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Re:Please don't force dark mode on Monday January 20, 2025 @10:32AM (#42769667)
> the dark mode people are wrong

What is that supposed to mean? Some people find it more pleasant to read on a dark background (e.g. because of photophobia), some prefer it for aesthetic reasons (e.g. for a site about space exploration), how is that ‘wrong’?

Re:Why I Prefer RST to Markdown on Wednesday July 31, 2024 @03:35PM (#41122642)
In LaTeX you also clearly separate structure and typesetting: you don't write \noindent\textbf{Introduction}\nobreak\medskip or whatever, but simply \section{Introduction}

Macros are also pretty easy to define \newcommand\important[1]{\textcolor{red}{#1}}

And of course it has first-class Unicode support

Re:Typst: An easy to learn alternative for LaTex on Sunday July 21, 2024 @09:04AM (#41024790)
I didn't know about math classes, thank you for the reference

The issue I have with delimiters is that there is no option for "big", but only for "140%" or whatever, making it harder to be consistent Someone created an issue on this on GitHub if I remember correctly

And automatically chosen sizes are often too large

Re:Typst: An easy to learn alternative for LaTex on Saturday July 20, 2024 @03:55PM (#41019246)
The main problem I have with Typst compared with LaTeX is that it doesn't handle basic fine typographic features, such as the different types of spacing in mathematical mode (mathop, mathbin, mathrel, etc.) or the size of delimiters (big, bigg, etc.)
Re:OpenAI releases GPT For All (GPT-4o) on Monday May 13, 2024 @02:14PM (#40346427)
4o does not stand for ‘for all’:

> GPT-4o (“o” for “omni”) is our most advanced model. It is multimodal (accepting text or image inputs and outputting text), and it has the same high intelligence as GPT-4 Turbo but is much more efficient—it generates text 2x faster and is 50% cheaper. [1]

[1]: https://platform.openai.com/docs/models/gpt-4o

Re:Archival with a universal virtual computer (2014) on Sunday March 24, 2024 @02:34PM (#39809172)
How can we keep Nintendo games playable and WordPerfect 5.1 files readable in the 23rd century?

Kragen Javier Sitaker, 2014-06-29

Re:Show HN: Try my new Bash prompt on Friday August 04, 2023 @04:35AM (#36997155)
Can you add a link to a screenshot?
Re:Show HN: This blog post shows its Hacker News score on Saturday July 29, 2023 @07:04AM (#36918988)
The design for the upvote count looks great!
Re:KernType – A Letter Spacing Game on Thursday July 27, 2023 @08:37AM (#36892521)
Personally, I got 90/100, I also have experience with TeX and I've designed a few fonts
Since you're not increasing the number of variables, it seems to me that the problem of finding the initial Boolean formula (or an even simpler version of it) is fairly straightforward. Have you done any tests along these lines?