mickmcq
Re:Trump DOJ Threatens Wikipedia's Nonprofit Status over Alleged 'Prop...
on Sunday April 27, 2025 @10:32AM (#43812223)
Manhattan Institute lists Betsy DeVos on its Board of Trustees.
Re:Literate Programming in Quarto
on Sunday February 09, 2025 @10:38PM (#42996670)
The article doesn't mention a key aspect of literate programming: publishing a code chunk at a different point in the document than where it is executed. This is possible in Quarto and should probably be added to that article for completeness. An answer on [stack overflow](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/76278117/how-to-achieve-...) explains how to do so.
Re:Microsoft donates the Mono Project to the Wine team
on Wednesday August 28, 2024 @11:40AM (#41380718)
My impression is that TinyTeX downloads required packages on the fly and can be quite tiny if you don’t use many packages.
Re:AI cheating is destroying higher education
on Saturday July 06, 2024 @06:12PM (#40893744)
Any teacher who simply forbids the use of ChatGPT is living in a fantasy world.
Source: I teach for a living.
Re:Markdown: An effective tool for LLM interaction
on Saturday July 06, 2024 @05:29PM (#40893460)
A couple of notes on the blog post: the example
echo "Please explain this code: $(cat some_class.py)" | mark
needs a dash at the end to work correctly. Also, it doesn't output pandoc-flavored markdown (blank lines before headings and code chunks) unless I specifically ask it to, as in:
echo "Please explain this code, using pandoc-flavored markdown, leaving a blank line before headings and code chunks: $(cat some_class.py)" | mark -
Re:Microsoft CEO Testifies That Google’s Power in Search Is Ubiquitous
on Tuesday October 03, 2023 @11:49AM (#37753484)
In other news, Dracula testifies against Frankenstein.
Re:Bram Moolenaar Passed Away
on Saturday August 05, 2023 @07:14PM (#37017152)
Done €100 to https://iccf-holland.org/
Re:Bram Moolenaar Passed Away
on Saturday August 05, 2023 @10:35AM (#37012404)
I am so sorry to hear this. I will make a contribution today in his memory.
Re:A New Chat Bot Is a ‘Code Red’ for Google’s Search Business
on Friday December 23, 2022 @11:56PM (#34114117)
Wake me up when they reach code Blackwatch Plaid.
Re:A vid in which Vim saves me hours and hundreds of clicks (2018) [vi...
on Tuesday December 13, 2022 @01:31PM (#33973529)
The guy lives in Arizona. He’d better not have his sunglasses too far away.
Re:Albert Pyun, Director of ‘Cyborg,’ ‘Nemesis’ and ‘Captain America,’...
on Sunday November 27, 2022 @12:37PM (#33764780)
sad news … the first Nemesis picture remains one of my scfi faves … I recall an interview in which Tim Thomerson explained Pyun’s work style. He said that he worked 20 hours a day and absorbed popular culture like a sponge.
Re:Brian Kernighan adds Unicode support to Awk
on Saturday August 20, 2022 @06:18PM (#32535647)
There is a TeX distribution that does what you say, TinyTeX. For some reason it is obscure and only really used by R and R Studio users. That may be because it is used to render R Markdown documents to pdf.