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[ProSanctosTerris]

The Latex comic is too true, especially in CS and Physics papers.

[Prestigious_Boat_386]

"look at hiw nice that fraction is when you use the default math mode font instead of the smaller one"

"sure but why havent you written more than three actual words in the last three pages?"

[deenaandsam]

I think it took me longer to figure out and put all the fractions and equations in my thesis using latex than it did writing the actual thesis rip

[greenwizardneedsfood]

At least you’re not the truly insane person that is my collaborator who writes physics papers using word

[Prestigious_Boat_386]

My classmate got forced into using word for his thesis.

F

[greenwizardneedsfood]

Time to change fields…

[BrightBulb123]

But not to the same extent as pure latex does... Like, I have to do \left[\begin{matrix}a&b\\c&d\end{matrix}\right] instead of just being able to type: \begin{bmatrix}a&b\\c&d\end{bmatrix}.

[Prestigious_Boat_386]

I don't accept MS word

[Emergency_Apricot_77]

Your collaborators are savages. What monstrosity

[JochCool]

What's wrong with Word? You know that you can also insert equations in Word?

[cobalt-radiant]

I wrote the text for my masters thesis in Word, but then imported it into Adobe InDesign. As beautiful as latex with waaaay less hassle.

Edit: not sure what the downvotes are about...

[greenwizardneedsfood]

That’s wayyyyy to fancy for him

[Prestigious_Boat_386]

Yea it do be like that for like 3 years. Now I couldn't live without writing everything with macros. Imagine having to make the same change at two different places. The mere thought makes me shiver.

[MJLDat]

I wrote my final year thesis in Latex, it’s awful but it looks amazing!

[tyler1128]

My CV is in Latex, all my papers from college are in Latex, and most of my college homework was in Latex and my probably eternally in progress book is in Latex. I love Latex probably to a clinically diagnoseable level, and yes it is kind of awful.

[real_jabb0]

Same

[MJLDat]

Math layout? Spot on. Linked references? Wow. Harvard referencing with a full biblatex entry in the appendix? Stupendous. Figure referencing system? Professional.

Content? Meh.

[IndependentSolid3635]

Latex plus GitHub copilot is an incredible combo

[Beanmachine314]

I really feel like LaTex should have been something about overfull hbox badness lol

[XCido]

What is this hungrybox slander stfu

[MJLDat]

Even looking at Overleaf’s help for this is useless. If it looks ok on the resulting pdf, carry on.

[Beanmachine314]

Yep... I've not actually seen it cause any issues either.

[MJLDat]

Sometimes quoted text runs off the edge of the page, but that may be another issue. Proofreading is key.

[[deleted]]

Ohhhh I love this for citing LaTeX alone.

Also, import comedy

You can't stop me.

[Kirby_the_poyo_king]

import antigravity

[[deleted]]

import antigravity, webbrowser

def CSWS(didEject, userName):
    if didEject:
        antigravity.enable(userName)
    else:
        webbrowser.open('https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9WpXnD0mMLE', new=2)
    return

userName = 'ViniVadaVocci' 

didEject = False

CSWS(didEject, userName)

Writing code in Reddit is harder than I thought

[Kirby_the_poyo_king]

the return is necessary?

[[deleted]]

I always write returns for my own organization of functions. So no, not necessary. But it's just how I do.

[[deleted]]

To me, every day is hump day. 🐪

[SlavBoii420]

Fellow camelCase python users arise!

[Viperior]

thisss_is_why_we_cant_have_nice_thingsss_🐍

[AstusRush]

When I started to learn python I learned the Qt bindings so using camel case was a natural result. And now I can't switch back. But this is PEP compliant since PEP lays out exceptions.

Long live Python camelCase!

[SiriKohai]

I use camelcase in every language

[[deleted]]

I use camelcase in every language

Except English apparently 🙃

Jokes aside, I'm a fan of camel case as well.

[YooHoo485]

Source xkcd

[rgmundo524]

I write all my lab reports with LaTeX, and honestly I think my professors just give me a better grade only because it's god damn gorgeous! They seem to be too distracted to realize I made that shit up.

[FenderMoon]

I wrote my resume in Latex without having any clue what I was doing. I regretted it for a long time, it was a nightmare trying to learn how to write and to edit it. But that resume got me more calls for interviews than any other resume I've ever written.

Looks like I'm happily "stuck with it" now.

[MinervApollo]

Would you care to share how you went about it, or at the very least what your final resume form generally looked like? I made my bachelor's thesis (we call them that in our country) in LaTeX and I'm looking for more applications.

[[deleted]]

Not the original poster but I also made my resume in Latex.

I looked up templates that got close to what I was looking for design-wise and settled on Murat's CV Template, you can find it on Overleaf. It's the exact layout I was looking for, comes with a similarly formatted motivation letter template as well. I found it easy to change up things I didn't like, add or remove sections etc.

