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Corla Plankun posted:i havent done latex in a while but when i was in grad school if i needed a chart i would make it as an svg with a more reasonable program and then include it as a pic in the latex doc I actually have that right now. The issue is that the fonts don't match, and one of the co-authors mentioned it in review.
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I have 2 friends who loving love LaTex and 1 who has that opinion (it sucks / is janky / causes workflow issues). Is there a Goon consensus on that because I have been using the 1 friend + laziness as an excuse not to go there.
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Jul 26, 2018 01:31
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it really loving sucks but it's still better than all the other options for what it does
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Jul 26, 2018 01:41
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pangstrom posted:I have 2 friends who loving love LaTex and 1 who has that opinion (it sucks / is janky / causes workflow issues). Is there a Goon consensus on that because I have been using the 1 friend + laziness as an excuse not to go there. Last time I checked, the goon consensus was "it's terrible but also better than the other options" (which I would agree with). In a lot of scientific communities you don't really have a choice on whether to use it or not though, so it kind of doesn't matter whether it's good or bad. Honestly if it just had any sort of macro hygiene it would be loads better. But it doesn't and it's probably too late to add it now. e: beaten by goon consensus, almost word-for-word
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Jul 26, 2018 01:41
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pangstrom posted:I have 2 friends who loving love LaTex and 1 who has that opinion (it sucks / is janky / causes workflow issues). Is there a Goon consensus on that because I have been using the 1 friend + laziness as an excuse not to go there. The results from Latex are fantastic, but it sucks to work with and hasn't really improved in twenty years.
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Jul 26, 2018 01:45
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lmao if you have to use word it’s so much worse in much different ways
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Jul 26, 2018 01:45
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Actually, because I'm a lazy turd, I usually use a combination of Lyx and one-off scripts for my document-generation needs. I tried to improve my Latex skills years ago, but even the book about it smells like BO and sour milk.
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Jul 26, 2018 01:59
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Thanks all.Peeny Cheez posted:How far up the Stallman Graybeard Scale are these two friends? pangstrom fucked around with this message at 02:29 on Jul 26, 2018 |
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Jul 26, 2018 02:05
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heres a latex protip: use Microsoft word instead
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Jul 26, 2018 02:07
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that isn't viable for disciplines that use math
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Jul 26, 2018 02:15
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pangstrom posted:Thanks all.
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Jul 26, 2018 02:21
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Does o365 work for collaboration at all It's kind of astounding that microsofts state of the art way to collaborate on docs is still "email them around"
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Jul 26, 2018 02:24
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maybe someone could make a language that compiles to latex, except that this new language would be less garbage? just throwing ideas out there
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Jul 26, 2018 02:42
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just write some Lisp for processing structured tagged text then write in that and write something to output LaTeX from it (or even directly output PDF)
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Jul 26, 2018 02:50
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Phobeste posted:Does o365 work for collaboration at all yeah but nobody has it setup right. if users have the ability to save documents locally they will.
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Jul 26, 2018 03:44
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Phobeste posted:Does o365 work for collaboration at all
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Jul 26, 2018 05:22
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the default latex font is so loving ugly, and instantly marks its users as being disgusting, aesthetically-inept goonlords
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Jul 26, 2018 07:55
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redleader posted:the default latex font is so loving ugly, and instantly marks its users as being disgusting, aesthetically-inept goonlords just override it to comic sans on system level
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Jul 26, 2018 07:57
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cinci zoo sniper posted:just override it to comic sans on system level i once spent an hour on a friday afternoon coding in papyrus. it was somewhat amusing
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Jul 26, 2018 08:04
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Jabor posted:it really loving sucks Also lol no* other choice in academia. *For simple things you might actually transpile something into LaTeX 
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Jul 26, 2018 08:26
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Xarn posted:Also lol no* other choice in academia. depends on your field life sciences for instance is firmly ms word land
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Jul 26, 2018 08:36
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VikingofRock posted:I actually have that right now. The issue is that the fonts don't match, and one of the co-authors mentioned it in review. Lol what a li'l bitch
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Jul 26, 2018 09:15
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c tp s: i really don’t like working with relational data structures in pandas so im now experimenting with local mssql server installation to avoid committing war crimes to our dwh
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Jul 26, 2018 09:18
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redleader posted:i once spent an hour on a friday afternoon coding in papyrus. it was somewhat amusing Ex coworker used to chose in comic sans full time. Idk if he was doing it ironically, or as some kind of counter-culture thing? He said he found it easier to read maybe he just has lovely eyesight
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Jul 26, 2018 09:22
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cinci zoo sniper posted:c tp s: i really don’t like working with relational data structures in pandas so im now experimenting with local mssql server installation to avoid committing war crimes to our dwh Sqlite my friend, its exactly for small local uses like this
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Jul 26, 2018 09:23
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cinci zoo sniper posted:c tp s: i really don’t like working with relational data structures in pandas so im now experimenting with local mssql server installation to avoid committing war crimes to our dwh i'm still amazed at how bad pandas seem to be in a load of ways
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Jul 26, 2018 09:32
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gonadic io posted:Sqlite my friend, its exactly for small local uses like this i was just looking for an excuse to play around with ssms, which nicely offsets my somewhat lacking dba-fu, and t-sql by extension. rationally i do understand that sqlite is almost tailored to the problem at hand
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Jul 26, 2018 10:09
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oh and yes guys, in case you were missing my job stories 1) our prod database for a different new product has died thrice this week, and replica by extension did starve on connections twice and today it did get a corrupted table due to planned activities in prod database so our dba decided to just reconstruct entire replica instead of fixing the problem 2) we have 53 people team with two senior managers that is fulfilling, in handwriting, Microsoft Word mail merge functionality. their solution to recent delays in processing time is to hire 50 more people
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Jul 26, 2018 10:13
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basically each agent has a list of customers assigned to them. they log into customer management panel in the morning, and start going one by one, manually, through customer account pages. if they see that customer has an invoice due, they print out a blank invoice reminder letter form, open customer personal detail page, and write down their details, by hand, into the form, and the gold it into an envelope and write the customer’s address on it, by hand. two letters per customer. total volume of hundreds, if not thousand, per day.
