I would love to know more details about your CI setup. I'm running all of my self-hosted services as Quadlets (which I generally really love!) and CI (using Gitea) was/is a huge pain point.
I have a simple setup on GCP. I am using Cloud Build with the companion Github app to trigger builds on branch updates.
I like it because I am deploying to GCP, and storing containers in Artifact Registry. Cloud Build has good interop with those other products and terraform, so its pretty convenient to live with.
The pipelines themselves are pretty straight forward. Each step gets an image that it is executed in, and you can do anything you want in that step. There is some state sharing between steps, so if you build something in one step, you can use it in another.
I do a lot of self hosting as well and relegated to git post receive hook that sends events through https://pipe.pico.sh and then have a script that listens on that topic and builds what I need.
My DM42 broke in under 2 weeks and Swissmicros support was completely unreachable. I would strongly recommend getting a used older HP calculator instead.
I had the exact opposite experience. After already owning a DM42, DM41X, and a DM16L, and I bought a DM12L for a client. The screen had several LCD segments that faintly showed as always on. I wrote an email and was contacted by Michael (the founder) almost immediately. He said they'd happily take it back and send me a new one, but it would take a few weeks for shipping from Europe. Instead he suggested that I first try putting it in the oven at 70C (160F for us 'Mericans) for a few hours. So I disassembled it and put just the PCB/display unit in the oven. And sure enough: problem solved!
tl;dr: I thought their service was great.
Although I do love my real HP's, too. I own maybe a dozen. I think the 32sII is my favorite, but I dearly miss my 41CV from back in the day. Maybe I should find a used one of those.
On the programming side: I definitely agree with those saying calculators were/are an entry to programming. My first programs were on an HP-29c. I thought I had invented binary search!
Can I ask when you had this exchange, which email you contacted (I've tried emailing both the support address and the individual addresses) and which email provider you use?
This was in early March 2020 (so, just pre-Covid). I was using orders@swissmicros.com, because I was responding to the invoice they sent me. And I self-host my email server. Hope that helps.
This was not my experience with TeXmacs. I tried it recently after using LaTeX for all of my papers, and while it is nice, it is not replacing LaTeX for me.
Table output in particular was much lower quality than LaTeX with booktabs. I think I had to manually resize columns, which was tedious, and I never had to do that with LaTeX. There were a lot of similar situations I found myself in, where I wound up needing to fight TeXmacs quite a bit to get it to output what I wanted.
I prefer my LaTeX workflow where I can edit markup in Emacs, and have a preview almost instantly generated next to my editor by a filesystem watcher & makefile. TeXmacs necessitates using its own interface (which lacks my vim keybindings and Emacs customizations) and I could not find many resources on editing TeXmacs documents in external programs.
I did appreciate that the general typesetting in TeXmacs was high quality, and the ability to type TeX macros and get e.g. enumerated lists quickly was very nice. But overall, I prefer LaTeX.
I believe the notification did not get sent out for the first PR until a comment was posted on it (the PR was opened 2 days ago).
I think the top commenter on this thread (Rob) may not realize his comment is the one that is triggering the first wave of notifications, based on his choice of sound effect.
I've been using the minimalist ssg [1], a ~187 sloc sh script to generate my site [2], so that I can avoid dealing with more complicated, messy solutions and to make it easier to switch to a custom site generator if I decide to write one in the future. I'd say I'm pretty happy with it so far.
There are different extractors/services, and you can toggle them pretty easily. By default it screenshots everything, exports a PDF, saves like 4 different HTML copies and submits the link to the wayback machine. It also tries to extract important text, and stores that separately. You could easily configure it to only extract text, turn off some HTML extractors, or disable the PDF and screenshot captures if you want to prioritize disk space.
It sounds like BioNTech did all the development work on the vaccine, but Pfizer funded the actual creation of the vaccine and runs the trials/logistics/finances/business stuff (considering how temperature-sensitive this is, logistics have to be fairly painful). Both should probably be credited (as they are in this article).
It's really unfortunate that LaTeX and friends seem to be the only options for document typesetting with anything vaguely complicated. There are just so many quirks and oddities; many times I feel like error messages might as well be written in another language, and the syntax becomes ugly fast. Personally I haven't had much luck getting into LuaLateX or XeLaTeX, but I'd be interested in hearing if anyone has found those to be worthy alternatives. Having looked into LuaLaTeX a bit, it seems there are a lot of odd quirks there as well.
LaTeX and its TeX cousins are the worst document typesetting options except for all the others.
What's fascinating is that this situation has existed for decades. Alternatives have risen and [mostly] fallen, but LaTeX persists. For that reason an alternative would not only have to be better, but significantly better, for me to question someone's choice of LaTeX.
This. It's also hilarious how bad LaTeX actually is at maths despite it being overwhelmingly used for exactly that purpose. Instead of worrying about mathematical semantics, you constantly have to make typesetting decisions. There are workarounds (use your own custom, semantic commands), but still. And yet, everything else seems to be even worse.
Disclaimer: I have been using LaTeX (mostly XeLaTeX) for over a decade for most of my writing, mathematical and non-mathematical, although nowadays I often do so via Markdown+pandoc. Also, at my last company we had to parse mathematical formulas typeset in LaTeX and understand their structure... it was a nightmare.
That appears to be a Windows-only game using a fairly pricey subscription model. Looking at gameplay of it, it seems to have potential, but it also looks very janky and unfinished. Maybe after a few more years of development.
I believe the main developer of pijul has temporarily made his work closed-source for the past few years while he rewrites it to avoid receiving issues while it's unfinished. Looks like it's supposed to release soon, though [1].
