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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 -

In other news, Dracula testifies against Frankenstein.
Re:Bram Moolenaar Passed Away on Saturday August 05, 2023 @07:14PM (#37017152)
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.
Wake me up when they reach code Blackwatch Plaid.
The guy lives in Arizona. He’d better not have his sunglasses too far away.
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.