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LEARAX··on Fly To Podman: a script that will help you to migrate from Docker
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.
LEARAX··on TI-83 Plus One More
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?
LEARAX··on TI-83 Plus One More
My DM42 broke in under 2 weeks and Swissmicros support was completely unreachable. I would strongly recommend getting a used older HP calculator instead.
LEARAX··on Writing my PhD using groff
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.

LEARAX··on GitHub user sends notification to 400k users
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.

LEARAX··on Building a personal website in 2021
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.

[1]: https://www.rgz.ee/ssg.html

[2]: https://culhane.top, source: https://sr.ht/~learax/culhane.top

LEARAX··on Make Your Own Internet Archive with Archive Box
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.
LEARAX··on Pfizer and BioNTech Conclude Phase 3 Study of Covid-19 Vaccine Candidate
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).
LEARAX··on Editing the C Standard
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.
LEARAX··on Factorio 1.1 is getting close
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.
LEARAX··on GitTorrent: A Decentralized GitHub (2015)
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].

[1] https://twitter.com/pijul_org/status/1319159283938983936

LEARAX··on PS5 Teardown [video]
I still can't possibly see them competing against Atari without the power of the blockchain [1].

[1] https://atarichain.com/

LEARAX··on Phosphine gas in the cloud decks of Venus
Probably a slow process of sending more probes and getting more samples to test, and eventually shipping them back to Earth. We don't really have any interest in manipulating whatever ecosystem Venus potentially has, but we could certainly use microbes that survive in such an environment.

I strongly doubt there is life on Venus, however.

LEARAX··on Super Tux Kart – Linux racing game
Perhaps as a counterpart to Nintendo's Wario, complete with maniacal laughing.
LEARAX··on Rust 1.46
The quality of life improvements to cargo look very nice, and I feel that rust wouldn't be remotely as successful without such a tool. I'm very glad I won't have to be manually picking target directories out of my borg backups anymore when I'm running out of disk space.
LEARAX··on Spotify CEO: musicians can no longer release music only “once every 3-4 years”
Bandcamp's privacy settings are also pretty awful. There is no mechanism for making my library private; anyone can search my username and see what music I own. I suppose you can "hide" individual albums, but that's not great.
LEARAX··on Tihle: A new emulator targeting TI graphing calculators
While I agree with your sentiment, a big part of why the TI-84 is so ubiquitous is because they're required for standardized tests. I suppose their reasoning is that supporting assembly programs makes it trivial to break/fake the test mode on their calculators.

That said, they didn't even use test mode when I took the SAT, so I don't know.

LEARAX··on Nitrome to convert its Flash game library to HTML5
I believe that's exactly what Newgrounds is doing. See https://github.com/ruffle-rs/ruffle
LEARAX··on Show HN: Hacker Feud
"Whiteboarding, naming things, stand-ups, OBOE (?), cache invalidation, and Jira" according to [1].

I don't think these questions are very fun.

[1] https://github.com/lettier/hacker-feud/blob/e51c870f1b391ec0...

LEARAX··on A man feeding a remote Alaska town with a Costco card and a ship
Can I ask what "ridiculously stereotypical Croatian music" sounds like?
LEARAX··on The Sourcehut Project Hub
Where would you imagine JavaScript being added?
LEARAX··on Shell Productivity Tips and Tricks
Well, you could always just use a shebang or call bash/sh directly on the file.
LEARAX··on Void Linux: Some Context for Recent Events
Well, here the (original) maintainer is the one doing the forking, so there's a bit of a twist.
LEARAX··on Building Firefox's Picture-in-Picture Support
I was aware of that, since it isn't very intuitive within the UI I figured that Youtube was attempting to push it a bit more aggressively.
LEARAX··on Building Firefox's Picture-in-Picture Support
To be perfectly honest, I didn't realize this was a Firefox feature. I thought it was just a new part of YouTube.
LEARAX··on Zachtronics: Ten Years of Terrible Games (2017) [video]
Personally, I found Opus Magnum far too easy. In TIS-100, the constraints are brutal, and I often made multiple attempts before I was successful. In Opus Magnum, I finished every puzzle on my first try. You have almost no constraints. While optimizing is still a challenge, it felt much less rewarding to me. I feel no compulsion to return to OM after finishing the main campaign, but I return to TIS-100 every few months or so to mess around with the harder puzzles.

The 3 saved puzzles is a bit annoying, but you can always backup the puzzle files since they're just text.