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The highest upvotes I got on Cross Validated is for a quick reply where I mentioned the Gifi “nom de plume”, which I miss a lot. Enjoy your “unfinished” retirement, Mr./Dr. Jan de Leeuw, and happy foometrics (PDF)!

If Foo is a science then Foo often has both an area Foometrics and an area Mathematical Foo. Mathematical Foo applies mathematical modeling to the Foo subject area, while Foometrics develops and studies data analysis techniques for empirical data collected in Foo. Each of the social and behavioural sciences has a form of Foometrics, although they may not all use a name in this family. — de Leeuw, 2006

The thing I really appreciate under Ubuntu or OpenBSD compared to macOS is the package manager. So bad Apple decided to move away from the Un*x world. I miss the old good stuff that was lying around there. #apple #unix

Also, I deleted Apple Music on my iPhone. Thanks for the goodies. Back to listening to ripped CDs!

I recently came across some Racket code on Reddit that implements Fenwick trees, aka binary indexed trees (BIT). Fenwick’s article, which is not the original paper on that particular data structure, A New Data Structure for Cumulative Frequency Tables (PDF) explains all the details, but there’s also a nice tutorial, as well as some applications for competitive programming.

So basically, I pay a yearly fee to get access to their SDK? Most manufactures provide that to you for free because they really want you to build apps for their platform. — Apple doesn’t want you developing hobby apps

UNIX contains a number of features very seldom offered even by larger systems. — Unix Edition Zero.

Dear LazyWeb: Setting up a new Mac, what are some groovy new monospace fonts for terminals and IDEs? — Modern Mono

I like screenshots. See also Monospace Acid Test for a more elaborated overview of modern monospace fonts.

Perhaps I’m on one of my periodic ‘minimalist’ adventures (which would seem to be borne out by my keyboard choice), but Emacs has recently felt a bit much to me, and made me curious about the current state of the art in Neovim. — Neovim again

I’m also quite happy with my minimal setup these days. It’s been running smoothly for several months now.

Alacritty with font ligature support, Tmux, Cmus, Neovim nightly.

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