alerque

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by alerque 4d ago
Posting screenshots inside code repositories is hard. The binary asset handling does not belong in the source code tracker, so you end up with either bad repo hygiene or linking external assets inside the README, which is brittle. Also upda
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by alerque 7d ago
If your basic single purposes tools are getting released every other day that might be a bad sign. The latest release being a year old for a tool like this is not something to worry about. As for your claim that "the build is failing&
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by alerque 7d ago
As the one who contributed the autotools build system and CI job for posting source tarballs in various formats, I can assure you it was not "unintentional". Distributing that many different compression formats for the same source
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by alerque 2y ago
This booklet showcases the advancements made in enhancing SILE’s math engine up to version 0.15.7+, along with a critical assessment of its current capabilities and the challenges it faces.
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by alerque 4y ago
True. Edit : I initially said none of the upstream maintainers call it a rewrite, but I was wrong because the original author did in fact use that turn of phrase on several occasions including in the manual and in a talk. I agree though it
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by alerque 4y ago
SILE can also read XML or Markdown. I use it for publishing books from Markdown via Pandoc (there are several paths from Markdown→SILE). And for the record the native SIL syntax resembles TeX at first blush but is actually vastly simpler be
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by alerque 4y ago
Actually it just takes XML as an input format, but depending on your XML you need to provide a class that defines how to typeset each tag. For Docbook SILE has an example class with about 40% of the possible tags defined to something sensib
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by alerque 4y ago
On a scale of LaTeX=0 (absolutely inscrutable) to Rust=10 (holds your hand through the fix) I would say SILE is about a 5. Caveat, I speak as one of the authors. It helpfully traces the location of any problem to an exact location in your d
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by alerque 4y ago
Yes it comes with its own context-free syntax that (despite some surface resemblance to TeX) is quite easy to parse. It can also ingest XML and some other formats.
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by alerque 4y ago
The whole point is you shouldn't have to manually balance columns in a spread. Obviously a round trip from source to output to fiddle with balancing every spread would be tedious. But if you can say "For this content I want to use
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by alerque 4y ago
It is related to bzip2 in the sense of using the Burrows-Wheeler algorithm.
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by alerque 4y ago
GPU's are good at massively parallel tasks. Compression is, almost by definition, not a parallel problem. If you want speed you can break it up into chunks and if you are optimizing from throughput there are gains to be made there. But
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by alerque 7y ago
Do you think I am unfit to moderate the specific site and community I was appointed (and later elected) to moderate? Does any of my history indicate that I did a bad job of that? Has any of my history on any other site on the network been o
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by alerque 7y ago
Thanks, I hope I didn't ruin it just now with all the copy-editing ;-)
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by alerque 7y ago
I have made a substantial rewrite to my post, including adding some context to explain why I used that poem.
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by alerque 7y ago
> we don't really see religion as fundamental to personhood In saying this, you are doing exactly the thing that I've been called a bigot for. You've excluded me from "we" because I do see religion as fundamental
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by alerque 7y ago
Salty eh? Okay. I explicitly noted I wasn't being repressed, but thanks for thinking about me. The way volunteers have been treated is not good, and the rules the company is making are going alienate lots of people. Not the ones they c
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by alerque 7y ago
Anybody can make one. You can make one on your own computer, give the result to your friends, tell them to connect through you as a proxy, and intercept everything. The tricky part is that browsers are hard coded with a list of a few truste
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by alerque 7y ago
Yes, having a root CA certificate like this installed in a client allows the certificate issuer (so in this case KZ government and anything they authorize ISPs to do) to impersonate any and every other domain. So yes, ALL https traffic to a