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kaa updated crossroads

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kaa updated crossroads

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kaa updated crossroads

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kaa updated crossroads

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kaa 1 year ago

Forgotten drawings.

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kaa mikegrindle

1 year ago

>https://mikegrindle.com/posts/surf Regarding alternative search engines: consider mojeek. There are only a few unique search indexes. Of the obscure ones, Mojeek is relatively mature. I have an easier time finding obscure and interesting links on Mojeek than on any other search engine I've tried. Not good for finding a simple answer quickly, but good for finding links. https://www.mojeek.com/about/why-mojeek

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mikegrindle 1 year ago

Thanks, I'll give that one a try and might add it to the post

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colexdev 1 year ago

What makes you like Mojeek over DuckDuckGo?

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kaa 1 year ago

colexdev: DuckDuckGo is good at finding a quick, simple answer. It's mostly Bing. https://duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/results/sources/ Mojeek is a janky, small project that's been ongoing for several years. It's a genuinely unique search index. It's bad at giving simple answers, and good at sharing obscure ones.

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kaa mikegrindle

1 year ago

>https://mikegrindle.com/posts/obtf Be considerate of your disk's health. Assuming that you're not booting from RAM (if you are, good on you), every time you save your big text file, all of its contents are re-written to disk. Having multiple separate files circumvents this issue.

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kaa 1 year ago

You may have your big file split into separate files every now and again automatically. Guessing that you continue your file at the top, you may have a shell script such as: "limit=9999; lines=$(wc -l mybigfile); if [ $lines -gt $limit ]; then head -$(($lines / 2)) mybigfile > 2024-04-23.chunk; tail -$(($lines / 2)) > /tmp/a; mv /tmp/a mybigfile; fi"

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kaa 1 year ago

If you need to view all of the text at once, try "cat * | less".

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mikegrindle 1 year ago

I hear what you're saying, but in practical terms my "big" text file isn't nearly big enough for that to be an issue (it's still under a MB). Thanks to wear-leveling, you would have to seriously stress-test a drive for that to become an issue, though I always back-up and would split up a file if it ever got really big.

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mikegrindle 1 year ago

On the anecdotal side, I've known people who have used larger OBTFs for years with zero issue. Plenty of notetaking software programs like JRNL use single text files too w/o problems, so I'm not too worried tbh. Thanks anyway, though.

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kaa zaphelle

1 year ago

Hello.

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kaa 1 year ago

What will you be making?

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kaa plain-xetex

1 year ago

Very nice! It was silly for me to presume you didn't have a copy somewhere, I was mostly giddy to have a copy at all, and wanted to share. Good choice of reading material.

plain-xetex kaa

1 year ago

Hello. I got my copy of Penguin Rules from ‘Jan Tschichold: A Life in Typography’ by Ruari McLean. They are also printed in ‘Jan Tschichold: Typographer’ by the same author.

kaa plain-xetex

1 year ago

My school has a scanner, and I've scanned that individual page. Mail me: kaa@disroot.org, and I'll reply with a copy of the page. 400 DPI, 4.8MB.

kaa plain-xetex

1 year ago

So here I am, with a very huge book on Jan Tschichold, searching the web for a PDF of his composition rules. Guess which site comes second to Wikipedia? https://kaa.run.place/rules.png I'm looking at a reproduction of the original in a physical copy of *Jan Tschichold: Master Typographer*. You did a good job with the recreation. In the reproduction I've got, there's a horizontal rule under the title,

kaa 1 year ago

and the fourth page ends a little earlier. "The Printing of Plays" starts at the end of Page 3 in the reproduction I've got in hand. Little nitpicks, thank you for your faithful recreation.

kaa 1 year ago

The only digital copy of the book I've got the reproduction in seems to be stuck in the purgatory of Google Books. The reproduction is on page 274. https://www.google.com/books/edition/Jan_Tschichold_Master_Typographer/7aUOAQAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=Wide%20spaces%20should%20be%20strictly%20avoided

kaa 1 year ago

Google Books makes me a little sad.

kaa mental-labour

1 year ago

It seems like you're having some trouble. If you're in the US, call 988. https://www.fcc.gov/988-suicide-and-crisis-lifeline

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kaa satyrwoud

1 year ago

Great choice of typeface. You've got a good sense of style. And at your recommendation, I'll be watching (at least the first half of) Twelve Angry Men this evening.

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kaa 1 year ago

Good film.

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satyrwoud 1 year ago

Thank you for the compliments! I try to keep the spirit of Geocities going, but with the sensibilities and capabilities of today. (That is — lots of colour, but a wee bit less sparkles and Comic Sans.) And nobody ever got fired for picking Garamond. ;)

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kaa updated crossroads

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iwillneverbehappy 1 year ago

Really beautiful photos. What do you use to photograph with?

