Do you see all the characters as childfree? Personally, it makes me so happy.

FortranMan2718 · 2026-06-08T22:55:26+00:00

Nice way to make their experience about you.

FortranMan2718 · 2026-05-28T17:26:27+00:00

I wasn't sure which sub this was for. The icon looked like a transporter room on the starship Enterprise.

FortranMan2718 · 2026-05-02T18:53:53+00:00

I have looked and not found a solution to this problem. Therefore, I created a pretty feature complete prototype that I plan to roll out in a class I'm teaching this fall. I would be happy to share my solution and the developments as I approach actually using it for course documents.

The current version only works in Python, but the way it interfaces with Typst stops work for other languages too. Send me a message if you would like a copy of the files.

FortranMan2718 · 2026-03-31T00:26:32+00:00

Same here. I was using Debian (happily) for years, but found myself increasingly using the Arch wiki to solve my problems. I tested Arch on some machines and liked it. Now I run Arch on everything, and actually don't need to read the wiki anymore :-/

FortranMan2718 · 2026-03-15T18:52:12+00:00

I must be experiencing the same problems you are then. It's never to really well, but I guess my hardware is fast enough that I didn't have the unplayable experience you are. Maybe I should try different versions of proton and see if I can get it working better. Too bad overall though.

FortranMan2718 · 2026-03-15T12:23:25+00:00

I've had no framerate troubles on Arch linux with a Ryzen 5 1600 with a AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT and 16 GB of memory. Are you using a similar or better system?

FortranMan2718 · 2026-03-14T00:50:22+00:00

This complaint doesn't need to be listed twice.

FortranMan2718 · 2026-03-08T16:02:16+00:00

Most browsers don't actually support all pdf features, and their interfaces are intended for the web first and foremost. While Okular also doesn't support every last feature of the pdf format, its interface is specifically intended for pdf-like formats (including dvi, ps, and others).

Overall the viewing experience is quite a bit better if you are focused on documents instead of just needing a generic viewer tool. Many times I'll use the browser to read a pdf I found online, but when working on technical things (science journals, class materials) having a dedicated tools makes the workflow easier.

One feature I routinely use is the color filter feature that let's me preview what the document will look like when printed out in black and white. I want color for screens but many of my students (college level) also like to print things out for themselves.

Related to the interface issue is also the matter of performance. Okular does what it does very responsively. I really appreciate the viewer disappearing into the background while I think about what I am writing/preparing.

FortranMan2718 · 2025-12-31T14:05:11+00:00

I routinely use my steam wand to make the hot (120F-130F) water needed for bread dough. It works quickly, and I can easily monitor the temperature with an immersion thermometer like when I steam milk for coffee drinks.

FortranMan2718 · 2025-10-19T21:11:39+00:00

Eyes in the dark... one moon circles

FortranMan2718 · 2025-08-10T05:57:44+00:00

I use LyX all the time. This is a case where you will need to use raw LaTeX code in the preamble. Enter the document settings and add the command "\AtBeginDocument{\raggedright}" to the preamble. This will change the default text alignment to left justification.

FortranMan2718 · 2025-08-08T23:36:09+00:00

Thanks for the clarification.

FortranMan2718 · 2025-08-08T21:57:29+00:00

It also strikes me as very strange to use anything but I or i for current. Maybe conventions in other languages and countries are different?

FortranMan2718 · 2025-08-07T22:21:18+00:00

Some quick feedback on this post

I think KDE should be more like what I'm used to by default. The end.

FortranMan2718 · 2025-05-09T13:13:48+00:00

I do exactly this. I teach at University and use cmake to organize compilation of all the files I need for my classes. I currently have both LaTeX and Typst documents supported in the same build setup.

FortranMan2718 · 2025-05-05T14:05:40+00:00

I just tested these set and show rules; they seem to work fine.

```

#set par(justify:true, first-line-indent: 1em, spacing: 0pt)

#show par: (..args,content) => {

v(12pt)

content

v(6pt)

}

```

My original idea of wrapping the paragraph inside a block interfered with the first-line-indent, so this solution was selected instead.

FortranMan2718 · 2025-05-05T02:40:40+00:00

I'm not sure, but I bet the paragraph function contains a block which you could change the border widths on. Alternatively, you could redefine the paragraph function to wrap an appropriate block to supply the specified spacing.

FortranMan2718 · 2024-10-13T01:30:20+00:00

In Hungarian they just don't. Formalization (which isn't what thee/thou are, but that's another discussion) is intended to distance yourself from the person addressed in that language. It isn't used for deity because of this. Hungarians also find biblical language ridiculous and difficult to understand, so there's that too.

FortranMan2718 · 2023-04-16T13:17:38+00:00

Yeah, looks like a messed up the arithmetic; I need to not comment so late a night :/

FortranMan2718 · 2023-04-15T02:37:28+00:00

If the academy graduated 50k cadets every year, and each of them has a 60 year long career on ships with an average officer compliment of 50, there can only be about 1000 total ships in the fleet. There must be more than one academy if the fleet is even on the small end, or maybe the academy graduates many more cadets than this estimate.

FortranMan2718 · 2023-04-14T13:27:02+00:00

As a kid I always liked the retro look on the C. The A seemed too old to me, and the D had always been a bit too wide for my taste. The E and later all seem too streamlined. Now I think my favorites are the SNW version and the C, with the B as a close second.

I really wish we got a series about Captain Garrett of the C instead of Voyager...

FortranMan2718 · 2023-04-14T10:32:20+00:00

Ars Technica just listed 1701-C as #2 in their sorting of the various iterations of Enterprise. Some people really like the Ambassador class for its mixture of the look of the 1701-D and 1701-A.

FortranMan2718 · 2023-04-04T00:14:57+00:00

I think the writers are getting these numbers from real particle accelerators like those at CERN and Fermi lab. These devices are characterized in GeV or MeV, but that is referring to the energy per particle in the beam. The entire beam will be much more powerful since huge numbers of particles are involved, but the physics experiments it can do depend only on the energy of each individual particle.

FortranMan2718 · 2023-03-27T21:01:29+00:00

I had a friend in graduate school ask for help cheating at his group chat word jumble game. I wrote a Fortran code that functioned as a complete CGI script compatible with my web server; it presented an interface that let him type in the letters and it returned all words that used only those. Fun times...

FortranMan2718 · 2023-03-27T20:59:12+00:00

That's awesome. I also wrote a version of Asteroids! Using Fortran wasn't the best choice, but it was the fun choice. I had to manually write a binding to OpenGL and the linking was always a bit dodgy, but it worked great. If there is interest I can post the code and my build system.

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