https://twitter.com/BungaHead/status/1324899330893996036

    • vanityfairz [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      This nerd thinks being able to debug LaTeX makes you useful to society

      • TheUrbanaSquirrel [she/her]
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        4 years ago

        Speaking as someone who had to learn LaTeX for a work project, I upvoted this very hard. Fuck LaTeX. Knowing your way around a commercial kitchen griddle is a million times more useful.

          • blobjim [he/him]
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            4 years ago

            Its a text format for creating nice looking documents (like PDFs) and formatting math equations and so on. It's a more exact way of creating documents as opposed to a What You See is What You Get editor like Microsoft Word.

              • blobjim [he/him]
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                4 years ago

                I'm guessing because it looks like this. I've never actually used it though.

                • kilternkafuffle [any]
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                  4 years ago

                  Yep, it's like having to write in HTML to produce a frigging Word document.

                  <greeting>hi</greeting>

                  {punctuation}comma{/punctuation}

                  [body]does doing pointless tasks makes you want to[/body]

                  (capitalize)bash(/capitalize)

                  [body]your head against the wall[/body]

                  {punctuation}question_mark{/punctuation}

              • vanityfairz [he/him]
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                4 years ago

                Very steep learning curve to even getting to a comfortable proficiency, and it's compiled so when things fail it can be unclear as to why it's the case (especially the less experience you have with it). That and one missing \left and \right can break your entire document. It's cool though!

      • Lerios [hy/hym]
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        4 years ago

        Please god don't make me read the word LaTex capitalised in that nerd-ass bullshit way outside of lectures. I come here for sanctuary.

    • skeletorsass [she/her]
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      4 years ago

      Come over to my corner and play find the bug in 35 year old 6502 assembly codes with only comments written in messy roman character phonetic of the Shanghai Wu language.