Hello! I go by Elnu on the internet, and this is my blog, I hope
you find something of interest here. I’m 18, I’m interested in
programming, GNU/Linux, studying Japanese, watching anime, drawing,
and creative writing. I’m horrible at doing things
consistently.
For now, I’ll be posting small Linux and programming-related
posts explaining how to do various things that I happen to find
useful. In the future, I’ll post larger, more interesting posts.
Stay tuned! (〃＾▽＾〃)
This is an assignment for my English Composition II
class.
Throughout Japan, there have been increasing numbers of
abandoned houses, or 空き家 akiya. According to a government
count, across Japan there are over eight million vacant
homes,[1] and that number is
only increasing. Nationally, Japan has a vacancy rate of over 14%,
one of the highest in the world.[2] What are the root causes of this
issue, and what are its effects?
Root causes
One of the most apparent causes for the number of abandoned
…
Previously I’ve used pdflatex to render my LaTeX
documents, but I’ve just come across latexmk, which
provides much more powerful options. Here’s a list of the commands
I make use of, taken from this guide by Matthias
Geier (mgeier).
latexmk -pdf [file] Generate a PDF file from a TeX
file. The -pdf option prevents the additional
generation of DVI
files, the machine-readable version of TeX. Omitting the file
name will generate all of the files in the current directory.
For a project I’m working on (I’ll make a post about it once
it’s done), I needed a large list of Japanese words, with the
requirements being that the words be short and without kanji (only
in hiragana). In addition, ideally they should be simple words that
the average Japanese learner would know, and must be in a
machine-readable format that I can use in JavaScript.
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