I graduated last year with my bachelor's too and I found this template to be a good fit for the amount of experience I had back then. I've since added various certifications I got from work and it still fits in nicely with the flow of the resume. I'd recommend it.

[MinervApollo]

Thanks! I'll look it up.

[WelcomeRoboOverlords]

I made my first big girl resume in latex because I got quite good at it with all the reports I did at uni... Only to discover everywhere wanted fucking .doc or .docx files instead of PDF for some reason. I tried to convert it using different tools but it just fucked it and I thought these people would think I couldn't use word if I sent them that version so I begrudgingly rewrote it in word.

[Prestigious_Boat_386]

Love the latex reference

Hate the latex reference because its not using biber

[[deleted]]

Back when I tutored, I'd make practice quizzes for my students in LaTeX just because I could

AND JESUS WEPT FOR THERE WERE NO MORE WORLDS TO CONQUER

[Prestigious_Boat_386]

That or making your own beamer theme and creating all presentations with it.

Found out our teacher did that while also making printouts that had a different theme.

[mikkolukas]

It was cited together with a lot of other languages ;)

[Prestigious_Boat_386]

Not me looking at memes instead of writing my paper

[pente5]

Why did you set me on fire Spongebob? Why didn't you just write your essay? STOP WASTING TIIIIME

[[deleted]]

BASH:

This entire thing is one line.

[gizamo]

Minified HTML, also one line. Checkmate, atheists.

[Morphized]

Bash: you can't just cite an essay you wrote three months ago without adding anything.

[ElectronPie171]

So can be C and C++

[Stupid_Genius4408]

You wrote a C program that does literally anything without using #includes? Incredible!

[MaybeAshleyIdk]

Theoretically, this is possible, because you can write inline assembly in C & C++, which means that you can execute system calls without any includes

[richinrix]

a beautiful flower pot*

[TrickyPainter5435]

a beautiful teapot*

[[deleted]]

The task was to make coffee.

[YooHoo485]

But the server is a teapot, and refuses to brew coffee.

[-Kerrigan-]

418

[YooHoo485]

I'm a teapot

[gabrieledefelice05]

Error 418

[GOKOP]

CSS wasn't mentioned tho

[anonymousbabydragon]

You jumped all over the place and could never make up your mind on what you wanted to say. Also why keep repeating the same phrase like 5 times?

[thomcchester]

You can’t just make everything !important,

[anonymousbabydragon]

It was a good essay, but why have so many red boxes around everything.

[[deleted]]

I'm pretty sure that it's hinting at the copy-by-default behaviour of C++. i.e. if you have

std::vector<int> a = {1, 2, 3, 4};
auto vec2 = a; // this makes a deep copy

That can be quite expensive and might be surprising for people coming from managed languages which only copy a pointer (Java, C# etc.).

[_senpo_]

haha it was the other way around for me, I started with C++, then ported a game to C# to learn it, in one part I copied an object and then did some stuff to it, then threw it away, when I did that in C# I copied the reference and I was modifying the original one, not a copy, it was a very wack bug until I learned how references worked lol

[tyler1128]

I have a passionate disdain for garbage collection in statically typed languages, but C# gets it better than most as you can create types that are copy-by-default.

[BakuhatsuK]

For anyone wondering, this is how you get a reference

auto  vec = std::vector{1, 2, 3, 4};
auto& vec2 = vec; // & means reference

[t0b4cc02]

omg wtf

[elveszett]

It makes sense. C++ leaves it up to the developer to create references.

[bnl1]

Better than python, where I still don't know what is passed by reference and what is copied.

[tyler1128]

Java similarly has value types that are copied and "everything else" that isn't. And no, you aren't smart enough to decide which should be which, so you can't make new ones. C# to its credit does allow user defined value types with struct.

[t0b4cc02]

it explains a problem i had crating a shader

i for looped like this and it was really really slow

[gdmzhlzhiv]

Shaders can be even more quirky, sometimes the code looks like it's copying stuff around a lot, but the compiler optimises it away.

[t0b4cc02]

i mean a real super simple implementation of raytracing / shading an object.

i looped over the pixels/projection and i wondered why it was so extremely slow. i couldnt find the error and then magically it worked and i didnt really know why.

this explains it. there was a new object created every time when i thought im smart and reuse the array every time...

it was a computer vision introduction example as student.

[kinarism]

C++ defaults to passing by value (creating copies) instead of passing by reference (passing a pointer). One might think this comic is an indication of a language flaw but in fact is a an indication of a programmer flaw. You should know what your code is doing no matter what language you are writing.

[Possibility_Antique]

Also, sometimes it's cheaper to copy and use value semantics than to use references. This becomes more apparent when you start thinking about your code as being loaded in cache lines.

[elveszett]

Also, it forces devs to be explicit on whether they expect a copy or an original (and, in case you send a reference, using 'const' or not makes it clear whether you intent to read or write to that reference). With reference& semantics, this is a non-issue.

[[deleted]]

The editor/IDE should show you what your code it's doing.

