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  • Le matematiche (libro)

    @libri - La matematica è la stessa, ma la scuola russa la vede in modo diverso

    https://wp.me/p6hcSh-9ds

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  • @zwol I wrote a book in Docbook (SGML first, and then converted to XML later) about 25ish years ago, with a custom vim configuration. It wasn't pleasant. Yes, the tools were bad, but also it's just really sort of tiring looking at all the tags and the processing toolchain was dire.

    I was using a LaTeX-based toolchain for the PDF generation, I don't remember details, but Sebastian Rahtz was super helpful when I ran into mysterious issues.

    I wouldn't do it again. Different time, different me.

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  • @jannem Yeah, like, considered as a thing-in-itself apart from the tools, the major complaint I have about DocBook is that the documentation of _how to write a book using DocBook_ is inadequate.

    Many people have very similar complaints about LaTeX.

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  • @Esoteria you might be a little too young for this classic scene from "WKRP in Cincinnati".

    https://youtu.be/hhbqIJZ8wCM

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  • @molly0xfff At first I thought it was about wikipedia socks, the puppet kind... lol

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  • seriously, I blew this entire afternoon trying to pin down an xmllint error whose cause turned out to have absolutely nothing to do with the error messages it was giving me.

    (Actual error: multiple elements with the same xml:id. Error message: "<chapter> not expected as child of <book>" or words to that effect.)

    (Giving sensible error messages for multiply defined symbols is a compilers 101 exercise!)

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  • @zwol
    I used LaTeX throughout university. I never found XML significantly more cumbersome.

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  • Current project number, um, 8? involves DocBook. Never had to do that before. Am now wondering just how much of the hate for XML, that I remember from the early 2010s, is down to the incredible shittiness of the tools for working with XML.

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    so Raptor gave me access to a Talos II to do some work on FreeBSD/ppc64le. first thing i noticed: the boot process is *very* unusual. it doesn't use the FreeBSD loader at all; instead it has a Linux-based firmware loader called Petitboot which can load and kexec() the FreeBSD kernel directly. however it needs a rather odd partition layout to do that:# Device Mountpoint FStype Options Dump Pass#/dev/nda0p2 / ufs rw 1 1/dev/nda0p1 /boot msdosfs rw 2 2i assume this is because Petitboot can't read FreeBSD UFS, so we need the kernel (which is in /boot/kernel) to be on FAT. Raptor suggested we should make the loader kexec()able instead, which seems like a good idea, but from what i can tell this platform doesn't use OpenFirmware at all, and i'm not even sure we have a PowerNV-native loader.(as you can tell, i know very little about either POWER or FreeBSD/powerpc, so this is going to be an interesting learning experience.)#FreeBSD
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    @DavidHS I did it on my minipc. Excluding suspension, everything else works perfectly, while on 14.3 many things were still missing (graphic card was occasionally showing glitches, etc.)
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    Hey #BSD friends! Sorry I haven't been posting on here.I've been posting a lot of #FreeBSD experimentation stuff on my main account:In chronological order (☺️):https://polymaths.social/@rl_dane/statuses/01KABZK9AZ5F6WE5MD6NXE2MJNhttps://polymaths.social/@rl_dane/statuses/01KAEBXEMBWFCFJ4EBC1H08KHXhttps://polymaths.social/@rl_dane/statuses/01KAF77ZMNN873WWJQG7V8NZSAhttps://polymaths.social/@rl_dane/statuses/01KAF7RC5AFK4AGT0HJCFQB0M8https://polymaths.social/@rl_dane/statuses/01KAFCBN72WZMC6N7R0AKFN25Khttps://polymaths.social/@rl_dane/statuses/01KAHVYSCD3KKK3W3RTJ1GMHT5https://polymaths.social/@rl_dane/statuses/01KAHX0AS08DS4DPP6VQ4MQTZBhttps://polymaths.social/@rl_dane/statuses/01KAHZM3VY4SHAC9K21TPA5F0Hhttps://polymaths.social/@rl_dane/statuses/01KAHZXQS2FWA7BR1GJH7FJWQJhttps://polymaths.social/@rl_dane/statuses/01KAJVBPH3V5E96R6DV2THQVYChttps://polymaths.social/@rl_dane/statuses/01KAJWWQYHBFE00B7PHX58ZXWAhttps://polymaths.social/@rl_dane/statuses/01KAK1DJ57BENGDP2RRZVECZ2Ghttps://polymaths.social/@rl_dane/statuses/01KAKYWBB019VZE00QPD3H1669https://polymaths.social/@rl_dane/statuses/01KAM90ENYCKHN988PRGXXRQ82https://polymaths.social/@rl_dane/statuses/01KANHDACYRJ0FAKYTGT9Y71V0
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    Running FreeBSD using Windows Subsystem for LinuxWhat if you are forced to use Windows, but want to use a real operating system instead? You could use WSL2 to use Linux inside Windows, but what if FreeBSD is more your thing? It turns out someone is working on making FreeBSD usable using WSL2.This repository hosts work-in-progress efforts to run FreeBSD inside Windows Subsystem forhttps://www.osnews.com/story/143517/running-freebsd-using-windows-subsystem-for-linux/#FreeBSD