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Jul 26, 2018 10:16
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i wish i was making this poo poo up. their email reminders also are mail to links, that open email forms the agents manually fill in and manually send
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Jul 26, 2018 10:17
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gonadic io posted:Ex coworker used to chose in comic sans full time. Idk if he was doing it ironically, or as some kind of counter-culture thing? He said he found it easier to read maybe he just has lovely eyesight Proportional fonts are overall easier to read, yes. Comic Sans, though, still seems incredibly weird.
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cinci zoo sniper posted:basically each agent has a list of customers assigned to them. they log into customer management panel in the morning, and start going one by one, manually, through customer account pages. if they see that customer has an invoice due, they print out a blank invoice reminder letter form, open customer personal detail page, and write down their details, by hand, into the form, and the gold it into an envelope and write the customer’s address on it, by hand. two letters per customer. total volume of hundreds, if not thousand, per day. 
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cinci zoo sniper posted:basically each agent has a list of customers assigned to them. they log into customer management panel in the morning, and start going one by one, manually, through customer account pages. if they see that customer has an invoice due, they print out a blank invoice reminder letter form, open customer personal detail page, and write down their details, by hand, into the form, and the gold it into an envelope and write the customer’s address on it, by hand. two letters per customer. total volume of hundreds, if not thousand, per day. If you wrote a thing that just told them which customers did have invoices, nothing else, you'd be lauded as a god
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Jul 26, 2018 10:47
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gonadic io posted:If you wrote a thing that just told them which customers did have invoices, nothing else, you'd be lauded as a god thankfully it’s obvious to everyone in our department that we just make our dwh email csv with query results to a few interns to mail merge each morning and the problem is solved. unfortunately, the team of 53 is actually two teams of 18 and 35, each with a different senior manager, and the smaller one planning to hire extra people, and if i actually take like 2 hours to solve this problem forever right now then we will have a political crisis when two managers and an exec are together melting down that our department of heartless degenerates wants to fire good people who did nothing wrong or something like that
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cinci zoo sniper posted:thankfully it’s obvious to everyone in our department that we just make our dwh email csv with query results to a few interns to mail merge each morning and the problem is solved. unfortunately, the team of 53 is actually two teams of 18 and 35, each with a different senior manager, and the smaller one planning to hire extra people, and if i actually take like 2 hours to solve this problem forever right now then we will have a political crisis when two managers and an exec are together melting down that our department of heartless degenerates wants to fire good people who did nothing wrong or something like that lmao I feel your pain. we have an entire operations division who solve every problem by hiring people to run reports manually. combine that with incompetent management and offshore staff that measure self worth as 'number of people that report to me' and we have hundreds of people adding zero value one team has been manually processing a set of files that they were supposed to automate 4 years ago, the manual process doesn't even work but they're so dumb they just carry on cranking the handle
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Deep Dish Fuckfest posted:maybe someone could make a language that compiles to latex, except that this new language would be less garbage? sounds like an actual use-case for text-to-speech
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Jabor posted:Proportional fonts are overall easier to read, yes. comic sans is good for people with dyslexia, I forget why but it’s true.
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Jul 26, 2018 13:57
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Luigi Thirty posted:comic sans is good for people with dyslexia, I forget why but it’s true. most of the letters are too distinct to be confused for each other; they have different heights and the round/straight parts are drawn differently
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well then we really need to invent a font for people with dyslexia that isn't comic sans. the idea that there's a group of people out there who can only look at comic sans is heart wrenching.
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isn't the whole reason design purists hate it because of the inconsistency from one letter to the next?
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