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Customizing chapter styles, page styles, and headings was my sole reason for using the memoir class. I'm probably in the minority, that's true.

That Wikipedia article needs a better screenshot. Otherwise, very interesting. And DESQview/X was X Window System on DOS with pre-emptive multitasking, wow.

For me the memoir class made LaTeX worse. The titlesec package is more customizable, easier to use, and reduced the size of the preamble significantly.

Indeed those are pretty great, but none of those grow _on_ you.

Not really, if you're entering Iranian airspace from the Mediterranean, the Persian Gulf, or Europe, you're flying over either the Zagros Mountains or the Alborz Mountains. Unless …

Iran isn't just central Tehran. Look up the Zagros Mountains and the Alborz Mountains. Or just look at a picture of the northern Tehran skyline, it is at the foot of the Alborz, a …

error: invalid digit '9' in octal constant

Percival Lowell misunderstanding the Italian word “canali”[1] should rank pretty high in terms of similar phenomena and is probably the most impactful example. 1. https://lowell.ed…

From the Microsoft LTSC info: > If you fail to activate this evaluation after installation, or if your evaluation period expires, the desktop background will turn black, you will s…

Touché.

Looks cool, but produce GIFs? Asciinema is text based IIRC. The name is the downside of Asciinema IMO. Can’t help but read it as ASCII enema, which is funny, but not what I want th…

Basically, writing a CS paper in LaTeX using the "alg*" packages (algorithm2e, algorithmicx, algorithms, algpseudocode, algxpar, algpseudocodex, etc.) is living in the ALGO 60 / AL…

The Cray machines looked more like an airport seating area. Or with later models, obstacles in a laser tag arena. While the Thinking Machines with the moving LEDs looked alive, alm…

Yet the Jurassic Park franchise is just as strong as ever. Thinking Machines CM-5 in Jurassic Park (1993): https://www.starringthecomputer.com/appearance.html?f=11&c=1... Jurassic …

The iPhone 8 was peak iPhone. I’m on my second iPhone 8 and am posting from it now. I did also like the original iPhone SE mostly because of the size, but the haptics make the the …

You can be a great X and be completely unknown Where X is any vocation, skill, talent, etc…

I’m confused, is this operating on Emacs’ frames or windows. ** For those here that are not Emacs users these terms mean the opposite of what you’re likely used to.

Actually, you don’t have that right. Most cities ban public nuisance noises such as blasting air horns. You’re mostly free to do things that do not harm others. If you don’t like m…

There’s no argument for the change in the general case. There’s rationalizations, sure. But no euphemisms like “public”, “free software”, “copyleft”, make the change anything less …

WARNING: The Post Millennial is an extremist website. I can’t believe that getting “news” about an extremist group from another extremist organization is a productive way to make s…

Basically the same odds of dying in a car crash over your lifetime. So unless you give up on driving or being a passenger of a car—this is a meaningless risk, and besides that, it …

HN link is not the paper’s title. Also doesn’t seem to be peer reviewed and isn’t even uploaded to a pre-print server like arXiv—literally hosted on GitHub.

Yes. Negatively. Not sure analysis is needed. Algorithmic feeds are fucked and impact you negatively. All of them! You have no real control over what you see, they're ephemeral, no…

Too bad the first program in the article leaks its file descriptor. Memory is but one resource you need to manage. File descriptors are the first oft overlooked resource in a long …