miguelmurca

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by miguelmurca 1y ago
This is an at-a-loss, public service created by volunteers who are not necessarily professional software developers. The first version of the website parsed PDFs. It's not obvious at all what exactly they are doing behind the scenes. I
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by miguelmurca 1y ago
Ginga is a Brasilian Portuguese word. I spent all of the day of the blackout listening to the radio (as you might guess) and not once heard the terms "ging" or "ging-induced". Also, ginga would not be swing as in cable s
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by miguelmurca 3y ago
"Typst Overleaf" sounds like a fine business idea to me, if you give the user the option to export TeX (so that they can then submit it to a journal). (If you support both LaTeX and Typst, and improve the Overleaf experience somew
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by miguelmurca 3y ago
Hey, hope you enjoyed the article itself. I'm sorry if you felt that addendum was aggressive. However, I still feel like I'm justified in making it absolutely clear how (and if) I want to be contacted. I am in a complicated posit
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LaTeX3 Automatic Labels for Fun and No Profit(commutative.xyz)
2 points by miguelmurca 3y ago|0 comments
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LaTeX3 Automatic Labels for Fun and No Profit(commutative.xyz)
84 points by miguelmurca 3y ago|85 comments
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by miguelmurca 3y ago
While I agree that it's very questionable that Nature would invite someone to write an obituary (or what have you) and then reject it, I fail to see what's so controversial about the text being overly technical. I work in Physics,
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by miguelmurca 3y ago
This should be the link. As is, currently, you get a PDF viewer that does not allow zoom (without zooming surrounding UI), and with a weird comments integration.
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by miguelmurca 3y ago
This is bound to get some criticism (or some tangent-at-best discussion), but it seems like a pretty fair discussion to me. What I'm missing at the end of the article is the author's point: I believe they're advocating for th
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by miguelmurca 3y ago
Maybe not your point, but a lot of programmers like to take this as "I should invent the Python of quantum computing", which is just about as silly as trying to approach anyone in 1960 and telling them they shouldn't be think
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by miguelmurca 3y ago
Every time this is reposted I giggle at this comment: > @chx: I already have a master's thesis. This was harder. – ais523 - high effort answers Oct 29, 2021 at 1:17
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Show HN: Sane: pure Python, single file command runner(github.com)
2 points by miguelmurca 3y ago|0 comments
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by miguelmurca 4y ago
Haha, Malware Bytes hates that link
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by miguelmurca 4y ago
Knuth's "Concrete Mathematics" is fantastic, precisely because it's very applicable.
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Extra Qubits, Please!(commutative.xyz)
2 points by miguelmurca 4y ago|0 comments
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Extra Qubits, Please!(commutative.xyz)
3 points by miguelmurca 4y ago|0 comments
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by miguelmurca 4y ago
Re. 403353: That's a lovely stackexchange post, and inspiring; I've run into it more than once when googling for answers. Great running into you here, and thanks for caring enough to rephrase the post.
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by miguelmurca 4y ago
It's true, I do enjoy being perverse. However, I think it's a bit unfair to say I have "picked up a few pieces of knowledge, become excited, and tried to hack their way through by themselves, without understanding the broader
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by miguelmurca 4y ago
Thanks, and ouch. I have some follow-up questions/comments, if you have the time: > these are predefined as `\@firstoftwo` and `\@secondoftwo` I do wish LaTeX kernel commands (which I'm assuming these are) were more widely docu
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by miguelmurca 4y ago
Sorry you feel like that. I tried to counteract for this by including the TL;DR at the top. OTOH this did come from an effort to implement the lambda calculus I discuss at the beginning, but I thought it was reasonable enough to make a smal
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Lambda Operator in LaTeX(commutative.xyz)
35 points by miguelmurca 4y ago|22 comments
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Lambda Operator in LaTeX(commutative.xyz)
1 points by miguelmurca 4y ago|0 comments
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by miguelmurca 4y ago
Ah, my bad. Can't delete the original reply anymore, sorry.
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by miguelmurca 4y ago
What? The article is apologizing for a mistake (with questionable implications, as pointed out by other comments).
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by miguelmurca 4y ago
My god, the last thing I'd want is for someone to auto-DM me after I follow them with "Thanks for following, how can I help you?" In fact, I'm almost sure that would make me unfollow immediately. That said, is this meant
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by miguelmurca 4y ago
Hello, I thought about it a little and indeed you are both right! For the sake of completeness I've updated beamleeto to use this mechanism instead :) thank you for your help!
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by miguelmurca 4y ago
Yes :) https://github.com/mikeevmm/nobeamer
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by miguelmurca 4y ago
I can only hope to curse you with a TeX nerd-snipe :) I can recommend reading the first few chapters of The TeX Book (it's a genuinely fun read) followed by the links in the article's footnotes for more operational information.
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by miguelmurca 4y ago
This anonymous, undated article was written by me, yesterday. The strong backwards compatibility of LaTeX(2e) [0] make it so that the date is not especially relevant (since I'm using primitives); in any case my point was pedagogical, i
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by miguelmurca 4y ago
Hi! Author here. This is a cool idea for a vector implementation, but you still need to work around the fact that the command definition can come after the \get

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