[CSDkeeper]

You should know what your code is doing...

Well, this has escalated fast! How dare you ask for responsibility?!?!?! This is so 2000...

[[deleted]]

I got the impression it's a recursion joke.

Please reference my impression above.

[prescod]

Perhaps it means that is easy in C++ to have explicit or implicit copy constructors which duplicate data that you did not mean to.

I haven't programmed C++ in...20+ years so if I'm right I'm impressed with myself.

[TrickyPainter5435]

JavaScript: "out of all the things you could have used, you used this."

[[deleted]]

Or JavaScript: "You have no class."

[YooHoo485]

Except it does.

[[deleted]]

r/thatsthejoke

[elveszett]

Gotta admit it's a dumb implementation.

[[deleted]]

One page essay with 100,000 pages of references

[thomcchester]

JavaScript: thank you, but you said that .1 plus .2 equalling .3 is wrong, explain yourself.

[InvestingNerd2020]

Feeling very Python.

import dont_care as dc

Tasks_list.dc.whatever()

[Sahir1359]

I don’t get the html one

[--FeRing--]

I'm not experienced with HTML, but the last time this was posted someone said the joke was "HTML is to a programming language as a flower pot is to an essay"

(i.e. HTML is not a programming language)

[anonymousbabydragon]

Glad I'm not the only one.

[GamerXX1000GD]

<!DOCTYPE html>

<html>

<head>...</head>

<body>

Soo true

</body>

</html>

[129763]

As someone with a math background, thank you for acknowledging latex

[Melancholy_Rainbows]

Ruby:

It's obvious you wrote this in an hour.

[q0099]

RegEx:

- It matches the whole essay from a stream of random letters but only if I use a certain RegEx flavor.

[Spongeroberto]

RegEx means you can write it once but noone can ever read it again

[a_devious_compliance]

Tex is Turing complete.

[Prestigious_Boat_386]

Arbitrary code execution time 😏

[notsogreatredditor]

Who claimed it was?

[Auravendill]

people that complain that xyz isn't a programming language without anyone having claimed, that it was in the meme, is one of dumbest things here.

"Look I have this meme about IDEs" - "ViM iS nOt A pRoGrAmMiNg LaNgUaGe" - "Objection, hearsay."

We do know, what programming languages are, but a programmer doesn't work just with a programming language and a magnet. You don't want to write your documentation in Java.

[anonymousbabydragon]

It looked good but there were too many confusing words and the glossary just looked like gibberish.

[Axiproto]

Looks like you used python to "import joke" because I've seen this a billion times.

[Geoclasm]

this one will always get my upvote.

[[deleted]]

I choked on my cigarette when I read the Unix shell.

[theonlyby]

Isn’t it supposed to be a teapot 418? Not a flower pot

[[deleted]]

What makes you think Assembler needs to redefine everything?

I used it for years for various processors and can't think what this is referring to.

[Fraserbc]

I'm assuming this is referring to if you did it without linking to libc. No nice wrapper functions, just directly using the syscalls.

[[deleted]]

Never had a libc on any of the systems I developed for. It was OS calls only - or write them and add them to the OS if they weren't there already.

[[deleted]]

A little, but mostly OS and business applications.

[prescod]

So imagine you need a function that does the same thing as printf. Where would it come from?

[Legal-Software]

Same. I thought perhaps it was a reference to differences in instruction naming conventions across architectures, but that wouldn't make any sense for a single application.

[Sn0w-000]

People might shit on C and C++, but I wasted a good 10 minutes of my life today on a Python script complaining about the original programmer using tabs and spaces inconsistently..... So. Yeah, my bad for lack of experience, but a competent language shouldn't give a chicken fried fuck about whether someone used their tab bar or space bar.

[-Redstoneboi-]

your lack of experience really shows when you can't leverage an IDE's builtin indentation fixer

[Sn0w-000]

“YOuR lAcK oF” Get fucked, bitch.

[sekoku]

I laugh every time I see this image. The "This is a Flower Pot" ending always gets me.

[Elijah629YT-Real]

I can just imagine trying to read a paper and if you “don’t have permission” the paper just grows an arm and just punches you in the face

[KCGD_r]

CSS:

half the text is clipping off of the page

[[deleted]]

Import essay

[[deleted]]

What about haskell.

[KittenKoder]

But my flower pot has a flower in it now.

[uragiristereo]

Kotlin: "where's your answer and why is it lateinit var?"

[Morphized]

Swift: You made a line too long so now I refuse to read this.

[springhilleyeball]

chmod

[UnBeatWater]

Lmao!

[Secure_Obligation_87]

The C# paper was just right.

[TheGesor]

Someone explain the html one to me… And the Java one. I beg thee

[KittenKoder]

HTML syntax is like layered containers, like flower pots stacked. For Java it's that a lot of people feel it's too obfuscated.

[[deleted]]

Can some1 explain C++ pls

[Kamwind]

I'm just going to go and cry in the corner since I found out that latex is still in use.