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
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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>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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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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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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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
2 years 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
2 years 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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I have now found that Firefox and friends will hyphenate pages only if both the language are set in the tag and the strange -moz-hyphens and -webkit-hyphens are set to auto. I am unsure if this is less or more obscure than the wrapper code I wrote around libhyphen.
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2 years ago
Taketwo: I've got the tools to do that. I'm currently renting a domain from godaddy.com, which provides an API to create sub-domains. I've got a VPS connected to that domain. However, somebody else has already done this project. https://tilde.institute/stats All they're missing is a pretty interface.
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To anybody who uses `text-align: justify;' and can run `make': Please run a program I wrote, for our mutual benefit. You get better looking text, I get bug reports and a sense of fulfillment. Compiles and runs on Linux and Windows, presumably on Mac. git clone git://mesacsclub.com/hyp
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kaa
2 years ago
New and Improved: the singular dependency, `libhyphen', is included in-tree. The build path is now compiled in to the program without manual intervention. Compiling on Windows is as simple as installing a compiler, a shell, and then running `make win/hyp.exe'.
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kaa
2 years ago
I went looking for web sites which use `text-align: justify', however the lack of consistent hyphenation seems to have caused aversion from it. Since this is a chicken-and-egg problem, a web page I have written with justification in mind is provided in the `demo' directory, before and after hyphenation.
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Good film.
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. ;)