mickmcq

Manhattan Institute lists Betsy DeVos on its Board of Trustees.

The article doesn't mention a key aspect of literate programming: publishing a code chunk at a different point in the document than where it is executed. This is possible in Quarto and should probably be added to that article for completeness. An answer on [stack overflow](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/76278117/how-to-achieve-...) explains how to do so.

My impression is that TinyTeX downloads required packages on the fly and can be quite tiny if you don’t use many packages.

Any teacher who simply forbids the use of ChatGPT is living in a fantasy world.

Source: I teach for a living.

A couple of notes on the blog post: the example

echo "Please explain this code: $(cat some_class.py)" | mark

needs a dash at the end to work correctly. Also, it doesn't output pandoc-flavored markdown (blank lines before headings and code chunks) unless I specifically ask it to, as in:

echo "Please explain this code, using pandoc-flavored markdown, leaving a blank line before headings and code chunks: $(cat some_class.py)" | mark -

In other news, Dracula testifies against Frankenstein.

Done €100 to https://iccf-holland.org/

I am so sorry to hear this. I will make a contribution today in his memory.

Wake me up when they reach code Blackwatch Plaid.

The guy lives in Arizona. He’d better not have his sunglasses too far away.

sad news … the first Nemesis picture remains one of my scfi faves … I recall an interview in which Tim Thomerson explained Pyun’s work style. He said that he worked 20 hours a day and absorbed popular culture like a sponge.

There is a TeX distribution that does what you say, TinyTeX. For some reason it is obscure and only really used by R and R Studio users. That may be because it is used to render R Markdown documents to pdf.