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I think the point is that of intentional international languages (i.e., international in the sense of not being tied to any particular country), Esperanto is the most widely used one.

That still is going to be a quite small number against English, Spanish, French &c. in terms of being a lingua franca.

The actual page title "marshmallow test and parenting" is much better. The HN title makes it sound like it's only relevant to a subset of parents ("young ones").

Ah, that's fair enough. I was thinking of the positive e-ink-like properties, but this is a good point. "e-paper" in fact makes more sense here.

A transflective LCD[0] though (that they call "e-paper"), which, in user-facing terms, is similar to e-ink.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transflective_liquid-crystal_d...

(could you make an account on the Fedi/Mastodon and/or Bluesky?)

Ah, that makes sense - didn't really it was a uni thing.

where is the recent essay?

I get a "Cannot detect the reference pattern" error when I try with Ghostty with Typometer.

Re: the Visual Zorker visualisation, see Andrew Plotkin's associated blog post: https://blog.zarfhome.com/2025/01/the-visible-zorker

[ commentless HN discs: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42769679 ]

see:

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42700426

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42699610

Also, for a wider search for packages across non-official channels: https://toys.whereis.social/

I think maybe being logged in or not affects this

Similarly, Under Mi Sleng Teng[1], but here too it required human musical talent.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleng_Teng

I've written numerous technical articles and had to publish them in particular journals for academic promotion/retention reasons, and almost universally the (paid) editors (not the working for free other academic reviewers) added negative value: they introduced errors and I had to spend hours of unnecessary time trying to catch these newly introduced errors, and even then tonnes remained. I distribute the preprints (that paid editors didn't get their hands on) because they're much less error- and typo-ridden then the official published versions.

Anyway, I've got a new list of publishers I'll never publish with, nor use anything they publish as required reading for a class I teach.

I think "use paper" is good for lots of things. But if I'm trying to quickly make notes of lots of things, I end up not being able to find things. Org-roam (or some other similar system) is what I've found to be a good substitute for paper.

The thing about both paper and Org-roam/Emacs, is that it's under your own control, and can be tailored to meet your own actual needs, not how someone else thinks you should do things. That's where Apple Notes etc. fall down.

Funnily enough, I was idly playing with a last-updated-12-years-ago Markov chain text generator[0] in Emacs, and had quickly a number of amusing Markov chain outputs from mash-ups of the Elisp manual and Alice in Wonderland, including:

"13.7 Anonymous Functions

Although functions are usually defined with the built-in defmacro macro, but any list that begins with an M--'

`Why with an M?' said Alice.

`Why not?' said the March Hare."

[0]: https://github.com/skeeto/markov-text

Curious what you did in FontForge to merge IM Fell Great Primer Italics into Doves Type Regular. (As I'd very much like to use Doves, e.g., for an e-reader font, but I do want to have italics for such purposes.)

I made a native attempt in FontForge (just doing 'merge fonts'), which (unsurprisingly) didn't work.

A discussion of other digitisations: https://web.archive.org/web/20220705070449/http://luc.devroy...

In terms of apps, there is Firefly Nightly[0], built from the bones of the abandoned Mozilla client.

[0]: https://github.com/Firefly-Social/Firefly

I'm reminded of Ron Garrett's writing/talks on remote debugging the Remote Agent for the New Millennium Deep Space 1 (DS1).[0], [1]

[0]: The Remote Agent Experiment: Debugging Code from 60 Million Miles Away - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gZK0tW8EhQ

[1]: NASA Programmer Remembers Debugging Lisp in Deep Space - https://thenewstack.io/nasa-programmer-remembers-debugging-l...

Yes, I've been hoping for this; one amongst many reasons to be sad that Vinge didn't live longer.

There's an interview with Vinge from 2009 [0] which contains a screenshot [1] of him using Emacs with his home-brewed proto-Org-mode annotation system (which appears in parent's link).

[0]: https://web.archive.org/web/20170215121054/http://www.norwes...

[1]: https://web.archive.org/web/20170104130412/http://www.norwes...

via: https://octodon.social/@cwebber/112100546598122825

(apparently based on actual code from NASA: https://shemesh.larc.nasa.gov/fm/pvs/TheMartian/ )

there's also: https://github.com/clarete/hackernews.el

More discussion at: https://9to5google.com/2024/01/30/microsoft-edge-chrome-data...

cf. https://github.com/emacsmirror/gcmh (the author's [=Andrea Corallo's] Emacs package "GCMH - the Garbage Collector Magic Hack")

Also see Meow[1], [2], which adopts some ideas from god-mode.

[1]: https://github.com/meow-edit/meow

[2]: https://esrh.me/posts/2021-12-18-switching-to-meow.html

It's not as seamless as I would like, but I manage pretty well with Emacs in Termux and files synced via Syncthing.

Or Org-Roam, to stick with the Emacs connection.

This looks quite interesting. A few years back I needed (quickly) to find something like this, and at the time there seemed to be only Davmail (which I see your notes mention). I will be curious to see if this is an easier solution than Davmail (since I really just need the email imap/smtp part of oauth for Outlook).