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Thank you for sharing! It might be a bit off-topic, but videos like this remind me why I fell in love with computers in the first place. Thank you!!


The whole "let me put TAOCP on pause while I create TeX just to create it properly" story always fills me with awe.


Agreed.

I'm also incredibly grateful --- I was gifted a NeXT Cube by my brother-in-law when I was in college studying graphic design, and I was incredibly put out by the paucity of nice typography features in Quark XPress and Aldus Pagemaker when I came across TeXview.app and remembered checking out the book _TeX and Metafont_ from the local college library when I was a senior in high school --- built that into a career and a series of presentations at TUG conferences where I got to meet him.


My takeaway is it's much easier to embark on huge side projects as a tenured professor.


you completely missed the point


The TAoCP itself is a side project from his original goal of writing a book on compilers.


Did he complete the compilers book, or even start it? I know he has worked on TAoCP for a huge amount of time, and on TEX too.


From what I understand, TAoCP is building up to that compilers book! When initially tasked with writing about compilers, he realized all the background necessary for building them and planned out these books as an overview of computational techniques that would be helpful to use.

See the "future plans" section of his website: https://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/taocp.html has volumes 6 and 7 as being on compilers.


danke, freund


Gotta shave some Yaks



These clearly aren't comparable to the support of browsers. I know this metric isn't really an important signal, but they both have under 500 stars. If I'm a business evaluating whether to build my cross platform experience either on the web using the sandboxing of browsers vs smaller frameworks like this, it's basically not even a choice.


"Paras" in Sanskrit means "someone who, by their touch, turns anything into gold."


It's also Persian for "money"


Extremely strong nominative determinism at play here across multiple languages.


Not only web but majorly all OS pdf renderers support JS. It used to be a major source of malware long back.


PDFs are still used to delver malware. Adobe gets picked on less often now since everyone has PDF readers in the browser but that just makes chrome the new target of choice (not that alternative viewers don't get attention too https://thehackernews.com/2024/05/foxit-pdf-reader-flaw-expl...) but what I see most often in malicious PDF files recently are just links to websites that contain malware since they can work no matter what your viewer is.


"used to be"


User A : its not raining

User B : since the sun is shining brightly , it is clear that there are clouds in the sky. the clouds in the sky is a sign that it is about to rain here. And since it is about to rain here, it is a already raining somewhere. Hence it IS raining.

Results :

User A : 1 votes

User B : 6 votes

Landslide win! ( for user B )


Not only YouTube, but even Google Meet is completely unusable on Firefox. I've noticed memory usage spikes on Firefox, while all other video conferencing platforms work fine. On Chrome, it works perfectly.


It'll also randomly bug out and drop the network connection. Although it is so far the only videoconferencing platform that actually works with Pipewire.


> it'd be distracting, they're open source devs/maintainers not fund managers

Exactly this! It is extra responsibility which distracts from the core project.


> popularity is a good heuristic for relevance , but it is not the primary factor.

Is the statement not valid for products too ?


It totally is. Take Notion for example.


That you, looks interesting. But the license is not specified on Github.


What you are saying is that slavery is not bad because they get to eat now.


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