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I actually confused AsciiMath with UnicodeMath[0]. Interesting that this hasn't been mentioned here yet. Check out its playground[1]. [0]: https://www.unicode.org/notes/tn28&…

It would be much more readable if AsciiMath[0] is used and still gives you the benefit to render it with MathJax if required. [0] https://asciimath.org/ …

I use XQuery to transform XML data. Whatever can be done with XSLT can also be done in XQuery. It is a functional language and, unlike XSLT, it is supported by more tools for newer versions (XSLT >…

It would be wonderful if this were the final blow for Windows as a classic PC operating system and if Linux were to establish itself on the desktop as a more than reasonable, indeed unavoidable, alter…

Winter is a cyclical concept, just like all the other seasons. It will be no different here; the pendulum swings back and forth. The unknown factor is the length of the cycle.

Here is more information from German newspaper Sueddeutsche Zeitung[0] (use your browsers language translation feature), some excerpts: > In Germany, however, such images—US soldiers at food banks—…

The reason I was put off by Rust was compiling from source. I experimented with a ports collection package management system similar to those used in BSD a while ago, and every time a Rust program nee…

For CUA aficionados, I recommend dte[0]. It has replaced my nano usage quite a lot. [0]: https://craigbarnes.gitlab.io/dte/index.html …

I worked with GNU APL for a while and really liked it. It's also possible to extend it with the C foreign function interface (FFI). The best way I found to input the APL2 symbols with my normal k…

Yesterday, I learned the opposite. Simon Willison demonstrated in another thread how this works out … see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45686295 …