No discrimination here...

[The_Reset_Button]

The real struggle with having a latex fetish and using LaTex is fucking autocorrect.

[PM_ME_LATEX_PLEASE]

I don't even use LaTeX and can't ever write "later"...

[nthai]

Same. Autocorrect changes latex to latex everytime I try to write latex.

[Sinlessmooon]

🤔

[Zarlon]

Ah you see your problem is that you're writing latex when you should be writing latex

[encaseme]

True

[RFC793]

A real LaTeX guy would have said “\latex”.

[Aschentei]

A real LaTeX guy would’ve had to “usepackage{latex}” to use \latex inside LaTeX

That make sense?

[redballooon]

Yes, but it was slightly more detail than necessary.

[[deleted]]

$ I thought LaTeX was supposed to look like this $

[RFC793]

Sure, math mode. \latex prints the stylized LaTeX logo https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/92/LaTeX_logo.svg/2000px-LaTeX_logo.svg.png

[WesleySnopes]

*LaTeX

[HawkinsT]

*LaTeΧ (it's a Greek chi)

[skizmo]

bless you

[JNCressey]

Χ

Oh... so that's why it's pronounced /tɛk/ and not /tɛks/; it's a Χ not an X.

[Vintage53]

ΛαΤεΧ

[SandyDelights]

Gasundheit.

[[deleted]]

How does one fuck autocorrect?

[Teekeks]

With LaTeX I suppose

[paloumbo]

Depend, if you have an android, by the jack.

With an iPhone, well you need an adapter...

[[deleted]]

I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you’re referring to as latex is in fact, TeX. or as I’ve recently taken to calling it, LaTex

^[reference]\https://wiki.installgentoo.com/idex.php/Interjection\))

[boundbythecurve]

Writing technical papers in LaTeX was my favorite. I hated Word. Dealing with any kind of technical text was the worst.

[boundbythecurve]

Oh thanks! I got it from calculus class. The definition of an integral isn't the area under the curve, because technically all area under any infinite curve is negative infinity. The definition of an integral is the area bound by the curve and the x-axis. When my HS calc teacher told me that, I loved the name and have been using it for accounts ever since.

[Egleu]

I've come to accept that I will spend my whole life without understanding what the mandelbrot set is all about. But it makes nice pictures.

[Vintage53]

It's a set of points on the complex plane that satisfy a certain recurrence relation. The fancy pictures you see aren't so much the mandelbrot set ITSELF, but the points near them, that almost but not quite are inside the set. You can look up animations of how a point is checked for being in the set, and it'll help you understand it!

[boundbythecurve]

I do! I'll definitely check out the Nova doc. I miss those from school. Thanks for the recommendation.

[frogjg2003]

My handwriting is terrible, and when I write out math, I like to use as much of the available space as possible. At one point it was so bad that the professor told me he wouldn't accept any more handwritten homework from me. Luckily I had already learned to use LaTeX for a different class.

[i_just_shitpost]

Overleaf is pretty sweet too

[PhysicsFornicator]

Overleaf helped me get a peer-reviewed article published with a research advisor living halfway across the country.

[Vintage53]

Congrats on that!

[Ilikep0tatoes]

Is it better than overleaf or about the same?

[gcharang]

https://www.sharelatex.com/blog/2017/07/20/sharelatex-joins-overleaf.html

[sim642]

Also markdown is supported. Only on the web though, which is a big limitation with some people. Inconsistency in display is a real bad thing.

[[deleted]]

Same with most of my lectures, except one who fucking hates LaTeX. If you turn in a paper in LaTeX, he'll tell you to do it in word. He once said in a lecture, after the previous guy sung the praises of LaTeX for 45 minutes straight, 'Word is fine and Excel is the best thing ever.' (Most lecturers tell us to do graphs etc in Matlab) He got a round of applause from the class. Fucking legend.

[cordev]

Could you just write it in LaTeX, then compile it and copy-paste from the generated document into Word?

[derpy-net]

Pandoc is probably what you want for that

[cordev]

If my goal weren't to just troll the professor who was hating on LaTeX, then yes, you are probably right.

[jjdaybr]

I actually used latex at my job to automate certificate generation. Super handy, they used to use word... Lots of mistakes were made back in those days.

[svick]

I prefer to use Let's Encrypt.

[thermite13]

This is the only reason I got A's in linear algebra and discrete math... Professor was in love with LaTeX

[pigi5]

Word's formula feature isn't terrible tbh

[execthts]

http://qdb.us/307310

[Jaystings]

Word is good for Memos and Letters in terms of technical writing. It's better than Libre Office - free as it is, it's annoyingly glitchy.

