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Pinus commented on Learn LaTeX in 30 Minutes overleaf.com/learn/latex/... · Posted by u/tzury

I wrote three books with LateX. I hate this language with the intensity of a thousand suns. I hope Typst will be able to take over.

Pinus · a day ago

You take a language designed around the limitations of 1970’s computers and the absence of limitations of Donald Knuth’s brain, and then you build a document system on top of that. What could possibly go wrong? =)

Pinus commented on Can you take an ox to Oxford? alexwlchan.net/2025/ox-in... · Posted by u/surprisetalk

Pinus · a month ago

Meanwhile, Cambridge has, or at least had a few years ago, at least one combined pedestrian/cattle tunnel (there was a fence down the middle!) under a major road.

Pinus commented on 'Calvin and Hobbes' at 40 npr.org/2025/11/18/nx-s1-... · Posted by u/mooreds

Pinus · a month ago

If you want something to hang on your wall, an original strip is coming up for auction in Stockholm more or less as I write. The bid is currently at over 1 MSEK (100kUSD)... https://auctionet.com/sv/events/891-the-modern-art-design-sa...

Pinus commented on NaN, the not-a-number number that isn't NaN piccalil.li/blog/nan-the-... · Posted by u/tobr

wodenokoto · 2 months ago

My gut reaction is that both NaN == NaN and NaN != NaN should be false, it to put it another way, NaN != NaN returns True was a surprise to me.

Does Numpy do the same? That’s where I usually meet NaN.

Pinus · 2 months ago

For the built-in float type in Python, the behaviour is a bit funny:

    >>> nan=float('nan')
    >>> a=[nan]
    >>> nan in a
    True
    >>> any(nan==x for x in a)
    False

(Because the `in` operator assumes that identity implies equality...)

Pinus commented on How to Enter a City Like a King worldhistory.substack.com... · Posted by u/crescit_eundo

Pinus · 2 months ago

I thought there was something about the king of the UK having to ask permission to enter the City of London, but apparently that is a misunderstanding (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_of_London_Corporation#Tem...). Pity, it would have been a good story of even monarchy bowing to finance! =)

Pinus commented on Scheme Reports at Fifty crumbles.blog/posts/2025-... · Posted by u/djwatson24

michaelcampbell · 2 months ago

Tangent, but wow did I find the typography and font-face on that blog post pleasant to read.

Pinus · 2 months ago

I thought "this feels like Univers" when I saw the text. A quick check, and it turned out to be URW Classic Sans, a font that I had not heard about, but which is apparently a Univers clone. (Not to be confused with URW Classico, which is more like Optima. I also wonder how it relates to U001, another URW clone of Univers... just different names? U001 comes, or used to come at least, with GhostPCL under a non-commercial licence.)

Pinus commented on MAML – A new configuration language maml.dev/... · Posted by u/birdculture

Pinus · 2 months ago

My IT department blocks me from seeing this page. I suppose they wish to preserve my sanity, by shielding me from yet another config-language spec. =)

Pinus commented on "Your" vs. "My" in user interfaces adamsilver.io/blog/your-v... · Posted by u/Twixes

Pinus · 3 months ago

This gets extra fun when you have a product which is actually named "My Card" (which, of course, is a bad idea to begin with, but...). Is it "Your My Card" or "My My Card"?

French web sites seem to have lost the plot completely. Buttons are sometimes imperative, sometimes infinitive, sometimes first-person present ("J’en profite!"), and probably others...

Pinus commented on Why are anime catgirls blocking my access to the Linux kernel? lock.cmpxchg8b.com/anubis... · Posted by u/taviso

mlyle · 4 months ago

I don't trip over CloudFlare except when in a weird VPN, and then it always gets out of my way after the challenge.

Anubis screws with me a lot, and often doesn't work.

Pinus · 4 months ago

I’m planning a trip to France right now, and it seems like half the websites in that country (for example, ratp.fr for Paris public transport info) require me to check a CloudFlare checkbox to promise that I am a human. And of those that don’t, quite a few just plain lock me out...

Pinus commented on UN report finds UN reports are not widely read reuters.com/world/un-repo... · Posted by u/anjneymidha

michaeldoron · 5 months ago

The title reads like an Onion article

Pinus · 5 months ago

Not quite the level of the 2012 IgNobel litterature price, which went to "The US Government General Accountability Office, for issuing a report about reports about reports that recommends the preparation of a report about the report about reports about reports."

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