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alphabeta2024 commented on What TeX Gets Right   newton.cx/~peter/2024/wha... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti
notPlancha · a year ago
> Now, it’s certainly possible that one could develop a new, generative typesetting language that captures the virtues that I’ve discussed above and is free of TeX’s historical baggage.

Like typst?

alphabeta2024 · a year ago
typst still gets a lot of things wrong.
alphabeta2024 commented on Typst: An easy to learn alternative for LaTex   github.com/typst/typst... · Posted by u/vogu66
Kinrany · a year ago
Someone mentioned that pandoc works decently for this.
alphabeta2024 · a year ago
It does not.
alphabeta2024 commented on AMD to buy Silo AI for $665M   ft.com/content/7b8d2057-2... · Posted by u/helsinkiandrew
light_hue_1 · a year ago
> Nvidia also spends a metric shit ton of money to make sure professors use and teach on their platform.

Nah. People teach what they use because that's what's easy.

alphabeta2024 · a year ago
You get free access to hardware for courses if you teach CUDA courses.
alphabeta2024 commented on I was at AMD in the mid-late 2000s helping design CPU/APU/GPUs   twitter.com/mohapatrahema... · Posted by u/jxub
Apreche · a year ago
I predicted years ago they would make a CPU and you would be able to buy an All-NVidia PC. I think the reason that hasn't happened is because of the failed purchase of ARM. And looking at the market dominance of NVidia, it seems they were right to block that acquisition.
alphabeta2024 · a year ago
Supercomputers are now Nvidia-only with Grace Hopper chips.
alphabeta2024 commented on I was at AMD in the mid-late 2000s helping design CPU/APU/GPUs   twitter.com/mohapatrahema... · Posted by u/jxub
luyu_wu · a year ago
I'm not sure if you're familiar with CPU history, but this is roughly true. Intel's catchup to multicore offerings was trippy and severely lagged behind AMD. I think it's often forgotten that CPU leadership has fluctuated between different companies many times in the past!
alphabeta2024 · a year ago
The OP is right. Pentium D was a single generation in which Intel offering was worse that Athlon 64 X2 . But Intel quickly shifted to Core 2 Duo architecture and it was much better than AMD.
alphabeta2024 commented on Microsoft breached antitrust rules by bundling Teams and Office, EU says   apnews.com/article/micros... · Posted by u/cbg0
genewitch · a year ago
The state of louisiana has a similar issue with their domain servers - if you have an errant client somewhere, anywhere, that has the wrong password (or whatever their IDS thought was 'fishy',) you get locked out of your desktop in the office. for two years my wife had to call State I.T. every morning to get logged in. Her office locked so no need to log out until quittin time.

i was never able to track down what device it was, we reformatted a couple of laptops, wiped a couple phones.

alphabeta2024 · a year ago
That's fucking crazy.
alphabeta2024 commented on Appeals court seems lost on how Internet Archive harms publishers   arstechnica.com/tech-poli... · Posted by u/lando2319
withinboredom · a year ago
To me, it seems like someone got confused with patents, where you share your invention with the world, but claim a monopoly on using it.
alphabeta2024 · a year ago
Even the objective of patients was to disincentivize trade secrets by allowing limited-time monopoly and thereby making knowledge public without destroying the economic incentives.
alphabeta2024 commented on Appeals court seems lost on how Internet Archive harms publishers   arstechnica.com/tech-poli... · Posted by u/lando2319
Zambyte · a year ago
> IA has argued that because copyright law is intended to provide equal access to knowledge, copyright law is better served by allowing IA's lending than by preventing it.

This seems like the opposite of the intent of copyright? How could the intent of granting an artificial monopoly to one party on disseminating information be to provide equal access to knowledge?

alphabeta2024 · a year ago
The whole objective of copyright is to encourage dissemination of knowledge. The idea originally was that by allowing authors some exclusivity over their creations for some years, there would be economic incentives to produce various technical, cultural works. The artificial monopoly is a means to an end, not an end to itself.
alphabeta2024 commented on Microsoft breached antitrust rules by bundling Teams and Office, EU says   apnews.com/article/micros... · Posted by u/cbg0
throwAGIway · a year ago
What if I want to buy a fully integrated, fully bundled install-and-forget OS?

If the EU makes Apple unbundle all the good stuff from macOS I'll finally move to the US.

alphabeta2024 · a year ago
Just use the express setup.
alphabeta2024 commented on Microsoft breached antitrust rules by bundling Teams and Office, EU says   apnews.com/article/micros... · Posted by u/cbg0
xnorswap · a year ago
It auto-runs all the time.

I've got a work laptop with a teams for the work domain which I want.

There's also a completely different copy of teams, "Microsoft teams (Personal)" teams, which I have to close.

Not just every boot, even after I close it manually, I still find it running constantly.

I've no idea what triggers it, but it doesn't seem to obey any startup settings.

alphabeta2024 · a year ago
It fucking autoruns by default on my Linux machine and eventually the only way to prevent it from not auto-running is to remove it. I avoid teams now whenever possible and use a browser session if forced to use teams.

u/alphabeta2024

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