Re: [off-topic] game theory and macroeconomics

2025-02-16 Thread G. Branden Robinson
[really, _really_, off-topic] At 2025-02-16T19:53:41+0100, onf wrote: > The problem with Graeber in general is that he is guided more by > ideology than a honest search for truth. Everyone who writes on matters "political" (as assessed by the entire population, since a single voice suffices to br

Re: [off-topic] game theory and macroeconomics

2025-02-16 Thread onf
On Sun Feb 16, 2025 at 4:46 PM CET, onf wrote: > I heard that they eventually modified the game by introducing the > possibility that, from time to time (at random), your collaboration > appears to the other player as defection (and vice versa) to model > real world misunderstandings. Not vice ver

Re: [off-topic] game theory and macroeconomics

2025-02-16 Thread G. Branden Robinson
At 2025-02-16T16:46:44+0100, onf wrote: > > Surely this oversight has nothing to do with the ownership of most > > consumer debt [] by those occupying the commanding heights of our > > economies. > > Hm, that's really interesting. Do you happen to have any sources to > back this up? While my rema

Re: [PATCH] Correct quotes in pic(1) manpage

2025-02-16 Thread G. Branden Robinson
At 2025-02-16T18:52:49-0400, Sebastien Peterson-Boudreau wrote: > > Hi Sebastian, > > > > I'm sorry it's taken a while to follow up with you. > No worries. It's a small and (somewhat) insignificant patch. I figured > someone would see it eventually, and even if they didn't, hopefully > anyone runn

Re: [PATCH] Correct quotes in pic(1) manpage

2025-02-16 Thread Sebastien Peterson-Boudreau
> Hi Sebastian, > > I'm sorry it's taken a while to follow up with you. No worries. It's a small and (somewhat) insignificant patch. I figured someone would see it eventually, and even if they didn't, hopefully anyone running into the issue I was facing would be able to find my post when Google-in

using `linetabs` in TOC entries (was: [PATCH v1] CONTRIBUTING.d/style/c: Add coding style for the example programs)

2025-02-16 Thread G. Branden Robinson
At 2025-02-16T22:22:02+0100, onf wrote: > Actually, setting table of contents items was what lead me to discover > .linetabs in the first place, because without it, multiline TOC items > break when left-adjusted. It doesn't work as it should even with > linetabs, though, which might be a bug. Sorry

Re: [off-topic] game theory and macroeconomics

2025-02-16 Thread onf
On Sun Feb 16, 2025 at 5:18 PM CET, G. Branden Robinson wrote: > At 2025-02-16T16:46:44+0100, onf wrote: > > > Surely this oversight has nothing to do with the ownership of most > > > consumer debt [] by those occupying the commanding heights of our > > > economies. > > > > Hm, that's really inter

Re: [off-topic] game theory and macroeconomics

2025-02-16 Thread onf
On Sun Feb 16, 2025 at 5:18 PM CET, G. Branden Robinson wrote: > At 2025-02-16T16:46:44+0100, onf wrote: > > > Surely this oversight has nothing to do with the ownership of most > > > consumer debt [] by those occupying the commanding heights of our > > > economies. > > > > Hm, that's really inter

how to prevent wrapping between "--" and "longoption" for html output?

2025-02-16 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Hi, In the HTML version of a man page it can happen that a long option (like --restricted) occurs near the right edge and that the browser splits the thing into "--" at the end of the line and "restricted" at the beginning of the next line. Is there a way to mark such long options in the man pa

Re: how to prevent wrapping between "--" and "longoption" for html output?

2025-02-16 Thread G. Branden Robinson
Hi Benno, At 2025-02-16T12:04:05+0100, Benno Schulenberg wrote: > In the HTML version of a man page it can happen that a long option > (like --restricted) occurs near the right edge and that the browser > splits the thing into "--" at the end of the line and "restricted" > at the beginning of the

Re: Proposed: Rename "scaled points" + Rationale behind "scaled points"

2025-02-16 Thread onf
Hi Branden, On Sun Feb 16, 2025 at 5:22 AM CET, G. Branden Robinson wrote: > At 2025-02-10T18:23:14+0100, onf wrote: > > Speaking of ignoring scale indicators, I wonder why `cs` still > > ignores them in groff? > > I think for the same reason that they're ignored in the arguments to the > `ss` req

Re: [off-topic] game theory and macroeconomics

2025-02-16 Thread onf
On Sun Feb 16, 2025 at 4:51 AM CET, G. Branden Robinson wrote: > At 2025-02-16T04:37:46+0100, onf wrote: > > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOvAbjfJ0x0 > > > > Take note that (IIRC) the conclusion of research surrounding the > > Prisoner's Dilemma has been that the best strategy is to reciproca

Re: how to prevent wrapping between "--" and "longoption" for html output?

2025-02-16 Thread onf
Hi Benno, On Sun Feb 16, 2025 at 12:04 PM CET, Benno Schulenberg wrote: > In the HTML version of a man page it can happen that a long option > (like --restricted) occurs near the right edge and that the browser > splits the thing into "--" at the end of the line and "restricted" > at the beginning

Re: [off-topic] game theory and macroeconomics

2025-02-16 Thread G. Branden Robinson
At 2025-02-16T19:55:39+0100, onf wrote: > By the way, I was asking for references to the passages of Old > Testament you mentioned. (If I understood you correctly, that is.) Oh. I have no fancy citation for that, just Leviticus 25:8-13, but I got that from Wikipedia. Most of the Biblical literac

Re: [PATCH v1] CONTRIBUTING.d/style/c: Add coding style for the example programs

2025-02-16 Thread onf
Hi Branden, On Sun Feb 16, 2025 at 4:19 AM CET, G. Branden Robinson wrote: > At 2025-02-09T03:48:33+0100, onf wrote: > > On Sun Feb 9, 2025 at 3:20 AM CET, onf wrote: > > > [...] > > > TL;DR: > > > With the default settings, a tab essentially translates into a > > > horizontal motion. [...] > > >