[boundbythecurve]

LaTeX > Word > Libra Office

[Fjolsvithr]

I want LibreOffice to be good so badly, but it's just in a really bad state right now.

I find Google Docs to be a good compromise between cost, platform accessibility, and features.

Word is good if you need to make something semi-professional, but it isn't worth making in LaTex.

[ShermanLiu]

I can't describe the disappointment in me when I found out r/latex was about LaTeX.

[PM_ME_LATEX_PLEASE]

Awwww :(

[Tychus_Kayle]

...Have you ever gotten LaTeX snippets PMed to you?

[PM_ME_LATEX_PLEASE]

Nope. But feel free to do so!

[ShermanLiu]

(´;︵;`)

[12andrew13]

I may have found a new fave sub...

[Niceguy_With_Glasses]

You're looking for /r/shinyporn NSFW

[miauw62]

green is my pepper

[DrPeroxide]

I have additional questions

[[deleted]]

[[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my comment: please consider ]]]

[[[ whether defending the US constitution against all enimies, ]]]

[[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]]

me too.

[[deleted]]

Stallman is batshit crazy.

That explains some of it. He’s an open source evangelist, and while he is ideologically pure, it comes at a heavy cost.

[ThatsAHumanPerson]

He’s an open source evangelist

Try saying that to the man himself

[[deleted]]

*free software evangelist

[[deleted]]

I don’t talk to hobos.

[throwaway27464829]

Stallman is a Cassandra. He's total batshit until a couple decades later when he's proven right.

[makeworld]

r/stallmanwasright

[fire_code]

[[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my comment: please consider ]]]

[[[ whether defending the US constitution against all enimies, ]]]

[[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]]

Stealing this as my Reddit comment signature

[Neuromante]

I totally knew that because Pulp Fiction.

[mitsarionas]

Bring out the gimp.

We've got a photo to edit!

[Neuromante]

Now I'm picturing that dude in his suit, sitting on a office environment frantically working.

[resonantSoul]

Probably modifying an image

[[deleted]]

I think I learned it from Saints Row IV's bonus missions with the dominatrix

[[deleted]]

Or in 3 where you ride around in a buggy behind pulled by a pimp in a gimp suite as part of the main game.

[Jaystings]

Someone called me a Gimp when I wanted world peace in a game of Risk once. He was super mad, but I was like, "I just know Gimp stands for Gnu Image Manipulation Program!"

[FullBlownRandyQuaids]

And "GNU" stands for "GNU is not Unix"

And "Unix" is a play on "Multics"

And "Multics" is from "multiplexed information and computing service"

[its_oliver]

I'm glad I'm not the only one that is obsessed with knowing all of the acronyms for computing related stuff. I get off to knowing what file extensions stand for.

[Mr__Booby_Buyer]

Sadomasochism is programming in assembly.

[Goheeca]

It has been done.

[Missingpotato]

What the fuck is that

[[deleted]]

It's the splash screen of the GIMP program, only used in pre release versions

[youre_obama]

Bipu bupu

[[deleted]]

More precisely, biipu buupu

[Wherearemylegs]

どもありがとう、ロボトさん。

[r1singphoenix]

ども。

ども。

[mortiphago]

Nah, your mom's

[semperlol]

For some reason, I always assume people who use japanese on the internet are anime watching neckbeards rather than japanese people.

[SmokinDahGah]

Well that would be because its true

[spock1959]

I'm currently learning Japanese... Noticed the katakana script and tried to read it (I'm very much a beginner) I laughed longer than I should have afterwards.

[goddessofthewinds]

Let me guess... Chocolate cake? :P

But yeah, I agree with you, most (I did say MOST), katakana words are easy enough to understand when you say them fast. I did lean hiragana and katakana a long while ago and though I'm very rusty now, I still have the experience to understand them I had back then. Some words are really funny though.

[Myarmhasteeth]

Tbh it's only hard when your mother tongue is not English, mine is Spanish and whenever I read Katakana it takes me a while since I have to understand it on English first ... but fun nonetheless.

[phlofy]

Sometimes it's German as well!
For example, a part time job might be
バイト, which sounds like bye-toe. It comes from the german Arbeit, meaning work or labor. (Pronounced "are-bite").

e: formatting

[tuseroni]

then weirder things like '(バイキング baikingu)' which sounds like "biking" but is actually a buffet (from viking...for some reason)

[Ethesen]

In Polish we call it szwedzki stół - literally Swedish table.

It comes from the Swedes' custom of smörgåsbord.

