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2026-08-12 19:13 #

BibTeX Done Right: Lot of useful advices here.

2026-08-11 17:04 #

Stata 19 now includes just over 20,000 pages of documentation. Last time I checked (Stata 15), it was 14,791 pages.

~
» for i in /Applications/StataNow/docs/*.pdf; do pdfinfo "$i" | grep "^Pages:"; done | awk '{s+=$2} END {print s}'
20309
2026-08-11 15:21 #

I guess I now have the opportunity to study statistics again.

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2026-08-11 09:00 #

Looks like they are on par and well below 50 ms (Vim = zero plugin, Neovim = 5 plugins):

» time /usr/bin/vim +q
/usr/bin/vim +q  0,02s user 0,01s system 79% cpu 0,036 total

~
» time nvim +qa
nvim +qa  0,03s user 0,02s system 79% cpu 0,062 total
2026-08-11 08:52 #

Well, I knew it, you knew it, everybody knows it. Windows is not a high quality product. I really wanted to like it, and I geniunely loved some aspects of it. But there are so, so many bugs and bad design decisions, it’s a death by twenty thousand cuts. — Windows 11 after two decades of macOS: okay, but also awful

2026-08-11 08:40 #

monolith: CLI tool and library for saving complete web pages as a single HTML file.

2026-08-11 08:25 #

Credit where credit is due: Apple had listened to their users and the next version - macOS Sequoia — shipped with lots of fixes. Border radius was heavily reduced, transparent glass-like panels replaced by less transparent ones, buttons made more serious and less toyish. Most system icons made more serious, too, with focus on more detail. Overall, it seemed like the 2nd version was a giant leap from infancy to teenage years. — Benjamin Button Reviews macOS

2026-08-11 08:21 #

/me is listening to “Free Money” by Patti Smith