This feels like an article from 2013.

I used to use markdown with embedded LaTeX and pandoc for scripting. I hated the stack, it was really hard to write custom functions.

Since switching to typst my happiness with my writing tools improved dramatically.

What I hate about Preview on macOS is that all opened PDFs are kept in memory as opposed to freeing up the memory when the PDF is not active.

Look I know that I probably should not have 200 PDFs open, but Preview should not be consuming 40GB of memory.

That's... not how programs usually work. You open something, it's in memory.

Yeah, you shouldn't have 200 PDFs open.

On the other hand, the good news is your Mac still runs fine, consuming 40GB of "memory" even if you've only got 8GB. Since it's just putting it all out to swap on a fast SSD. So why even complain?

> That's... not how programs usually work. You open something, it's in memory.

What are you talking about? UPDF does it just fine https://updf.com/updf-mac-user-guide/preferences-mac/#3

> Yeah, you shouldn't have 200 PDFs open.

Nah.

> On the other hand, the good news is your Mac still runs fine, consuming 40GB of "memory" even if you've only got 8GB. Since it's just putting it all out to swap on a fast SSD. So why even complain?

I'm aware, however it only works like this in theory. In practice, if the Preview gets to like 60GB, the whole system will get slow until I close it.

As someone who routinely switches between multi-gigabyte PDF files, I appreciate that they all stay loaded in memory. Ain't nobody got time to re-render and re-index those files every time I switch documents..

Ok, it should be an option.

There’s a whole subfield called generalized distributive law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generalized_distributive_law

Kinda like the UK.

Lots of similarities, almost like you could predict it by reading history

That would require people to read history, which is becoming more & more of a pipe dream.

Maybe like the UK but the problem with the US is that the US is a violent country. Lower standard of living is likely to cause violence. UK literally just lost all the colonial wealth but came together to build itself again.

In many ways, the US is a spiral descent culture while the UK lost is all and ascended again but to lower levels.

What happens with those figures if war is removed from the data? US Euro compare 2000 to 2000: https://ourworldindata.org/data-insights/since-2000-homicide...

So you're claiming that wars don't count?

It’s the only language that has a decent type system, that is fast and that you can ship stuff in.

Generational arenas is the name of the pattern.

Rust is way more productive than any of the listed languages.

Extraordinary claims require.. at least some kind of evidence.

There is very little research comparing PL productivity, because it is very hard to do them properly.

Try it.

Idk I see applications of AI, I never saw applications of metaverse.

Agreed. The metaverse was literally SecondLife2.0, i.e. nothing squared.

Palantir is a FAAS, fascism-as-a-service provider.

What kind of fascists are they?

Does it matter?

Yes I think it's best to be explicit.

Why?

Well we're not shy about it with other people. Why get all coy when it comes to Palantir?

I’m not sure most people even know the different kinds of fascism so I don’t think I agree.