mickmcq

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by mickmcq 1y ago
Manhattan Institute lists Betsy DeVos on its Board of Trustees.
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by mickmcq 2y ago
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 compl
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by mickmcq 2y ago
My impression is that TinyTeX downloads required packages on the fly and can be quite tiny if you don’t use many packages.
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by mickmcq 2y ago
Any teacher who simply forbids the use of ChatGPT is living in a fantasy world. Source: I teach for a living.
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by mickmcq 2y ago
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 head
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by mickmcq 3y ago
In other news, Dracula testifies against Frankenstein.
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by mickmcq 3y ago
Done €100 to https://iccf-holland.org/
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by mickmcq 3y ago
I am so sorry to hear this. I will make a contribution today in his memory.
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by mickmcq 4y ago
Wake me up when they reach code Blackwatch Plaid.
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by mickmcq 4y ago
The guy lives in Arizona. He’d better not have his sunglasses too far away.
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by mickmcq 4y ago
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.
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by mickmcq 4y ago
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.