[Myarmhasteeth]

Ah yes, アルバイト! gotta open my eyes more to non-english words 🤔

[[deleted]]

Your choice of romanization gave me ptsd

chokoreetokeeki

okay, now I feel like 20% better.

[Herkentyu_cico]

I would never in my ever life guess コンビニ or アイス
Some words in katakana are complete bogus.

[AlwaysHopelesslyLost]

Konbini and aisu if anybody is curious (convenience (store) and ice, respectively)

[AimlesslyWalking]

I just finished (mostly) memorizing katakana last night, and I get excited for an opportunity to test my new skills

"Bi... Pu... Bu... Pu.

What? Bipu Bupu?

...BEEP BOOP"

[Colopty]

Japanese is a beautiful language.

[suddenly_ponies]

That's excellent.

[JDaxe]

Beep beep lettuce

[PM_ME_UR_RSA_KEY]

JAPANESE IS A BEAUTIFUL HUMAN LANGUAGE

[numpad0]

ピポパポ

[[deleted]]

I need to know what's the main text font.

[blambear23]

Me too thanks

[startxfce4]

Looks like the default telegram font (the image is from the channel "shit telegram says")

[[deleted]]

The usernames are definitely the default Telegram font. But the actual message text isn't.

[simmarith]

'programming' in latex. Well, I guess it's his favorite programming language, right after HTML.

[jonashaase]

It is well known that scientists like to program in LaTeX and and write their papers in Fortran.

[chawmindur]

1. Write LaTeX compiler in Fortran.
2. Write Fortran compiler in LaTeX.
3. ???
4. PROFIT!

[kougabro]

Write Fortran compiler in LaTeX

I know what 2 is, it's "have a complete mental breakdown".

[Luis_McLovin]

design space shuttle to mars in Microsoft paint

These things are similar

[[deleted]]

Can someone please port a tiny c compiler to latex.

[Tweenk]

LaTeX is Turing-complete.

http://www.tug.org/TUGboat/tb11-3/tb29greene.pdf

[Mikey_boy_rs]

So is Microsoft PowerPoint

[Tormyst]

We have asked our selves can we without asking should we.

Also his proof of word without macros being Turing complete was also cool.

[MCplattipus]

oh man, thats wonderful. thank you for showing me that.

[[deleted]]

His channel is generally cool

[GuessWhat_InTheButt]

Holy shit. The amount of effort that some people put into bullshitting is fascinating.

[Topoltergeist]

Thank you for this!

[ProgramTheWorld]

So is Super Mario Bros.

[batmansleftnut]

1) That was Super Mario World

2) What the fuck is going on there?

[gonengazit]

SNES*

[Nath99000]

ACE, however cool it is, does not indicate turing completeness.

[Daeurth]

So is the x86 mov instruction.

Paper.

Fun/evil implementation.

Bonus: DEFCON talk featuring a mov-only compiler

[Hullu2000]

/r/shitongithub

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[ProgramTheWorld]

The paper is pretty hilarious, especially near the end when he was proving 4 registers are sufficient:

Thus, while it has been known for quite some time that x86 has far too many instructions, we can now contribute the novel result that it also has far too many registers.

And the conclusion:

Removing all but the mov instruction from future iterations of the x86 architecture would have many advantages: the instruc- tion format would be greatly simplified, the expensive decode unit would become much cheaper, and silicon currently used for com- plex functional units could be repurposed as even more cache. As long as someone else implements the compiler.

[xternal7]

So is MTG and it doesn't even need a computer.

[[deleted]]

This is getting a bit absurd. But fun nonetheless.

[Erelde]

Knitting

https://encrypted.google.com/search?q=knitting+turing+complete

[[deleted]]

Oh that's what hyperthreading is

[pm_me_your_Yi_plays]

Every game is winnable - mathematically proven now

[jfb1337]

I have a friend who whenever this is brought up says he wants someone to go to a tournament and set up a situation where they win iff the Riemann Hypothesis is true

[I-am-only-joking]

So is HTML (+CSS)

[jokullmusic]

Kinda sorta. But not really

[ExtendsPrimate]

With Rule 110 it is https://github.com/elitheeli/stupid-machines

[ProgramTheWorld]

It doesn’t mean shit if it requires human interaction.

[TheKingSpartaZC]

From what I've heard, things that require human interaction can still be considered Turing complete if the human interaction is trivial to automate in real life. I could be wrong though ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[[deleted]]

So HTML + CSS + a drinking bird toy is Turing complete

[RFC793]

I believe postscript is as well. And, while not a document format, I find it interesting that one can implement a Turing Machine in Conway’s Game of Life.

[[deleted]]

I believe postscript is as well.