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kaa 1 year ago

I use a Nikon D3000. I received it for free, though it needed a simple repair to function. It's entry level, worth roughly $150. https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_nkw=Nikon+D3000&_sacat=0

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kaa iwillneverbehappy

1 year ago

>https://iwillneverbehappy.neocities.org/blog23#os I'd be sad to learn that Operating Systems are becoming less and less prominently taught, but I think I understand why it may be happening. Computer programs have been abstracted from individual instructions to assembly language; from assembly language to high-level languages; and from simple high-level languages to relatively abstract ones. Continued below.

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kaa 1 year ago

You admit, "[t]his may mean nothing in the grand scheme of things." Computer scientists working in Java, Python, or C# hardly need to care what a syscall is. The Tiobe Index confirms these as 3 of the top 5 most popular general-purpose languages, some 27% of the market.

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kaa 1 year ago

See https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/.

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iwillneverbehappy 1 year ago

You make a good point about the paradigm shift from assembly languages -> abstracted languages. But it's definitely interesting to see how this shift affects (admittedly specific instances of) CS curricula. Compilers and computer architecture courses seem to have gone down a similar path, so I wonder how the general CS curriculum will look 5, 10 years from now. Anyways, thank you for the thoughtful reply :-)

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kaa iwillneverbehappy

1 year ago

Thank you for your post on virtual memory. Though I still don't understand it, I have a better idea of how much I don't know.

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iwillneverbehappy 1 year ago

This is a great start :) As mentioned in the post, even people experienced with systems have trouble with it. And thank you for the comment, I've always loved your website (every once in a while, I go and check your "appreciated" page, it's wonderful)

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kaa updated crossroads

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kaa 1 year ago

Generated from https://kaa.neocities.org/Uncategorized/pdfweb.pdf.

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kaa updated crossroads

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kaa 1 year ago

Yes, some the walls of the Grand Canyon look like the walls of buildings.

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kaa mikegrindle

1 year ago

>https://mikegrindle.com/posts/permacomputing Thanks for writing on this. I argue that we have been wasteful *because* of the advancements of computing hardware. The focus is on speed before efficiency or durability. Likewise, popular software has grown to suit the convenience. Should computer hardware stop increasing in speed, developers may stop upping their hardware expectations,

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kaa 1 year ago

and then people who value their time can afford to keep a computer for a decade instead of 3 years.

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kaa 1 year ago

I own and occasionally use a 12 year-old laptop. The keyboard on it is great, and the touchpad is much better than the modern ones. Opening three heavy web sites at the same time causes disk swapping.

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mikegrindle 1 year ago

Thanks, appreciate you reading. Unfortunately, I don't see any such slowdown becoming the norm, but we can still strive for better. They really don't make keyboards like they used to, right? I always work my tech into the ground but I don't think I've hit the 12-year mark before. My current laptop is about 6-7 years old and doing okay (with a lightweight Linux).

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nohappynonsense 1 year ago

mike what's your go-to lightweight linux

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mikegrindle 1 year ago

Currently using Peppermint OS with Awesome WM. Linux Mint Xfce is brilliant if your hardware isn't too old. AntiX is a good choice if its ancient.

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nohappynonsense 1 year ago

will look at AntiX, then. thank ye sir

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owlroost 1 year ago

To add more lightweight options: quite a few people I know swear by Alpine as a lightweight choice. Void is popular if you prefer rolling release. Debian can be light if you set it up that way and has the added perk of very slow updates.

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nohappynonsense 1 year ago

thanks owl, i'll look into alpine as well. i use ubuntu on my regular set up cuz i'm a normie, but i do want to revive some ancient chromebooks with something very light

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kaa 1 year ago

Alpine is great. It uses musl libc https://musl.libc.org/, which uses much less memory than GNU libc https://www.gnu.org/software/libc/. My 12-year old laptop boots it in 30 seconds, and I've only beaten that metric using a purpose-compiled kernel on a source-based distribution https://kisslinux.org/. It requires some technical know-how, however documentation is readily available https://wiki.alpinelinux.org/wiki.

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nohappynonsense 1 year ago

https://nohappynonsense.net/images/goodburg.webp

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kaa

1 year ago

In case anybody else here uses neatroff to format their papers, here's some code for references in the style of the American Mathematical Society. https://kaa.run.place/ref.go

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kaa 1 year ago

I'm using it for my English101 research paper. Here's what I've got so far. https://kaa.run.place/English101/research.pdf

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kaa 1 year ago

Yes, that could work. I may spend a paragraph explaining the relative failures of competitors, such as Forth, and Lisp, and APL.

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