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jxy commented on Crunch – a Scheme compiler with a minimal runtime   more-magic.net/posts/crun... · Posted by u/sjamaan
jxy · a year ago
> No support for first class continuations

I'm not sure about how people would feel about this. I have mixed feelings. It feels like a loss of many things. What are the gains from ditching continuations?

jxy commented on LaTeX.css – Make your website look like a LaTeX document   latex.vercel.app/... · Posted by u/OuterVale
WillAdams · a year ago
A good example of this is Bertrand Russell's _Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy_:

https://courses.umass.edu/klement/imp/

which is available in a number of sizes _and_ has the LaTeX source available showing how the various sizes are arrived at.

jxy · a year ago
The HTML version is quite nice. Do you know how they did the LaTeX to html conversion?
jxy commented on Character amnesia in China   globalchinapulse.net/char... · Posted by u/nabla9
almaight · a year ago
This is not true. If you need to type on your phone, everyone needs to know that the mainland used the Wubi input method, which is Katakana, and now uses Pinyin typing. Taiwan has always used the original Katakana input method. Pinyin typing was invented later.
jxy commented on The Anvil Text Editor   anvil-editor.net/... · Posted by u/bwidlar
imiric · a year ago
This is very interesting, and it's great to see new editors.

But honestly I never got the fascination for the Acme editor. It seems powerful, but relying on mouse input is limiting, slow and imprecise. I'd much rather control my editor using the infinite key combinations of the keyboard I'm already typing on, which is much more comfortable, accurate and faster. It also builds muscle memory that can never be built with an analog input method like the mouse.

Multi-pane editing is also not very useful beyond a single vertical or horizontal split. For anything more complex, a tiling window manager is a more versatile tool that works for any app.

To enable these two functionalities UI elements need to be rendered, which clutters up the UI and takes up considerable screen real-estate. When working in a buffer and keyboard-oriented editor like Vim or Emacs, the screen only needs to show the content itself, which is a much more pleasant environment to work in.

But maybe I'm misunderstanding the benefits of the Acme workflow, and I honestly haven't given it a thorough try, so I'd be happy to read counterpoints.

BTW, I love the font Anvil uses! Is it available somewhere to download?

jxy · a year ago
mouse or keyboard is really just a preference. you could do mouse 1 sweep-select 2-3 in one window, and move to another mouse 1-3, and move to another do mouse 1-3, ... Or you could do, in case of vi, y$ (or other movements), ^w w (or other way to select other window), (move your cursor) p, ^w w, (move your cursor) p, ... Though I'm biased, because I feel it's much easier to move my mouse than do one of wWbBeE^$fFtThjkl to move my cursor, even though it is a lot faster and efficient to only move a few of my fingers than my whole arm.

the font is likely Go Font, the proportional one

jxy commented on Grandmaster-level chess without search   github.com/google-deepmin... · Posted by u/lawrenceyan
chvid · a year ago
If anything it demonstrates the limits of NN. A human brain can learn based on far fewer examples.
jxy · a year ago
Nature's evolution algorithm took millions of years to find the architecture and the base model, which then takes decades to be fine tuned to be able to form this opinion.
jxy commented on Cat memes went viral 100 years ago   bbc.com/future/article/20... · Posted by u/zdw
TheRealPomax · a year ago
Linguistic note: neither "meme" (in the modern sense, not the Dawkins sense) nor "going viral" existed 20 years ago, let alone 100 years. The nature of how culture spread makes both words wildly inapplicable, even if the underlying idea is somewhat similar.
jxy · a year ago
from OED:

the modern sense of "meme"

> 2. An image, video, piece of text, etc., typically humorous in nature, that is copied and spread rapidly by internet users, often with slight variations. Also with modifying word, as internet meme, etc.

> 1998

> The next thing you know, his friends have forwarded it [sc. an animation of a dancing baby] on and it's become a net meme.

> Sci. & Technol. Week (transcript of CNN TV programme) (Nexis) 24 January

the modern sense of "viral"

> Chiefly Marketing. Of, designating, or involving the rapid spread of information (esp. about a product or service) amongst customers by word of mouth, e-mail, etc. to go viral: to propagate in such a manner; to (be) spread widely and rapidly.

> 1989

> The staff almost unanimously voted with their feet as long waiting lists developed for use of the Macintoshes... ‘It's viral marketing. You get one or two in and they spread throughout the company.’

> PC User (Nexis) 27 September 31

Edit: format

jxy commented on macOS Sequoia is available today   apple.com/newsroom/2024/0... · Posted by u/mfiguiere
krelas · a year ago
Here’s one for HN readers, you can now find jq in /usr/bin/ in Sequoia.
jxy · a year ago
interesting

    % /usr/bin/jq --version
    jq-1.6-159-apple-gcff5336-dirty

jxy commented on CIEL Is an Extended Lisp   ciel-lang.org/... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti
amelius · a year ago
What's wrong with Ctrl+Z?
jxy · a year ago
so it wouldn't require a shell that supports job control?
jxy commented on Taskwarrior – CLI Task Management   taskwarrior.org/... · Posted by u/httbs
jxy · a year ago
How does taskwarrior deal with recurring tasks now? Like tasks that have a due date recur every two weeks, or tasks that have a due date always two weeks after done.

u/jxy

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