Gregory's Server@liamvhogan Now googling LaTeX
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@julie @timrichards @liamvhogan sits alongside GIMP in the “software that would have wider adoption if it didn’t have such a stupid name” stakes   @KekunPlazas @ThermiteBeGiants @julie @timrichards @liamvhogan I'm always surprised when I can search for fuck's github page.  @shaknais @KekunPlazas @ThermiteBeGiants @julie @timrichards @liamvhogan yeah I'm sure there IS a rule 34 on that one but it's probably niche enough that the result you want comes up first @ThermiteBeGiants @julie @timrichards @liamvhogan +90% of mankind has no problem with those names 🤔 @CynAq @ThermiteBeGiants @julie @timrichards @liamvhogan Not necessarily; English is about my third ranked language I can express [hopefully] without too much trouble - vernacular expressions like "a gimp" are just amusing or interesting when put into context, but by no means any hindering for using anything named as such.  @ThermiteBeGiants @julie @timrichards @liamvhogan whats wrong with the GIMP's name? i always thought it was short and beautiful @julie @timrichards @liamvhogan one of my classmates was using LaTeX for their homework and needed to use the card suit symbols, so searched for “latex suits” … while sitting in the front row of class   @ShadSterling @julie @timrichards @liamvhogan Back in 2005, when writing up my master thesis, in the lab, I needed a function for "substrings". @ShadSterling @julie @timrichards @liamvhogan Just before I started my teacher training I had a short placement in a primary school. During a history lesson on Queen Victoria the teacher did an image search for "Prince Albert" on the interactive whiteboard. Safesearch was off. @martinpallmann  @TeaKayB @martinpallmann @ShadSterling @liamvhogan @julie @timrichards it's a sad state of affairs when a person has reached adulthood without developing the ctrl-w close tab muscle memory @jackeric @TeaKayB @jackeric @martinpallmann @liamvhogan @julie @timrichards I would always screw in my VGA plugs. I hope that hadn’t been done in this case  @ShadSterling @TeaKayB @jackeric @martinpallmann @liamvhogan @julie @timrichards @dec23k @jackeric thanks for teaching me what ctrl-w does it took me a while to find this again to respond to it, though @musiciankate there's so many shortcuts that are so unobvious! like, I've been using computers pretty much daily for thirty years now. y'know Ctrl-A for "select all", that one comes up in the right-click menu, pretty easy to find. but I only learned Ctrl-D for "select the word the cursor's on" a couple weeks ago @TeaKayB @liamvhogan @julie @timrichards @ShadSterling but this is how you learn and how the greatest inventions came to life: by accident discovery. @ShadSterling @julie @timrichards @liamvhogan and that's how you managed to get an anecdote for life 😅 @ShadSterling @julie @timrichards @liamvhogan Whoops! That reminds me of the classic Three Dead Trolls in a Baggie skit https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxrVrkO-pWiwnX2ERuN2iAlomawikQ22J5?si=XobHay0exap4tGIK . @julie @timrichards @liamvhogan It works better if you type the "X" as "Χ" and not "X".  @timrichards @liamvhogan It’s as boring as it sounds. 🤣 Unless you’re an academic who likes to typeset their own papers for publication. Then, it’s amazing!  @ramsey @timrichards @liamvhogan we even write our letters with latex at home. I'll see myself out ;) @piratenpanda @ramsey @timrichards @liamvhogan I do, too. @Garonenur @ramsey @timrichards @liamvhogan to be honest I find scrlttr2 really easy to use if you don't do complicated layout stuff @timrichards @liamvhogan While you’re at it, also check the more modern typst:   @timrichards @liamvhogan if you want a more modern version of the basic (excellent) idea, look at Basser Lout or typst |
@timrichards @liamvhogan ugh one of the first lessons of latex is careful about your google searches