jsrjenkins

How is it nicer with Wayland? I have a high-DPI laptop and it works great with X11. What would I gain with Wayland?

Can't you just set the dpi in each display with X11?

The whole notion of equivalency of evil is actually pernicious, as it is more of a contest of victimhood: "they did worse to us, so we are better". Arguing about numbers abstracts from the reality that even one person being killed for such an inhuman regime is already too many.

I think it would be sufficient to condemn the evil that was committed rather than make a certain group better because "They suffered more". So many suffered from that evil regime that we don't need a contest to see who is better. The Catholic clergy were in fact terribly persecuted in German and Poland by the Nazi regime, hundreds of priests being killed in Dachau alone. This doesn't take away the horrors that others suffered nor allow us to somehow abstract from them just because "our tribe suffered more".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dachau_concentration_camp

Copernicus himself was a Catholic priest and a Canon. The first opposition to his works was actually from Protestant thinkers.

It is also lazy thinking to say that since it is approved by an institution it must be good.

It isn't even really a theory anymore:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIgi7KPl6tw

There is something already in place with the 'telegra.ph' site, which is connected with Telegram I believe:

https://telegra.ph

https://telegra.ph/api

Thank you for these. The First [0] link looks particularly interesting.

Yes, the phone has to be connected to the internet for it to work. It says so in the documentation, and on the very first page "To use the Signal desktop app, Signal must first be installed on your phone."

The article doesn't actually answer the question. How many kilometers and what is the depth of the sound channel? Where does the pressure/temperaure ratio cause sound to difract?

After reading such an article I feel none the wiser, as the words are barely defined and no specifics given. Is there anywhere else to find better info?

Fool The reason why the seven stars are no more than seven is a pretty reason.

KING LEAR

    Because they are not eight?

Fool

    Yes, indeed: thou wouldst make a good fool.

(Shakespeare, /King Lear/, I, v)

Has Emacs ever been ported to Plan9 and if not how difficult would it be?

Actually the Romans counted their months beginning with March:

March (1) April (2) May (3) ... July (5) (named after Julius Caesar) August (6) (named after Augustus) September (7) ... etc.

The reason being in the ancient world all serious activity begins in the spring, especially war campaigns which were to be under the aegis of the god Mars, from which the name of the month.

Note that when we have a leap year we add the extra day to the end of the Roman year, that is at the end of February which is the last month of the year.

More precisely, we duplicate the sixth of the calends of March. This is why in French the leap year is called 'bisextile'.

Has any witness ever been convicted? There are so many witnesses that give completely false information that is later shown to be a lie. Has there any been a case of prosecuting such lies? Without prosecution it is all just empty threats and there is no real incentive to speak the truth.

At the last hearing, for instance, Jack Dorsey said that they do not shadow ban, but later pictures appeared of their administrative interface and certainly that capacity was there. An outright lie and yet he isn't even interrogated on this. Wouldn't there be arrests and trials if it truly was a federal crime?

I think it is something to do with this information:

https://twitter.com/HawleyMO/status/1328461277971288067?s=20

Josh Hawley is a US Senator for Missouri. Supposedly he will ask questions about his information.

I wonder if it is something to do with this information:

https://twitter.com/HawleyMO/status/1328461277971288067?s=20

Josh Hawley is a US Senator for Missouri.

There is a special mode for looking for files called "Dired". It is very powerful, especially with the extensions. This link is a good introduction to it:

http://pragmaticemacs.com/emacs/dired-marking-copying-moving...

An interesting article concerning the election results from a data analyst.

The best I've found is emacs picture-mode.

https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Ba...

Here is a good summary:

http://ergoemacs.org/emacs/emacs_ascii_diagram.html

I believe it was "Eight Megabytes And Constantly Swapping", or so the acronym was jokingly in tbose days.

Looking at this from an Assembler point of view, isn't everything really just a GOTO?

Instruction Register + 1 = GOTO next memory location

If A then B = Branch if equal = GOTO ADDR B

call function = put currebt address in stack and GOTO this address, then GOTO address on stack.

It seems to me that it is just GOTO all the way down. In fact there really is nothing else but Memory and GOTO.

Sort of ironic that the very foundations of machine computing is not a very good idea....

Anyone looking for a browser project that disables these add-ons should look at the 'waterfox project'.

https://www.waterfoxproject.org/

Full discloser: I use waterfox as a renderer for conkeror [http://www.conkeror.org/].

Just my humble opinion, but I think the loss of the circus will actually not be a great help to the conservation of these wonderful animals.

Elephants are in the public imagination largely due to the circus and the zoo. We like elephants because we can actually go and see them, which makes us want to keep them around. No one really does anything [donate, protest] about certain endangered species, like the Saola because they aren't in the public eye. Elephants, rhinoceros and Tigers have very extensive programs to protect them, even large national parks, because there is large public support for their conservation. The panda likewise would simply be a curiosity and evolutionary dead end if it wasn't for human intervention.

Once the public doesn't even know what an elephant looks like, the public support will diminish. Certainly there has been many abuses in the circus [like in many other things human beings do], but I just hope that people don't forget about the elephants. I would say that one of the reasons that they haven't been hunted to extinction was due to the fact that many children remember with fondness these wonderful animals, and that contact they had with them was from the circus.

It wouldn't take much to bring this to WASM:

http://manuels.github.io/texlive.js/

See previous story: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5083361

The actually TeX binary is actually quite small - it is little more than a macro processor. The other packages could actually be loaded on demand and kept in a local cache.

Probably by concentrating more on the product than on politics.

Well yes it will work after booting, but you usually want your computer to do a bit more than boot.

No machine works perfectly after booting, as the machine is just an instrument to do some WORK. It is the nature of the work that means I have to change the instrument from time to time. FreeBSD, being an open system with a detailed manual allows me to change the machine easily and in a determined manner.

I still haven't figured out how to change many fundamental things on Windows, as it is designed to keep these options hidden from the user.

There are trade-offs for each system. For users who want the power of doing the things how they want to [within limits], FreeBSD is great. If you just want to play Counter-Strike after installing it, well, you can buy another machine for doing that.

But latex and word are usually for printing a document. For something that will later be printed, you would want some sort of control over the actual look as the appearance is a large part of what is being communicated. Printing is also much more expensive than sending electrons so you would expect a much more developed medium for this.

I have never printed an email in my life. The appearance of the text is not essential to what is being communicated. Here a certain consistency is more important that variety - or rather the variety comes through the vocabulary and written expressions, not the font shape.

The same could be said for IM clients or IRC. Except for a few minor tweaks such as html links there is no real need for text formatting in these mediums, and very few clients even make the effort to do this.

Aristotle put it this way:

Science is the knowing of things by their causes. Science is the putting into knowledge what is in reality.

Engineering [which he would call techne, from which we get the word 'technology'] is the art of putting ideas into reality. It is putting what is in our knowledge into the real world.

Thus they are perfectly complementary things, one bringing the world into ideas, the other ideas into the world.

This is more a sign of the sluggishness of the legal system to follow the reality. More people use email now than regular mail, even for official things. Most companies even accept a pdf of a signed contract as an attachment these days.

The thing is though, if email was treated in a way similar to Federal mail, the whole debate about encryption and due process could be handled by laws that already protect privacy. For some strange reason, because it uses a computer, we lose many fundmental rights that we already had with Federal mail. In a certain way email is a service so fundamental to society now, that it becomes a necessary utility - so many things can't be done without an email address today.