more expensive with roughly 3700 USD in 1992.
- Obligatory mention of Sap Paulo here ... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cidade_Limpa
- > it reminds me of when I was 8 and everyone at school used as many swear words as possible
+1 I've experienced this at conferences, too, where fellow Germans in their English talks excessively use words like shit, fuck or bullshit. Maybe it's also due to exposure to English/American culture through media where everyone talks like this in movies and songs.
- Not in my lifetime, that's for sure.
- No specific technical questions here, just some random remarks. When I worked at a printed magazine focused on Linux there was always the dream of creating a full production pipeline based on LaTeX but we never made it. The best we had was a text based markup format that in the end produced some markup with "Quark Tags" that could be imported in Quark or later Indesign. We also did some sponsoring of Scribus but never got to use it (trained graphics designers use Quark or Indesign, right).
I did some tests with Scribus but got to the conclusion that a huge part of the layout result is the hyphenation. There's that famous technical paper by Frank Liang about hyphenation in TeX called "Word Hy-phen-a-tion by Com-put-er".
Overall I think your layout looks great as a magazine layout. But for instance if you look at the third paragraph in the second page (starting with "The company hoped...") there's a bit too much white space between the words, I think. Also at the end of first paragraph (ending in "by end users - a first for the chip): it's pulling together "users" and "a" while it should be separated by an em-dash - but the problem could also be in the source - anyway there's not need to stuff that line with whitespace as it should be ragged left).
- What does LaTeX have to do with TLA+? Also I think "most of distributed systems such as AWS" might be an exaggeration. At least the public known examples of formal verification in AWS are scarce.
- MD was quite conventient for recording (interviews, ambient ...) and with random access much better than cassettes.
- You mean like the Zip drive? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zip_drive
- It doesn't seem to record my progress.
- I was researching that topic a little bit a while ago but with no usable outcome. The aim was to find out how to cope with SSDs as backups. Is it enough to plug them into a power connection once in a while so the firmware starts the refresh cycle? Do I need to do something else? How often does it need to be plugged in? Thankful for any pointers ...
- see also Pi, the movie, although it's more about numbers and the Kabbalah :) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pi_(film)
- Someone recently claimed here they are using Yandex search but I don't know of any evidence. Also didn't Yandex "leave" Russia (legally)?
- There's also the Unison sync tool but it's at 2.53.7.
- Money quote: "In a world dominated by Chromium, choosing a rendering engine is an act of resistance"
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- "The Disruptor is the result of our efforts to build the world’s highest performance financial exchange at LMAX."
"There are only a few comments in the version 1.0 source code, most of which are associated with assembly language snippets. That said, the lack of comments is simply not an issue. This code is so literate, so easy to read, that comments might even have gotten in the way."
"This is the kind of code I aspire to write.”