goerz

Very nice! I might give it another try sometime soon, then!

I haven't really looked at plotly in a very long time. At that time, it was cloud-based. Having the data I'm plotting sent to ploty's servers, or more generally, my plots depending on the availability of some remote server, was a no-go for me. Has this changed?

That does look impressive! I'm tempted to check how well this runs in Wine (since I'm not a Windows user)

The problem I have with all of these regex websites and tools is that they usually only use the regex dialect of whatever language they’re written in. Or at best, a very incomplete list of dialects. Subtle differences between dialects matter a lot. Personally, I would need at least Perl, Python, GNU utils (with and without -E), BSD utils (or whatever comes with macOS, again with and without-E), and vim with the various settings for “magic”. Ideally, they would also be able to convert between all these dialects.

As far as "fully featured" goes, there is nothing more fully featured than matplotlib. It just tends to take a lot more code to generate a plot, compared to some higher-level libraries, so for simple visualizations, matplotlib may not be worth the tradeoff of power vs ease of use.

How is matplotlib outdated? It's just relatively low-level, so it might be quicker to use high-level tools like seaborn or altair (which use matplotlib as their backend), if that fits the situation. For heavily customized publication-ready plots (that means print), there is no alternative to matplotlib. The other two low-level Python visualization libs, plotly and bokeh (see https://pyviz.org/tools.html) focus on interactive plots, which is an entirely different use case! Bokeh just does not generate visualizations for print. Thus, it does NOT make matplotlib obsolete. On top of that, last time I checked, bokeh was far less flexible than matplotlib.

Me too! $410M worth of caviar sounded like a lot of caviar!

BetterTouchTool

The tool itself is actually Windows-only, it seems.

Also, a more interesting question would be how to map caps lock to ctrl (or something else) on hold, and esc on tap, across platforms.

The underlying project was “argunet” (http://www.argunet.org/)

Philosophers. We were using the early predecessor of this in our philosophy of science course 10 years ago or so (the TA was the guy who’s now the professor behind this project). It’s a pretty neat way to analyze informal logic.

I don't think I understand the security implications of this either. Seems distasteful, but how could it be exploited?

For people who want to make their own: a lot of these are very easy to create in LaTeX. I made a bunch of templates a few years ago (https://michaelgoerz.net/notes/printable-paper-with-latex-an...) that I still regularly use in GoodNotes on the iPad.

Insurance companies are insured against big payouts (reinsurance). As long as it’s not the literal apocalypse, they will pay.

You mean quantum computing (for which photonics are not a leading candidate), or regular photonic computing? Because the latter doesn’t scale any better than normal computers.

Unlikely, as they wouldn’t keep using methods that they’ve broken themselves

about $25 per month, depending on the current EUR/USD conversion rate. It's a machine from their "server auction" (https://www.hetzner.com/sb)

I did! I'm using ResilioSync to synchronize across devices, including a cheap Hetzner server with a 6TB harddrive, and then use Secure ShellFish to access that server from iOS devices (while ResilioSync does have an iOS app, that one is too buggy to be useable)

I wish that was a system-wide feature for external hardware keyboards like Apple's "Smart Keyboard Folio" (exactly like the modifier settings for keyboards available on the Mac)

Great book! For anyone reading this on-screen, I created a tex file that adds a PDF outline, for easier navigation: https://gist.github.com/goerz/4c863a2fde1d3357113b95643d0ace...

How a map at +4 or +6 degrees may or may not look is pretty far from "grade school", and definitely requires sources. I agree that the map in the parent comment doesn't meet my standards for scientific accuracy, due to lack of sources, but that doesn't mean I'd discount it. It's not exactly implausible, extrapolating from current desertification. Seems like the map is from a book (https://www.paragkhanna.com/home/2016/3/9/the-world-4-degree...), so presumably that book would contain explanations. Your Smithsonian map is quite bad, too: It contains no legend, an no explanations at all, although based on the coloring it would seem that there's less desertification than in the parent comment map. But then, it also looks like due to continental drift, the majority of landmass was on the Southern hemisphere. I think it's pretty silly to draw too many conclusions about desertification in the next century from a picture of the earth 170 million years ago, with a completely different distribution of land mass and weather patterns.

It’s not a joke. What are you talking about? 56 million years ago (Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum, the last time temperatures were six degrees higher? Or, back when earth was a molten rock of lava? That’s completely irrelevant to this discussion. Temperatures haven’t been higher than a degree since the last ice age (see the excellent relevant xkcd: https://www.climatecentral.org/news/climate-change-xkcd-comi...). Rapid anthropogenic global warming does not bode well for human civilization. That doesn’t mean life on earth or humans as a species will be wiped out, but you can’t say “earth was hotter when the dinosaurs were around, so, no problem”

Source?

I suppose new development would happen as part of luatex. It would be really nice if latex could compile to more accessible documents!

I find Texpad to work great in principle, although I get frustrated by any text editor that is not vim. If you have the ability to sideload (that is, you have a developer account), there is a fork of iVim (https://github.com/holzschu/iVim) that supports running TeXLive locally on the iPad. I wrote up some notes on how to make this work some time ago: https://michaelgoerz.net/notes/editing-latex-on-the-ipad-wit...

When I don't need offline editing, another workflow I've used is to do the editing on my linux server: edit via Blink/tmux/vim on the left, and see the compilation result on the right via Screens/vncserver/evince (with auto-reloading).

The Overleaf website is a bit painful to use on an iPad. Hopefully, this will change with the "desktop-grade" Safari announced for iOS 13. Maybe someone already running the beta could test this?

Overleaf has excellent offline support through its git interface (or Dropbox, if you prefer).

+1 on Texpad. It also integrates extremely well with File Providers. You can clone a repo of your TeX project on Working Copy, and then link the entire checkout folder in Texpad. Then, just edit and compile in Texpad, and switch back to Working Copy to commit and push the changes.

I'm hoping that maybe with this I might be able to access a JupyterLab server with this in some useable way. Fingers crossed!

How does this compare to mutt?