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Just because I can
I made the de Vaucouleurs galaxy classification diagram in LaTeX recently. Mostly to teach myself how to use TikZ, but also because it's cool to do so. The image below links to the PDF version.
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Buxton Index
While doing some research on floating point representations and the pitfalls of computing using floating point numbers (see How Futile are Mindless Assessments of Roundoff? (pdf) for example), I started reading about prof. Dijkstra's writings (damn you Wikipedia!). I found this nice article, The strengths of the academic enterprise, which is an ( Read more... ) -
OS X
I learned today that HFS+ is a case preserving, case insensitive filesystem. HFS+ is the default filesystem on OS X. So, on my laptop:
$ touch test.txt TEST.txt
$ ls *.txt
test.txtSo, test.txt and TEST.txt (and TeSt.txt, ...) all refer to just one file. No wonder I could do open -a vlc instead of open -a VLC.
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