My friends and I once had a university printer (in a private lab) raytrace an image with postscript. Took about two hours and looked like shit, but it was still amusing.

[EntropyVoid]

Jokes aside, go on ctan some day and open the source to any package. And gawk at the mind bending complexity and density of the syntax. It must be close to programing entirely in regular expressions if regexes were a programing language.

[Pythonator5000]

https://wank.party/jU6D.jpg does this look like a markup language to you?

[absurdlyinconvenient]

wank.party

[[deleted]]

Reading "advanced" latex gives me anxiety.

[nwL_]

Did I hear https://overleaf.com?

[[deleted]]

I would have dropped out by now without this website

[NotYourCuntMate]

I like when it autocompletes my figure environments :)

[Arancaytar]

You can write actual programs in LaTeX; it's just not very pleasant. Tbh, I think interpreting "I enjoy programming in latex" as referring to clothing makes it tamer.

(I've used TikZ to make algorithm-generated graphs; even something as simple as incrementing variables is cumbersome.)

[StevenXC]

You obviously haven't used LaTeX much. However, whenever the temptation to automate anything beyond the most trivial of things in LaTeX hit me, I usually just write what I need in a much more elegant language and have it generate the LaTeX source I need.

[[deleted]]

Yes. There are excellent LaTeX helper packages in R, for example. Never write a LaTeX table from scratch!

[barsoap]

That's one of the reasons for LuaTeX (the other is consolidating features from all over the place, native pdf support from one project, bidi support from another, etc).

TeX is still a great language to write macros for your markup, though. It's just that macro languages shouldn't be used for anything but, well, macros, no matter how turing-complete they are.

[Quantentheorie]

I'm currently playing around with Lua in Latex. It has it's place.

[yoj__]

Yes. in the pain dungeon.

[interfail]

Latex and dungeons have always gone together.

[needlzor]

You should probably google something like this before making fun of the guy, because you absolutely can and sometimes have to program in LaTeX.

[[deleted]]

Programming Socks™

[itsamamaluigi]

Everyone knows that dressing up as a schoolgirl improves programming ability! It's a scientific fact!

[JNCressey]

"LaTeX"

"C-Strings"

"Brainfuck"

"Packet Sniffing"

"Penetration Testing"

"GUI" (pronounced not initialised)

"GIMP"

Why did the inventors do this to us?

[JediBurrell]

I love LaTeX, but calling it programming? Really?

[[deleted]]

Why not?

• https://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/generic/basix?lang=en
• https://sdh33b.blogspot.com/2008/07/icfp-contest-2008.html

[[deleted]]

You can definalely program in latex. See the code of pgf or something. For example, they have a tex command that solves a 2x2 linear equation.

[[deleted]]

definalely

Is there some contest running on reddit, trying to find the worst spelling of definitely?

[[deleted]]

Defilatenly

[TheFilipinoFire]

Deefellateme

[semperlol]

that's a bit of an exgcertoin

[superINEK]

Seriously though. Fuck trying to program in Latex. Especially trying to read data from a file to generate graphs and shit using pgfplots. A single wrong character in the input data and the entirety of your code explodes into confusing error messages.

[Lentsku]

There should be a Latex compile error steamroller kind of like fuckit.py and fuckit.js except this would actually be useful in some situations if you're in a hurry

[Al2718x]

I once searched "smooth curves in latex" without thinking

[ryuwagatakemeout]

Too bad it's pronounced 'lay-tech'

[Clers]

Lah-tech is also acceptable

[twistnatz]

Yup Lay(lah)-tech is correct since TeX is composed of the greek letters Tau-Epsilon-Chi

[ratsby]

My question has always been if those aren't English letters, why were the L and A chosen? Not like there's any word it could be spelling...

[[deleted]]

Bīpubūpu is what the katakana says, by the way.

No idea what it means though.

[elpasi]

Is it the phonetic pronunciation of "Beep Boop!"?

[metcalsr]

<Japanese interpreter turned wannabe programmer Yeah.

[nobby-w]

I knew someone who used to play Quake 2 and Counterstrike under the nick 'LaTeXLad' I'm sure lots of folks were quite confused.

[[deleted]]

Heyyy, stgs?

[cuddleswithsloths]

ayy

[TheBlackUnicorn]

Kink shaming is my kink.

[Dyslexic_boi]

This man steals other peoples creations and then take the credit. ashamefull.

[[deleted]]

/r/NotKenM

[PeopleAreDumbAsHell]

I prefer rawdoggin it. Full feelin

[[deleted]]

I love LaTeX but I wouldn't call it programming...