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On a related note: What's a good introduction to compiler design ? Has the dragon book been superseded by something yet? Ideally you'd be able to write a decent compiler for your own language after going through it.

research interests ≠ personal interests, necessarily.

I don't see how being OK with silences and gaps matches this "introvert" trait mentioned in the parent.

To my ears, this usual "introverts are not made uncomfortable by silences" refrain sounds condescending.

This whole discussion is making me hesitate to actually switch from plain text to html emails… unforeseen consequences!

Is that bad?

It also seems like a nice idea to me ¹. It could also be a potential solution to ads and such. Pay a few cent and get a cookie allowing you ad-free browsing on a given website. You could also imagine a half centralized system where “website collectives” get together and the fee you pay allows you access to any of the website in the collective…

Couldn't gnu taler allow this kind of stuff?

¹ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13829545

any book recommendation on the basics of compression?

Right, and I asked (or tried to, at least!) about that latter question: stuff like transport, isolation, etc that could make wood less interesting than other construction materials, environmentally.

Beside the reasonable point that building out of wood allows "sequestrating" carbon long(er?) term, are there studies working the maths out and confirming that?

It seems the intuitively clear solutions often can be deceiving since there are hidden aspects balancing things out and I'm wondering if it's the case here.

I installed link cleaner¹ at some point, but can't vouch for it.

¹ https://github.com/idlewan/link_cleaner

As the sibling comment says, the "extension bundle" thing would allow for: less people to trust when installing the extension and guaranteed uniform behaviour without extensions stepping on each other toes, plus the fingerprinting thing which I actually didn't think about!

tor browser bundle

Something I'd like to see instead of a modified version of ff is some sort of meta-extension that I could install on vanilla ff. It would essentially be a bundle of

* add blocker (say ublock)

* js disabler (noscript)

* https stuff

* anti tracker

* url cleaner

* user agent spoofer

* cookie cleaner

* whatever decentraleyes does

* enable the right settings in about:config

* …?

All the extensions are there already, but it would guarantee them working well together and you wouldn't have to look for each extension and wonder if it's actually the one you want, but just install "the one".

what's that niche?

Are there countries where drug research and production isn't privatized? I would naively consider it ideal if research and “recipes” were made in the open, shared between countries and the production wouldn't be the job of for-profits… what am I missing?

Ah, sorry, I actually meant zettelkasten's website, as linked by a sibling comment. Thanks for the links!

even after visiting the website, I don't really understand what zettelkasten is really. Is it a software or a standard of sorts?

> if they're not a hypocrite.

I don't agree at all with your statement here. There is a whole historical/social difference at play here; taking it into account doesn't make you a hypocrite.

(I hate the "hypocrite" judgement. So easy to cast and rarely true)

> The entire aesthetic

Do you have any other examples matching such an aesthetic? I quite like it too.

Interesting! thanks for the link

> Editors of $prestigious_journal resign from $prestigious_journal today. Tomorrow, they start $prestigious_journal1 (modulo some new name-choosing scheme) and post a website or whatever.

This exact thing happened e.g. there https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journal_of_Algebraic_Combinato...

This one appeared on hn some time ago:

https://sansforgetica.rmit/

A more reasonable explanation than "languages influences personality" is just the change of context. You speak different languages in different contexts.

What kind of treatment are they talking about?

> I don't hate it as much as Computer Modern or Times.

What (latex compatible) fonts do you like/recommend then?

In my opinion, it's kind of sad to see how strongly Computer Modern dominates the font choices in latex (and more generally the latex monoculture).

How well does it fare for those tasks (code and papers)? I'd very much like to have such a screen but the price tags of what I've seen so far is probihitive…

There is ring: https://ring.cx/ (and I have no idea of its quality/status/etc)

> I could imagine several people in computing alone that might end up inventing three different fields.

I'm curious, who would those be?

Very interesting. I'd be interested in seeing what an alternative to latex based on S-expressions would look like. I'm tempted to try and write it first as a scheme library; the end goal would be to have something more structured and closer to a programming language than latex, with a better content/styling separation…

What's the advantage of fastmail compared to, for instance, the free iirc 5 mail addresses that gandi offers you when registering a domain name: https://www.gandi.net/domain ?