mgr86

I have a fascination with hobos and freight train riders and watch a fair amount of videos on Youtube about it. One of hobo had a RAG he would query about train yards and catchout points. Wasn't a full timer, but built it last spring I gathered. Not art exactly, but a similar idea. Humans like shortcuts.

fwiw, I like to set max-width of columns of text to about `64ch`. In smaller view ports I may go down to about 45ch. But I feel the range of 50-65ch is ideal for reading. Setting to 20% or 20 vw is a bit dangerous for this precise issue.

I'll second this and share my father's experience. He spent most of his adult life in PA, but he and my mom moved to SC partially for finical reasons when COPD forced him into early retirement--his brother and business partner was also moving too.

Anyhow, a few years back he found out while being evaluated for a lung transplant at Duke he had stage 2 lung cancer (I don't recall the type). They had actually missed it six months prior on an earlier scan. Thereby dashing his hopes for a transplant. Long story short my brother convinced him to head to UPENN for a second opinon. Where they were at the time, one of a handfull of places in the country that did proton radiation. His SC team convinced him to do one round of chemo as he couldn't get into PENN for another 5 months. He has been cancer free for a few years now. And they credit the Proton radiation.

I frequently ask claude to write and review org-mode files. I've found it useful to maintain knowledge decisions both for claude and myself. Less so for other members of my team who wont use emacs or (n)vim. But thought I'd share.

For what its worth, I have had Claude try to name two of my personal projects _Sprout_. One was a dashboard for my Beancount instance, so I thought it cute. But the second time it attempted to name something sprout it was more of a wtf, why Sprout. Fascinating here to see it again.

And here I am just having them author org-files for me and them to refer back too. For fun I even ask for DITA sometimes.

I think semantically this is the perfect choice. Considering the history and intended use of PI.

As an aside, I’m still rather annoyed that web components use hyphens. I really thought colon’s and namespaces made perfect sense there.

The format mainly, I think. Due to loss of a grant and poor market conditions we have shifted our annual meeting with the board to a virtual format. Which gives me less informal time for discussions.

I work at a nonprofit and the board is largely university librarians. I am asking all of them how have the behavior of their patrons changed in the last five years. How has usage of their subscribed resources changed in the age of AI. They don't share much, but their facial expressions and silence share more than they mean them to. Some universities have cut staff, or reclassified them so that they won't receive benefits.

Thanks for that update. I had worked with epub production in the past, but it was probably nearly 15 years ago at this point.

Yes, that is an important point. I guess I was focused mainly on the browser. Which is not the typical way to consume epubs. But you are right that ePubs are essentially packaged XHTML.

I'd argue XHTML did take off and was very widely adopted for the first 5-10 years of the century.

I'm a bit miffed about the dash. I wish it was a colon. Then well established XML could be simply name-spaced in, and then either styled with css and enhanced with JS. I suspect it wouldn't be that difficult to write something for nginx or apahce that simply converted the colon to a hyphen. Oh well, it cannot be 1999 forever.

Wow, they throw some serious spars at these duodecimal people:

> the problem is that Latin uses base ten, so bases larger than ten end up with names that put a bit too much of an emphasis on their relationship with decimal: undecimal, duodecimal, tridecimal, etc. people who like base twelve like to call it "dozenal" instead of "duodecimal" for this exact reason. these names are simply too biased in decimal's favor. ideally, every base should have a unique name that reflects its properties, rather than trivial information about its size.

wait is your email really [email protected]? I registered java.lang.string (at) gmail back when I was learning java 20+ years ago. Haven't really used it in over a decade though.