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mmplxx

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    Comment #48268778

    Substitute technology for religion and he's probably one of the least authorized persons to question this.

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    Comment #48241021

    Then it takes 100 billion people and their knowledge and experience plus 20 years to generate an intelligent person.

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    Comment #47626333

    The $10/month plan offers a quite limited number of tokens for advanced models. And if you are not careful and set the model to Auto it will quickly deplete them.

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    Comment #45234461

    > Ahhh you stole my idea lol There are some time traveling products that might help you fix that.

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    Comment #44150044

    Also the music, it has an impressive original soundtrack, I love how they play with opening variations.

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    Comment #43109157

    Plus ad hoc markdown extensions, Lua plugins, ... For me it's Typst.

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    Comment #39759465

    > but C++ hasn’t replaced C, Rust hasn’t replaced C++, Typst is unlikely to replace LaTeX. Weird conclusion, because LaTeX has mostly replaced TeX. There is a nice symmetry here: C…

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    Comment #39759418

    I would say that the TeX language was designed for the final user to add the "last mile", not for piling layers of macrosubstitution on top of something akin to lambda calculus. As…

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    Comment #39759401

    I would say that the TeX language was designed for the final user to add the "last mile", not for piling layers of macrosubstitution on top of something akin to lambda calculus. As…

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    Comment #39759343

    Nice in theory, in practice you have LaTeX tools with synctex, command, environment and references autocompletion, live math preview, proper syntax highlighting, jump to error line…

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    Comment #39759221

    Probably not as developed as microtype, but they have overhang, kerning and ligatures: https://typst.app/docs/reference/text/text

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    Comment #39759168

    A legitimate concern given that Typst is still maturing. But I have at least one thing to say in its favour: you can lock the version of packages that you import. The only reason L…

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    Comment #37877063

    The will to assign real numbers to degrees of belief is the controversial assumption. Converted bayesians tend to gloss over this fact. Many, as in a sibling comment, state that ML…

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    Comment #37697183

    I apologize for having been using this word as a label to group my bookmarks of books, articles, music, videos and movies for years.

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    Comment #34043997

    I would say that Messi is gloriously messy.

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    Comment #33973708

    It indeed tastes horribly to me too, but I just can't help drinking it around five times a day.

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    Comment #33973621

    I have been drinking too much mate for such a long time that I can only relate it to withdrawal symptoms at this point :)

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    Comment #33881514

    Creative how? Can you expand on that?

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    Comment #33628979

    > just give the thing decades of emails and giant PDF folders and make sense of it. just?

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    Comment #33617755

    I do the same, but also manually export takeouts every month or so with the most important stuff. And every once in a while I create a named revision for my most important docs (wh…

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    Comment #33586160

    You sound as if your premise were that all there is to do is reproduce.

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    Comment #33568258

    But why would you buy them if they were free? Steve Jobs would have just taken the entire lot.

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    Comment #33541502

    The title is clickbaity, as far as I can see you still can disable chat and meet in order to get rid of the left bar, which is pretty close to the old design, it makes sense that t…

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    Comment #33499334

    I'm still trying to make up my mind about all this, but it's likely that the fact that many servers are running subject to the same set of rules may increase competition since serv…

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    Comment #33499113

    Nobody really knows, but we can safely say that a distributed ledger has to be part of the solution.