Typst if you are a progressive zoomer

I’m a millenial (maybe even an older one but I won’t admit to that) and I just love typst.

Markdown is just content, but as soon as you want actual layouting, you’re in for trouble; sure you can post-process in pandoc and apply the result to some template, but you’re probably creating an abomination in the process. Oh, and I hate creating slightly bigger tables there. One of your columns got larger? Better adjust all your horizontal lines (at least for grid tables), which might be a pandoc markdown only feature. Yeah, there isn’t one single markdown, but multiple flavors: https://www.glukhov.org/documentation-tools/markdown/gfm-vs-commonmark-vs-pandoc-markdown/

LaTeX? Probably still the king of exact typesetting, but it has a lot of issues:

• compile times are really bad (especially with something like lualatex)
• TeX which is the foundation of LaTeX maybe isn’t how you’d design such a language today
  • this includes error messages that aren’t helpful if you didn’t study CS and typesetting
• tables (though BIG THANKS to that brave soul who wrote tabularray, it saved my sanity in my last LaTeX project)

Though at least nowadays, you have options for creating accessible PDFs (I’m not a big fan of the idea myself, but there are environments where that support is mandatory, e.g. government contracting)

typst? I wrote my first bigger project in typst that did much more than I could ever do in LaTeX (generation of documentation from OpenAPI spec files) and I had way fewer issues than for LaTeX projects of lower complexity. Yeah there are still some areas that need improvement, but all in all it’s a breeze. With tinymist, writing stuff is just so nice, no waiting for your document to compile for 40 seconds, no, you get an instant preview, or a helpful error message.

I was a bit of a LaTeX guy but I haven’t touched it since I learned typst.

No, that’s not actually the issue. The PDF format is open.

The actual (non-)issue is that PDF is a format that is not meant to be converted or otherwise be edited. Let’s say you have a page of text with two columns. For a PDF, the concept of columns doesn’t exist. It’s just a series of individual letters placed exactly in a specific location on a page (and other graphical elements I guess, but that’s not the current point). I think strictly speaking PDFs don’t have to use the space character, since PDF doesn’t have the concept of a word, just individually placed letters.

Readers already have to do some heuristics to allow copying etc. but how are you going to convert this into a word file? How would you detect that there are text columns? What is a page header / footer and what is just fancy repeating letters?

Note that as soon as you get into more modern PDF, there’s also stuff like accessibility features (big fun!). There is support for Universal 3D.

Nobody sane would try to write a proper editor for PDF. You only write that if you want to make money off of it because a corporation somewhere doesn’t understand or control the pipeline that created a PDF that they need changed.

Anything after C:\ was basically as you wanted, no? It might have been an optical drive, it might have been a second HDD.

I’ve started rewriting some stuff in Go, bash is just not a pleasant experience in my opinion

A very fitting reward tbh, I’m only sorry they didn’t get fucked over more

I use it on PC because it’s easily accessible on my layout (Shift+Comma)

Yup I also associate excessive emoji use with boomers (though some millenials are also over 40)

Omarchy is so funny. There’s nothing interesting there (it’s just Arch with some questionable configs). It doesn’t solve any existing problem that wasn’t solved before, because it’s still Arch.

And yet the technofascists can’t stop supporting it. It must be virtue-signaling.

Wowie, you’ve credited another Arch fork derivative with a shitload of usage credit for your fourth-grade AI model. Surely this will have an impact on technology.

Then again, it’s a match made in heaven. Nobody cares about Omarchy, and about the same number of people would care about Grok if they couldn’t get pornography out of it.

Maybe I should give the game another try, I felt too dumb the first time I played it

Looking at lizards, I think they’re ahead though.

Enjoy sun
Eat some bugs
Lizard life

Missing the word “attacks”, a supply chain itself is a good thing

Sometimes I think that I’d like to buy a new PC

then I remember that the majority of my hours played is on titles that don’t need a better PC

This isn’t the 90s / 2000s when games were scarce and you needed to upgrade to have something to play because new stuff was so much better. There are tons of very good games out there that will most likely run on everything.

Good games I played recently-ish:

• Balatro (casual 600 hours total)
• Noita (maybe 500 hours though you wouldn’t be able to tell because I suck)
• Guacamelee! (actually from my backlog)
• Animal Well
• Clover Pit
• Cuphead (another backlog title)
• Opus Magnum
• Baba is you

None of this means that no good game requires good hardware, but there are lots of good titles to enjoy on absolute potatoes

I hate the “digital” framing. Blu-Rays are digital media, there hasn’t been a medium carrying analog information that I know of since the laserdisc (yes, even audio CDs are digital)

What Sony wants is download-only titles, probably with some dumb online license check, but the latter could be had with physical discs as well, though it’d probably be an even worse look.

Unless you’re a registered Republican

Technically, the question was even easier (yes/no), but I agree with the sentiment

Well, but the question wasn’t “what is a hash used for”, but rather “what is a hash”

Keep in mind this is a statement by a manufacturer who’s trying to get his customers to sign long term contracts at current prices, so it’s in their interest to have people believe that the shortage continues.

Doesn’t mean it’s not possible, bit it should be read in that context

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The hope wasn’t that the game would dominate the existing FGC, but that the IP would have such a massive pull that it would expand the FGC so much (and in the longer term, make the players be l branch into other games in the genre).

I don’t know what Riot expected, the genre is niche and from what I’ve heard, the game wasn’t very accessible in the first place, basically trading old hard stuff against new one (not that me being on Linux could have tried it myself), so yeah. My league friends didn’t even try it

And say what you want about SNK and their Saudi money, there’s a lot of valid criticism, but CotW is probably the best-supported and fairest game currently out.

Fuck the Saudis and Ronaldo though

These protections work at different layers and hence, you use both.

First off, you can’t really encrypt the first boot loader by design, your UEFI needs something it can read and run. You need to protect this first boot stage somehow, and this is what Secure Boot is for; it verifies the signature of the payload it starts to protect it against tampering.