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by gaxun 7y ago
Sure. - On page 715 of Volume 4A, he had something like \`a when he meant to have just à. - In Volume 1, Fascicle 1, there is a convention that the "main" entry point of an MMIX program begins at LOC #100. The convention is estab
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by gaxun 7y ago
Nice to see multiple of us are on here. > I imagine most of these checks (definitely all $7 of mine) The 0x$2.00 check I got from 10 Feb 2020 was for one typographical item in Volume 4A and one pedagogical improvement in Volume 1, Fascic
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by gaxun 7y ago
> when's the last time Knuth wrote a check for TAOCP? Pretty recently. I just got one in the mail today.
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by gaxun 8y ago
The author should have written to Donald Knuth with an interview request for this piece. It would have added something special beyond just repeating what's already visible on his website. I wrote to Professor Knuth about a project I di
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by gaxun 8y ago
Indeed. Web browsers are generally free to use and there are several serious contenders and many less popular ones. So the main thing they should be competing on is user experience . But it seems to me that browsers frequently fail to deli
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by gaxun 9y ago
> hurdle of setting up team repositories with safe credential management...like for any kind of collaboration Identity continues to be the key selling point of keybase. I'm excited by this. I can keep clones of my private repositor
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by gaxun 9y ago
I spent some time attempting to work with the W3C Web Annotation Data Model. That data model is serialized as JSON-LD. After spending about 50 hours reading the documents and attempting to implement some of it, I have a general idea what JS
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by gaxun 9y ago
I've been trying out this extension for a few days. What I would really like to see from this extension is a 1-click way to sign any message I'm writing, anywhere on the internet. Along with that would be the ability to verify tha
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by gaxun 10y ago
> Really, what a robust commentary system needs is to map many comments to many units of text This is actually built into this specification. From the Web Annotation Data Model [0]: - Annotations have 0 or more Bodies. - Annotation
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by gaxun 10y ago
I have posted a couple things related to this but never finished a complete summary of my thoughts. These two attempts come close: In [0], I shared some really basic thoughts about how this could be done by users of a particular VCS packag
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by gaxun 10y ago
Thank you for the explanation. This has been my only experience with the W3C system and as an outsider it was very intimidating. I'm certainly willing to accept the idea that I wasn't going about things the right way or understa
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by gaxun 10y ago
> there's nothing in the spec that prohibits extensions to the set of fields Correct. But since it has all this "JSON-LD" stuff baked in, you need to also carefully define and publish the extra fields.
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by gaxun 10y ago
I tried emailing two of the names listed at the time, for two different purposes. I got a little bit of a response from one, nothing from the other. I read the "rules" for W3C groups and in order to actually participate you need t
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by gaxun 10y ago
As I mentioned in another comment, these tests can be trivially passed. You just paste in some JSON data. To pass "all" the tests you actually only need to implement a small handful of the fields. The rest of the tests are quali
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by gaxun 10y ago
There is no built-in detection of content changes in the standard, but it is designed to be potentially robust to changes. It depends what type of specifier you use. The data model provides a number of specifier types. A "text positi
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by gaxun 10y ago
That would be up to the endpoints hosting annotations. They would need to build anti-spam or reputation into their server system. Not part of the specification.
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by gaxun 10y ago
> Is anyone using these? The blog post is put out by a company I've never heard of I spent time trying to figure out if hypothes.is even uses the protocol and data model in their own software. I'm not confident enough in my an
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by gaxun 10y ago
I'm not sure where else to complain so I will just leave this example here. I was frustrated reading the specification because it contradicts itself. The data model has a required field called `id` which is an IRI (like a URI) that is
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by gaxun 10y ago
Read the W3C Recommendations for the protocol and data model. Neither has any mention whatsoever of a notification or alert: https://www.w3.org/TR/annotation-protocol/ https://www.w3.org/TR/a
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by gaxun 10y ago
I spent about 40 hours in December and January implementing a browser extension for Chrome and a server that speak the web annotation protocol and use the web annotation data model in this specification. It was very easy to pass the tests t
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Output – What is my ideal job?(gaxun.net)
2 points by gaxun 10y ago|0 comments
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by gaxun 10y ago
I have been drafting an 'Ideas' post about the following idea, but it's not done yet and this looks like as good a place as any to look for some early feedback. This might not have as much clarity as I'd like. The gener
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by gaxun 10y ago
I'm reading the page on how the distributed bug tracking works. I've heard of Fossil before but never dug too deeply. > But if a timestamp on a ticket change artifact is off by months or years, it can seriously confuse the rep
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git-issue – Track issues within Git repositories(gaxun.net)
5 points by gaxun 10y ago|1 comments
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by gaxun 10y ago
You can also call me a hypocrite. My MX records point to Google and my A record points to gitlab.com's GitLab Pages. I'm actually not brave enough to open a few public ports on a server I own and manage and drive traffic there.
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by gaxun 10y ago
Just to be clear up front, my site is actively trying to be a demonstration of the ideas I outlined in the above post, in addition to being an actual site. It's still a work in progress and I'm letting it evolve piece by piece.
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by gaxun 10y ago
My "social network" is the internet. I can control where my domain resolves and I can serve content over HTTP and handle email via SMTP. Anyone can link to my site from whatever social network they use. I may or may not be able t
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Site Navigation – I just want to get back home(gaxun.net)
2 points by gaxun 10y ago|0 comments
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by gaxun 10y ago
> simpler hardware that an individual could completely understand Our hardware now is so much more complex, what has it gained us? The quick answer is performance, but is it true? What about correctness? Hard to prove either way, but my
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by gaxun 10y ago
You've just made my day. I've had some ideas brewing on this topic for years. It is now at the top of my reading list....along with the other suggestions in this topic. > Would love to see Knuth's Challenge setup in a re

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