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maxnoe commented on TeX Live 2026 is available for download now tug.org/texlive/acquire.h... · Posted by u/jithinraj

xvilka · 7 days ago

I wonder what's the status of LaTeX 3[1][2]. Also, it would be nice to have an automation in the style of Tectonic[3][4] (which looks like a dead project itself) out of the box.

[1] https://www.latex-project.org/latex3/

[2] https://github.com/latex3/latex3

[3] http://tectonic-typesetting.github.io/

[4] https://github.com/tectonic-typesetting/tectonic/

maxnoe · 7 days ago

Ever tried latexmk for the automation?

maxnoe commented on Chained Assignment in Python Bytecode loriculus.org/blog/python... · Posted by u/wenderen

jp57 · 23 days ago

The author's expectations seem strange. Take another example:

    a = b = random.random()

I would not expect a and b to get different values. It would be very strange if using `[]` had different behavior than a function call in the same place. Am I out of step here?

maxnoe · 23 days ago

But this exact example is different, because the critical step of mutation is missing.

The initial line is the same, but:

    a = b = random.random()
    a += 1
    a == b # False

Only because floats are immutable and thus an implicit copy is made and lists are mutable so the same mutable instance is pointed to by both names.

This talk still applies despite its age: https://youtu.be/_AEJHKGk9ns?si=q5HjMOM9QS3_bFzH

maxnoe commented on String theory can now describe a universe that has dark energy? quantamagazine.org/string... · Posted by u/nsoonhui

squeefers · 2 months ago

String theory does not work with de-Sitter spaces, only with anti de-Sitter spaces. Science has proved we are living in a de-Sitter space. String theory cannot be true.

maxnoe · 2 months ago

Science never proves a positive.

You can only disprove.

The only way to prove a positive if there is a finite number of possibilities and you have disproven all but one. But even then, someone could conceivably come up with an alternate description that preserves the current understanding but makes additional predictions or is a simpler model making the same.

As Feyman said: "We can never know if we are right, we can only be certain if we are wrong".

maxnoe commented on Astrophotography visibility plotting and planning tool airmass.org/... · Posted by u/NKosmatos

maxnoe · 2 months ago

If you are more into doing this locally than using a Webservice, have a look at astroplan based on astropy.

https://astroplan.readthedocs.io/en/stable/

maxnoe commented on Some ecologists fear their field is losing touch with nature nature.com/articles/d4158... · Posted by u/Growtika

verisimi · 2 months ago

> I would be immensely skeptical that field work is ever going away. There may be aspects of truth in this around cost of travel, risk, seniority.

Why be sceptical? The model will answer consistently, inconvenient truths won't get in the way.

maxnoe · 2 months ago

If it disagrees with experiment, it's wrong.

https://youtu.be/EYPapE-3FRw?si=LjSNyltYaVUY5bzX

maxnoe commented on Time in C++: Inter-Clock Conversions, Epochs, and Durations sandordargo.com/blog/2025... · Posted by u/ibobev

loeg · 2 months ago

> The periodicity does have to be a known compile-time ratio expressible as a fraction of seconds

Right, that's the problem I'm describing.

> or just pick one (or several) std::chrono base durations such as standardizing on nanoseconds, and then just count floating-point ticks.

None of this really fits well -- the idea is to count in integer ticks (invariant cycles), without doing expensive division or floating point math. It's like steady clock, but in ticks instead of nanos.

maxnoe · 2 months ago

But on any modern CPU, clock speed won't be constant. It's not compile time constant, nor a runtime constant. Its variable over time. You'd have to record the clock speed over time and the ticks, so why not just record actual time?

maxnoe commented on Avoid UUID Version 4 Primary Keys in Postgres andyatkinson.com/avoid-uu... · Posted by u/pil0u

maxnoe · 3 months ago

Would this argument still apply if I need to store a uuidv4 anyway in the table?

And I'd likely want a unique constraint on that?

maxnoe commented on Rubio stages font coup: Times New Roman ousts Calibri reuters.com/world/us/rubi... · Posted by u/italophil

648373628229 · 3 months ago

What's wrong with Fraktur?

maxnoe · 3 months ago

Fraktur is often associated with the German far right, because it's a mostly German thing that nationalists can hang on to.

Funnily enough, it was Goebbels who banned it and required everyone to change to Latin scripts.

maxnoe commented on Python Data Science Handbook jakevdp.github.io/PythonD... · Posted by u/cl3misch

sschnei8 · 3 months ago

Interesting choice of Pandas in this day and age. Maybe he’s after imparting general concepts that you could apply to any tabular data manipulator rather than selecting for the latest shiny tool.

maxnoe · 3 months ago

The book is quite old actually, not sure if "this day and age" still applies to it

maxnoe commented on CERN Council reviews feasibility study for a next-generation collider home.cern/news/press-rele... · Posted by u/elashri

mikebonnell · 4 months ago

Would this be a different loop, but connected to LHC or is this a new standalone loop where they would need to find a locale to build it underground?

maxnoe · 4 months ago

Completely new tunnel, but it will be connected to LHC, as they will use LHC to pre accelerate the particles.

Almost all accelerators built at CERN are still active and are a chain of pre-accelerator for LHC now:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_Hadron_Collider#/media/F...

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