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by yannis 11d ago
Reading the article, makes me think that mined areas are good for conservation. When the Angolan area where they congregate is demined their numbers might start declining.
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State Department orders return to Times New Roman(theguardian.com)
10 points by yannis 9mo ago|1 comments
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by yannis 9mo ago
It is actually quicker to ask using LaTeX markup!
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by yannis 1y ago
At its core is better "selling skills" In my last job I noticed how much better people that did jobs like waitressing before were more likeable by Clients. Small things like saying at the end "John thanks for your time...&quo
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by yannis 1y ago
Well written and well documented. I will be trying it out. One drawback that I see is the use of packages from LuaRocks might be an issue and one does not really want to cope with compilation issues. But Lua is a beautiful language in any f
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by yannis 1y ago
Depends on the user. Basic LaTeX2e/LuaTeX can be learned over 5 days. Guru level like any programming language needs its 10K hours. There are people who have an aversion for backlashes. The main reason for the "\" is perhaps
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by yannis 1y ago
Linguistics and many of its subbranches. Historians, archaeologists and to be honest LaTeX is great for poetry.
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by yannis 1y ago
Absolutely; One should also keep in mind why do you need the HTML, drop the pdf file on Google drive, and it will serve it fine, no webservers can limit who can see it, no friction for authorizations etc. Granted difficult to view on a mobi
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by yannis 1y ago
Sorry you need to catch up! The latest LaTeX engines (LuaLaTeX) can even do unicode math! But yes the Unicode spec s not something one can understand in a few hours.
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by yannis 1y ago
Your statement is not correct, LuaLaTeX can output any unicode character you need and also you can use Lua as well for scripting.
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by yannis 1y ago
Wikipedia is the best source of humanities "common knowledge". Yes there are users that abuse the system to push their own point of view. Many articles in Wikipedia have improved tremendously over the years; many times it is not u
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by yannis 1y ago
Thanks, I read the book and yes it is interesting an with a well written narrative.
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by yannis 1y ago
Agreed and besides Europe the Catholic Church destroyed much of the history of Mesoamerica. But, part of "culture" is our history as well, it just saddens me though thinking what we are going to leave behind for future generations
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by yannis 1y ago
How do immigrants impose their cultures on a host country? Can you give some examples? Historically populations mix by migration, wars, slavery, and trading networks. It is a process that cannot be stopped, maybe slowed down or accelerated.
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by yannis 1y ago
I agree diversity makes us richer, and historically there was always cultural diffusion, what I lament though is that this is now partially done by multinational corporations, wiping out local traditions.
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by yannis 1y ago
Strangely, I was thinking about this yesterday, that smuggling now became profitable :) It used to be and still is very profitable in some countries with goods that attract big tariffs like cigarettes. Gray markets will boom.
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by yannis 1y ago
Yes it is not the answer. About this issue see https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/editorial/2022/12/04/why-its-...
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by yannis 1y ago
It makes me sick also. The Greens are nutcases. As for the mummy mask, what they did is criminal.
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by yannis 1y ago
No they did not. They are just encouraging and creating an illegal market. The US also lacked proper laws against the importation of antiquities. For all we know it could have come into the states on a military plane and ISIS would have not
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by yannis 1y ago
To be honest and I am from Cyprus, the BM paid for a lot of archaeological expeditions at a time when Antiquity Laws were laxed and the expeditions could take 2/3 of the finds. The 19th century was another story, Cesnola for example (t
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by yannis 1y ago
But ... He adopted a Christian capitalist worldview centered around personal wealth as a precision tool to carry out God’s. F..ng nonsene!
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by yannis 1y ago
I find this fascinating; I do a lot of reading and writing (leisure work) outside my own specialization; Some I believe are possibly publishable, but I am reluctant so far to attempt to publish them. Is zenodo a good place for this in your
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by yannis 2y ago
Very interesting article, especially if you interested in how societies become organized and urbanized. Two fundamental requirements for a city, is a source of water, a centralized economy, such as a palace, that stores food and artifacts,
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by yannis 2y ago
Great you visited it. One reads all these cautionary notices about traveling to Peru. What was your experience? Did you visit on a group tour? Would love to know more.
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by yannis 2y ago
I am also retired and have more or less the same routine as you. I aim my own cooking time to a maximum of 7.5 minutes e.g. fried eggs and smoked salmon. I do open the door myself though. I hope you have an assistant because you can afford
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by yannis 2y ago
How I hate articles like this, painting everything as "existential" threat. Feeding the paranoia that has grubbed the US. Everything is viewed as a threat.
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by yannis 2y ago
To be honest for me it was like my terminal talking back to me. Gender neutral. With DeepSeek sometimes it makes me feel as I am talking to a person.
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by yannis 2y ago
>in LaTeX I could only accomplish after several days by cargo-culting indecipherable gibberish from years-old forum posts To learn basic use of LaTeX, takes an afternoon. To understand the language fully takes "effortful learning&qu
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by yannis 2y ago
Long term user of LaTeX. I did try Typst and it has is advantages main one it compiles faster. I am sticking with LaTeX and I don't find it difficult to use, write packages and classes, as I did invest the time to understand it and le
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by yannis 2y ago
>no country will want to buy F16s US needs to diversify and have an industrial policy. It also needs to rethink capitalism. Maybe new capitalism with US characteristics and more humanism thrown in. As to the defense industry it needs to

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