mgr86

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by mgr86 11d ago
For what its worth, I have had Claude try to name two of my personal projects _Sprout_. One was a dashboard for my Beancount instance, so I thought it cute. But the second time it attempted to name something sprout it was more of a wtf, why
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by mgr86 19d ago
And here I am just having them author org-files for me and them to refer back too. For fun I even ask for DITA sometimes.
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by mgr86 4mo ago
I think semantically this is the perfect choice. Considering the history and intended use of PI. As an aside, I’m still rather annoyed that web components use hyphens. I really thought colon’s and namespaces made perfect sense there.
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by mgr86 4mo ago
The format mainly, I think. Due to loss of a grant and poor market conditions we have shifted our annual meeting with the board to a virtual format. Which gives me less informal time for discussions.
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by mgr86 4mo ago
I work at a nonprofit and the board is largely university librarians. I am asking all of them how have the behavior of their patrons changed in the last five years. How has usage of their subscribed resources changed in the age of AI. They
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by mgr86 8mo ago
Thanks for that update. I had worked with epub production in the past, but it was probably nearly 15 years ago at this point.
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by mgr86 8mo ago
Yes, that is an important point. I guess I was focused mainly on the browser. Which is not the typical way to consume epubs. But you are right that ePubs are essentially packaged XHTML.
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by mgr86 8mo ago
I'd argue XHTML did take off and was very widely adopted for the first 5-10 years of the century.
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by mgr86 9mo ago
I'm a bit miffed about the dash. I wish it was a colon. Then well established XML could be simply name-spaced in, and then either styled with css and enhanced with JS. I suspect it wouldn't be that difficult to write something for
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by mgr86 9mo ago
Wow, they throw some serious spars at these duodecimal people: > the problem is that Latin uses base ten, so bases larger than ten end up with names that put a bit too much of an emphasis on their relationship with decimal: undecimal, du
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by mgr86 9mo ago
wait is your email really username@username.net? I registered java.lang.string (at) gmail back when I was learning java 20+ years ago. Haven't really used it in over a decade though.
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by mgr86 9mo ago
I threw it at archive.is for them. https://archive.is/gW1rO
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by mgr86 10mo ago
yes, it is frustrating. I also am not quite sure what he is referencing and would be interested in trying out cgrep for myself.
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by mgr86 11mo ago
I have seen "AI" in my Dr's office. They have been using it to summarize visits and write after visit notes.
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by mgr86 11mo ago
I think this is a case where I simply don't know enough, but couldn't auto-pilot be a lot easier and safer when adding a new axis? A lot fewer things to run into in the air, and if you could just rise or fall a couple dozen feet t
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by mgr86 1y ago
A small comment for anyone new to xslt. The author references a wildcard rule in the comments [0]. While that is true, they are calling an identity transformation [1]. Identity transformations are very common in xslt. [0] https:/&#x2F
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Ask HN: Are we still writing and reading "tech books" in 2025?
2 points by mgr86 1y ago|5 comments
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by mgr86 1y ago
FWIW, I see your comment. Also late to the thread though. This ruling is being watched at my office. I want to be a bit anonymous, but we've been doing a much more analogue version of some of these things for 75 years. With academics b
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by mgr86 1y ago
Understandable. I work in academic publishing, and while the XML is everywhere crowd is graying, retiring, or even dying :( it still remains an excellent option for document markup. Additionally, a lot of government data produced in the US
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by mgr86 1y ago
Have you considered XML. TEI, for example, is very robust and mature for marking up documents.
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by mgr86 1y ago
oh man, thanks!
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by mgr86 1y ago
Interesting project thanks for sharing. I've casually tried to track down a voice in weather from that time with no luck, but this project scratches the itch somewhat. When I was younger (late 90s-early 00's) I spent a fair amount
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by mgr86 1y ago
> I'd argue that his pragmatic approach to web design — combining web standards with design flair — was what won out during the 90s and early 2000s. Certainly, of the three web design gurus in 1997, Zeldman’s website back then was b
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by mgr86 1y ago
Thanks for sharing. I like this idea, and it is something I've wanted to try out for awhile. I've been around since I we would set the font color on the body element, and nest tables for complex layouts. I've worked with SGML
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by mgr86 2y ago
Well, we aren't exactly in the need to know here, but the DOD has been studying Climate Change for decades. At least as far back as the Bush administration of the early 00's if not well before. It is not so much oh look the climat
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by mgr86 2y ago
I run into the same issues here with banks in the US. It is a real pain in the ass, and makes tracking this sort of information way more time consuming then it needs to be. My other issue is with stores like Costco that sell both household
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by mgr86 2y ago
fwiw there are several vim and nvim org-mode attempts. Naturally, there is a lot more tooling built out for emacs.
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by mgr86 2y ago
Do you just push to another remote that you host locally, or are you capturing other github items too? Like, for example, Issues and PR reviews/discussions?
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by mgr86 3y ago
some of the code comments are also enjoyable. For example the "Sigh" cracks me up: /*---------------------------------------------------------------------- ; because the code was written using a different IO model (tha
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by mgr86 3y ago
I have been told that my organization developed a system, HABS, that pre-dated OCLC [0]. That OCLC used this system as an inspiration. However, I cannot confirm this. Closest I can do is to find a footnote that Thanks Fred Kilgore, the foun

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