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An old artifact kept in a vault outside Paris is no longer the standard for the kilogram. Now, nature itself provides the definition.
Word processors are great, but they’re also pretty simple. They’re fine for writing letters or essays, but they’re not for complex documents – they’re just not designed for it. LaTeX, a document preparation system used by scientists and mathematicians, aims to get around the problem.
Rather than relying on software to format your document, LaTeX markup is used, giving you the opportunity to introduce elements like complicated mathematical equations. You could do this in a plain, old text editor like Vim or, if you’d prefer to see your LaTeX formatting appear as you write, a LaTeX editor.
Here are five of the best LaTeX editors you could use if you’re a Linux user.
Which built-ins should you know about?
I estimate most Python developers will only ever need about 30 built-in functions, but which 30 depends on what you’re actually doing with Python.
We’re going to take a look at all 69 of Python’s built-in functions, in a birds eye view sort of way.
A small tool that could store, version, retrieve, and format our application configurations in order to keep sync between coworkers and environments.
How Donald Knuth’s 1978 typesetting program became one of the oldest still-active open-source projects and revolutionized technical publishing along the way.
Technology reshapes the workplace in much subtler ways than simply robots stealing jobs.
Drill is a new file search utility that uses "clever crawling" instead of indexing, for Linux, Windows and macOS.
PyRadio is a command line internet radio player written in the Python programming language. There's support for playlists, and uses popular media players.
This tutorial describes 3 different command-line image viewers to display images in Terminal itself in Unix-like operating systems.
Many people started switching to Python 3, unfrotunetly most people still write their code like it is Python 2. Below are useful Python 3 features.
This article, shows how to setup a private, encrypted and authenticated chat server with Ytalk over SSH for secure, password-less access into the chat server.
Explains how to Generate two-factor authentication code from your Linux oathtool command line & encrypt totp key with gpg2 for privacy and security reasons.
Check out a cool project that leverages Stack Overflow Data and Google's Cloud AI to predict what tags would work best on Stack Overflow questions.
Developed in China, the lidar-based system can cut through city smog to resolve human-sized features at vast distances.
Designing media to reflect how people think and learn
Nel tentativo di accompagnarli dunque in questo loro difficile ruolo, Novara ha creato un "decalogo anti-fragilità educativa".