jxy

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Comment · 1 year ago
> 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?

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Comment · 1 year ago
The HTML version is quite nice. Do you know how they did the LaTeX to html conversion?
Comment · 2 years ago
Comment · 2 years ago
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

Comment · 2 years ago
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.
Comment · 2 years ago
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

Comment · 2 years ago
interesting

    % /usr/bin/jq --version
    jq-1.6-159-apple-gcff5336-dirty
Comment · 2 years ago
so it wouldn't require a shell that supports job control?
Comment · 2 years ago
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.
Comment · 2 years ago
Comment · 2 years ago
We chose a random direction as a convention, just as we chose a random charge as positive.
Comment · 2 years ago
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.

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