#typst is IMHO phenomenal! i've only used #latex for the sake of #beamer but always hated using it. this will change my life for better. yes, there is beamer alternative for this: #polylux.

i've waited something like this to happen for ages (because i neither have time nor skills to do it myself tbh).

I prefer EQ style of drawing kick over #KICK2 style. #BitwigStudio

@diazona @astrojuanlu @ubuntu and there is a lot of deeply technical books that would not categorize as science books, like everything put out by my favorite publisher @nostarch. this has strong chances to grow huge from sort of disruptive angles. yet another field where this could be a greeat weapon of choice would be reports published by government departments such as Statistics Finland or VTT.

@diazona @astrojuanlu @ubuntu

True, I do use ReStructured Text in kernel, forgot that one :-)

I'm thinking maybe something like Intel SDM or some other ISA reference with more layout than kernel documentation. E.g. RISC-V ISA manuals would be good fit. Anyway, future will tell...

@diazona @astrojuanlu @ubuntu I mean, to put it bigger context:

• There’s LaTeX for scientists.
• There’s Markdown for web (such as this comment).
• I hate to say this but at the moment there’s only applications like Microsoft Word for engineers and technical writers (unless you count, ugh, troff that is still used (unfortunately) for man pages).

So yeah super happy to see something like this.

@diazona @astrojuanlu @ubuntu

I see a lot of sweet spots for this. E.g. for an open source developer like me Beamer is not a choice because I love LaTeX but more like that I get text based presentation, which I can put to a VCS. Having more friendly tool is level up from this.

Another field where I see potential are manuals, in a form that would come more close of great manuals of the past boxed software. Specifically I could see this being an awesome tool for creating user manuals for open source tools.

@nirbheek I use my phone to make call or share wifi mainly so with those applications it is sort of still in the sweet spot. I try to use phose as less as possible. Still I need sometimes smart phone for scanning receipts, plane tickets and such so it is sort of best compromise from security perspective.

@astrojuanlu @ubuntu Yes, there is polylux. For me this is immediate switch because I’ve never learned LaTeX properly anyhow (and I think it is quite terrible experience to write tbh).

@astrojuanlu @ubuntu Very cool! I did not know abut this. Is there something similar to Beamer for this?

@ubuntu Just left a very entertaining talk on #Typst, a #LaTeX successor written in Rust that compiles documents instantly, has nicer syntax, produces accessible PDFs, emits comprehensible error messages... A beauty!

#ubuntusummit2023 #UbuntuSummit

I know many people who do something super complex at their work in science or tech, and then after the work they go to a local Chess- or Go-club and then hang out at the local Hacklab soldering stuff together.

I would do that sort of stuff if I was e.g. a factory worker to sort of balance things out in my head. In the current situation, I rather enjoy culture and arts and anything that is not too formal. I would go nuts if I did not balance out both sides of brain :-) In the end, I unscientifically believe that this will also help me to perform better also in a tech job.

Along with people like Kurt Cobain, one of the best song lyricists of our lifetime...

I will vote Pekka Haavisto for #presidency of #Finland. There is a show called "The song of my life", and all the candidates were in todays episode. Pekka picked Leonard Cohen track, and that resonated, so the choice was obvious. He picked "Hallelujah". My favorite is from Leonard is "Everybody knows". Not being very politically oriented, I guess the music taste is a good way to select your candidate. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xu8u9ZbCJgQ

@lari @vittorio_fossofino @pesasa @jonne @osma @rolle @jaoler Siihen aikaan oli helpompi ohjeistaa vaikkapa mutsia. Kirjoitin ruutupaperille ohjeet, että kirjoita nämä komennot. Nykyään se voi olla isokin homma selittää miten graafisten käyttisten läpi suoritetaan joku verrattain yksinkertainen asia.

... joskus voi olla todella vaikeaa itsekään löytää oikeaa polkua, että tähän ei sinänsä edes mutsia tai kuuluisaa "Pihtiputaan mummoa" tarvita :-)

@lari @jaoler @jonne @osma @pesasa @rolle @vittorio_fossofino Sellaisen yleisen aaltoliikkeen oon vuosien aikana huomannut, että menneen high-level on nykypäivän low-level. Ihan ns. taviksetkin kirjoittelivat ysärillä AT-komentoja esim. pankkiasioinnin yhteydessä.

@lari @rolle @vittorio_fossofino @osma @pesasa @jaoler @jonne

#BBBS oli omasta mielestä mukavin, ja tiedonsiirtoprotokollista tietty Arisoft Oy:n #SMODEM. SMODEM oli askel #ZMODEM:sta siinä, että se mahdollisti kaksisuuntaisen tiedonsiirron purkkiin.

Purkkimaailman viimeisellä suoralla OS/2 Warp oli sysoppien keskuudessa kovassa suosiossa moniajo-ominaisuuksiensa vuoksi.

Joku on näemmä varastanut myöhempinä vuosina #Telemate:n tuotenimen, jota tuli käytettyä soitteluun. Pyhäinhäväistys mun mielestä :-) Eiköhän ne nimen käyttöoikeudet jne. ole jo rauenneet, eli tuskinpa sentään oikeussaleihin tällä keissillä pääsisi. Koitin kerran sähköpostilla tiedustella tästä kyseisestä firmasta kännissä ja läpällä vuoksi, mutta eivät vastailleet mitään.

Kaikki mitä purkkeihin soittelussa tuli opittua on ollut työssä koko työuran käytössä. Esimerkiksi AT-komennothan ovat Bluetooth-laitteiden kovaa ydintä, ja modeemithan niistä puhelimistakin edelleen löytyy. Tässä juuri siirtelen testiohjelman sisältävää tiedostoa FPGA:lla pyörivälle RISC-V-pohjaiselle CVA6-alustalle hyödyntäen ZMODEM-tiedonsiirtoprotokollaa :-)

I try to learn at least one RISC-V opcode a day to get more familiar. Today’s opcode was auipc which stores to a register a PC-relative address from an immediate offset. The offset is given as number of pages.

It is e.g. used to set the gp (which is mnemonic for x3), which is the base address for global variables.

Not trying to teach anyone. Writing things down like this just works for my memory :-)

#riscv #assembly #note

#china's non-nuclear ballistic missile plans are worst nuclear threat in ages...

remote working from here as i had to attend to a wedding over here... tonight back to #tampere :-)