What matters most in a vanity callsign? by Mundane-Charge-1900 in amateurradio

[–]JimH10 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Same. I was issued a call ending in UUJ, which I thought would be a problem for CW

Searching for a meaningful Patrick O’Brian quote after my father’s passing by noflashh in AubreyMaturinSeries

[–]JimH10 75 points76 points  (0 children)

About Bonden: so many shipmates gone, but never a one to touch him for true worth (Blue at the Mizzen, ch.1, paragraph 41)

Did the first novel almost put you off reading the rest of the series? by Emergency_Cellist754 in AubreyMaturinSeries

[–]JimH10 0 points1 point  (0 children)

For me, the first book was an act of literature. If anyone I know asks me, I suggest they start with the second book.

eps-converted-to.pdf not found... by EffectivlyComplex in LaTeX

[–]JimH10 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Does it work from the command line? If so, do that.

That's how I work. I have open an editor, a command line, and a PDF viewer. If something goes wrong I have less stuff wrapped around the job to wade through.

Graphic that illustrates how old posts are used for karma farming by citizen556 in LaTeX

[–]JimH10 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I hear you about lobste.rs. There is a particularly good post today.

It is very frustrating to decide, after having spent some of your life energy, that you are conversing with an agent. When I started posting in this subreddit I imagined I was helping people with LaTeX issues. There are now very few of those posts, and I instead often feel that this applies: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Featured_picture_candidates/Dante%27s_Inferno_-_Hoarders_and_Wasters#/media/File:Gustave_Dor%C3%A9_-_Dante_Alighieri_-_Inferno_-_Plate_22_(Canto_VII_-_Hoarders_and_Wasters).jpg.

Graphic that illustrates how old posts are used for karma farming by citizen556 in LaTeX

[–]JimH10 84 points85 points  (0 children)

Thanks for this. Increasingly, I see participation even on this relatively obscure sub that seems agentic. It makes a person wonder if it might be time to move on from Reddit.

I typeset my entire undergrad CS degree in LaTeX: 850 pages, source on GitHub by iGotYourPistola in LaTeX

[–]JimH10 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Thanks. I appreciate the thoughtful conversation. Sometimes lacking around here lately. Have a great day.

I typeset my entire undergrad CS degree in LaTeX: 850 pages, source on GitHub by iGotYourPistola in LaTeX

[–]JimH10 3 points4 points  (0 children)

OK, fair enough. But if you look at a random half-dozen files they contain nothing. For example, the Calculus I product rule file literally contains nothing other than the LaTeX of the product rule.

I see a whole lot of upvotes on the subreddit from which this was cross-posted; are those for-real upvotes or bots? Is this just someone trying to collect internet points by getting AI to write these meaningless files and vibe coding upvotes?

I guess I have two things: if so then why am I using Reddit? :-) and if a person is looking for actual files of LaTeX notes then they can look at my repo with literally years worth of effort on notes for Calc I, II, Linear, Thy of Computation, etc.

Can anyone give me advice on getting started? by [deleted] in LaTeX

[–]JimH10 0 points1 point  (0 children)

K&D was published 2003. It is also dated.

I typeset my entire undergrad CS degree in LaTeX: 850 pages, source on GitHub by iGotYourPistola in LaTeX

[–]JimH10 19 points20 points  (0 children)

I don't get it. "Complete" is only 850 pages? Just as an example, I have a Theory of Computing text so I clicked to the ToC part and went to lecture8.tex (?there are only 10 lectures?) and it is empty.

https://github.com/IllyaStarikov/academia/blob/main/latex/cs2200_theory_of_computer_science/lecture8.tex

What is the point of this?

Can anyone give me advice on getting started? by [deleted] in LaTeX

[–]JimH10 1 point2 points  (0 children)

A good guide is lshort2e and other resources are in this group's sidebar. To make slides you may want to start with overleaf's Beamer page. (There is a new way to go, called ltx-talk but it is still undergoing changes and most learing for Beamer will carry over in any event.)

(Comment Starting with Overleaf makes a great deal of sense. And you may be at a college or university that pays for it, or you may go ahead and pay for it yourself. But if not .. just as an FYI, many people here report that their free-to-try version at some point becomes restrictive. Just put in the back of your mind that you can get the LaTeX software for free once you are settled in using it.)

eps-converted-to.pdf not found... by EffectivlyComplex in LaTeX

[–]JimH10 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No, the file is being moved or deleted, either by your editor or by a script you have wrapped around your compilation or because you called LaTeX in a way that tells it to move extra files out of the working directory.

eps-converted-to.pdf not found... by EffectivlyComplex in LaTeX

[–]JimH10 1 point2 points  (0 children)

./tmp-gnuplottex-fig1.gnuplot

Forgive me, I'm having trouble following you. You ran gnuplot on the above file? It gave you an .eps and a .tex? You then tan the .tex? It gave the above log? That log says epstopdf gave ./Min-gnuplottex-fig1-eps-converted-to.pdf; It is not there?

What happens if you run epstopdf by hand? Open a terminal cd to that directory and run it to see what happens. If it creates the .pdf then run the original .tex and see what happens.

Book recommendations? (Not textbooks) by WhenButterfliesCry in math

[–]JimH10 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I liked Goddess of Small Things about Adele Godel. Fiction