@ciaota.bsky.social Well, I’m not ashamed to admit that I need a dictionary to read the HLM.

@mrg.name Beats me, seems to be a hapax.

Cheiros - hand, ago - to lead -> “hand-leading”? But my Greek is non-existent.

@mrg.name I haven’t really dug into it yet, but that was one of the things that caught my mind.

I wanted to read it because I argued elsewhere that an /interesting/ translation has to be somewhat opinionated, but then I it struck me that Boodberg probably aimed at being correct above all else.

@jowolff.bsky.social Move slowly and things brake.

@sarahemclaugh.bsky.social Legendary CS professor Donald Knuth as he stopped reading email in 1990:

”…15 years of email is plenty for one lifetime. Email is a wonderful thing for people whose role in life is to be on top of things. But…my role is to be on the bottom of things.”

www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/email…

@mikeygow.bsky.social One of my greatest achievements as a kid was to actually break the supposedly indestructible TAC-2

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TAC-2

@samuelwa.de Ah, OK, I see now that LLSPI has an online version, perhaps that is more cost-effective, Legentibus is a bit pricey. My bottle neck isn’t money, though, so for me it’s worth it…

@samuelwa.de I don’t want to be an enabler here but I’ve had the same thought lately (despise full-time work and full time-family) and I think you should check out Legentibus. Their course is based on LLPSI and seems, IMHO, perfect for false beginners.

legentibus.com

@jowolff.bsky.social There is no God and Christopher Hitchens is his messenger.

@bokane.org Oooh, margin notes that also works on mobile! I’ve been fiddling with that for ages. What’s your setup?