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In other news: Florida man hospitalized after hearing back from potential employer on job application.

Still doesn't support footnotes (only as endnotes): https://docs.asciidoctor.org/asciidoc/latest/macros/footnote...

Thought this was about Microsoft..

That line of thought requires us to take unnecessary and costly effort to deduce structure from content. For example, finding a date in an e-mail body via regular expressions or NER tools. If the structure of the content is explicit, we know what part of the text is a date and what parts are not.

I use a Brave extension that opens always a new window. Window management is then left to my WM, XMonad.

Is Landy envious of Girard? With Landy having just 1 (one) wikipedia article to his name, and Girard 36 (thirty-six)? Who knows. Thanks for the reference.

Emacs is a multifunctional computing environment that is popular among software developers. It can also be a highly useful tool for authors who write prose instead of computer code. You can use Emacs to manage your research, write articles, books and websites and publish these to different formats. Emacs the most powerful software tool ever invented, but its learning curve can be quite steep. These articles are written for beginners and explain everything you need to know to use Emacs as your main writing tool.

Emacs Writing Studio (EWS) is a minimalist configuration that helps authors to research, write and publish articles books and websites.

More carrot related ads incoming.

Your data does not answer: how many of these books are actually read (in the US)?

Moving to Buckfast, then?

Wonder when they will bring out the (next) Gimp.

Why barefoot?

I like (current) bestseller lists: they usually contain all books not worth reading.

Same with Hatchards (close to Waterstones' Picadilly shoppe).

Sega does what Nintendon't.

AsciiDoc still has no footnotes, but only endnotes. Therefore not really useful for writing non-fiction books. As org-mode files are only text files, you can use any editor you like. If you want all the goodies (agenda, TODOs etc), you have to use Emacs, yes.

The Conet Project: Recordings of Shortwave Numbers Stations is a four (later five) CD set of recordings of numbers stations and noise stations released by Redial-Discs beginning in 1997. Numbers stations are shortwave radio stations believed to be operated by government agencies to communicate with deployed spies. The collection of recordings is primarily the work of Irdial-Discs founder Akin Fernandez, who began recording the transmissions of numbers stations in 1992.[1] The original 4 CD set was released in 1997 and reissued in 2013 with an additional 5th CD.[2]

The recordings have been sampled in various artistic projects, most famously in the 2001 film Vanilla Sky and Wilco’s 2001 album Yankee Hotel Foxtrot. In keeping with its “free music” policy, the label made the entire collection available for free to download as a collection of MP3 files (along with a PDF version of the included booklet).[3] Redial-Discs has since discontinued the hosting of said files, but still provides links to alternative active hosts.[4]

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Conet_Project

When I want to preserve online content, the first step is to take it offline by storing a local copy. Usually by using something like Reader Viewer and exporting it to PDF. That sometimes doesn't look as good as the website, but content is more important. The directory is indexed by `recoil`, so I can later access this and similar content.

> it's just faster and has less transfers.

Rest asured, that won't happen.

Books.

Looks doable from London. There's also the Dashwood Mausoleum close by. Worth a visit?

I check out what's under the bonnet.

Only to let it cool down again ...

Two good points:

"One immediately notices that most of the keywords have the same length. This is unlike English programming languages where keywords have greater differences in lengths (e.g. cons, display vs. 建， 出). I do not think this will be a serious readability problem, because even without syntax highlighting, the code above looks very clear to me. This is probably going to be a matter of personal taste. The code is compact, as the keywords are one or two characters long."

Maybe "SAP Dirty Sanchez" would be a better name?

When I hung out with him last year, he was fixing an Emacs bug on a field notes notebook.

Can you give a real life (not related to math) example?

Are the parts dealing with privelege, gender etc. bearable?

Well, shit happens.

"The method that I have developed, the fractal-summary, preserves these two strengths of progressive-summaries and improves upon it in two important ways.

First, it adds an additional step before we even get to the text: context. Most of these great books present a whole new system of thinking with alien terms created by the author. The problem with diving head-first into the text is that it is hard to understand each sentence without understanding the whole system. Of course, this is a chicken-and-egg problem. You also can’t fully understand the whole system without reading each sentence.

The purpose of the contextual step is to give you a rough and general outline of the entire system so that you can better understand what certain words mean and how each section fits into the overall structure. What this step looks like in practice, however, varies significantly. One way to gain context is to have a professor explain how a book fits into the larger philosophical canon, who its interlocutors are, and its historical context. Another way is to read an online summary of the entire book before picking up the text and reading a chapter summary before diving into each chapter. Another is to consult a glossary. Yet another is to read secondary literature that reconstructs the book. Regardless of the exact method, gaining sufficient context before diving into a text will payoff many-fold in increased comprehension and reading speed."