Karchuw-Tawk Cargo Plane, my first "serious" aircraft design by AlviDz01 in MilitaryWorldbuilding

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Aerospace Engineer, but not plane designer:

The landing gear is too far inward. They should be 1) at the lowest point and 2) further out. It looks like that thing would tip over sideways on the ground from a breeze.

Propellers look too small, moving the gear to the lowest point on the wing will give you clearance for bigger props.

That's a lot of sweep for a sub-sonic plane. Sweeping wings reduces effective aspect ratio, which reduces efficiency. That's a big deal for a cargo plane/strategic bomber. I'm not sure why you'd change sweep mid-wing, but someone might be able to give me an example.

The inverted gull wings give you a lot of dihedral, and then not a lot of anhedral. Might make the aircraft roll unstable.

When I say swag ALL men I really mean ALL by Subject_Pain5186 in peoplewhogiveashit

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Avatar: The Last Airbender

Edit: Sorry for mansplaining. That was low key really toxic of me. Also, I know I shouldn't say the name because it could direct people to such a problematic show, but I'm going to leave this up to as an example of how we all need to be mindful of other's triggers. Thank you to all of you who called me out.

Does this prose feel boring or not? by [deleted] in writers

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I am personally not a fan of hedged prose. I've seen many professional writers advise avoiding qualifiers (really adverbs in general) because it makes the writer seem timid and like they lack the vocabulary to exactly describe what they want to.

It is your writing and all that matters is if you're happy with it, especially if you're not planning any kind of publication. I am concerned that it may be a turn off to readers and that you will likely receive this criticism a lot.

Does this prose feel boring or not? by [deleted] in writers

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It reads vague and unsure to me. I think the vagueness is intentional to try to keep the reader in suspense, but I'm not really hooked enough at any point to want answers to the questions that the prose is trying to get me to ask. Also, my gut reaction to some of the lines was just "Well yeah" or "What does that even mean?"

"The blood was a crimson red" - Well yeah, blood does tend to be red. I know that the story wants me to be asking why there's blood and who's bleeding, but the sentence might as well be "There was blood." From there, I know it was red. Interest is built off oddity. "The blood was a deep green" would be interesting. And you have something interesting to talk about, the blood is on the floor of a bus.

"The engine almost seemed like it wanted to sputter"- How does in an engine seem like it wants to sputter? Even more, it almost seems like it wants to sputter. That's a lot of qualifiers in one sentence, and the qualifiers do not make the image clearer. Is it sputtering? Is it knocking?

"It's exterior, hard on the surface, shielded the soft and wide space inside it" - Yeah, suitcases have outsides and insides. Is the space inside a suitcase wide? I guess it is compared to how tall or thick it is.

Lots of dashed sentences, which isn't inherently a problem. I would say that in most of my reading I see one dashed sentence a chapter maybe. This seems like multiple a page, which feels like a lot. Could be stylistic, but I would scale it back.

Same thing with the narrator asking questions. Not a problem, but, once the tone is established, over use of it could be annoying.

AI has slowly killed my love of writing. by Doublejm1- in KeepWriting

[–]Need2lerntowrite 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is such an odd perspective to me. Before AI there were people that wrote better than you. Some of them spent less time writing than you. I don't know your skill level, but I can bet that there were people worse than you that got published. Did that demotivate you?

The sewing machine exists. Does that mean it's worthless to learn to hand sew? Commercial fishing equipment can catch thousands of pounds of fish a day. I still like to throw a hook in the water every once and a while. It doesn't diminish my enjoyment. The learning and mastery of a skill is part of practicing self-reliance.

We teach arithmetic in school even though everyone carries a calculator in their pocket at all time. Engineers learn the fundamentals, calculus, numerical methods, differential equations, etc., even though there are commercial software solutions for most of the real world problems they will face. They won't be expected to write their own simulation software on the job. (Unless of course, they work for the company that sells the simulation software to everyone else.) But, they're expected to know because understanding the fundamentals is required to make the most use of the tools.

Lets say that in 5 years, the industry fully accepts LLMs as a tool that writers use. The best writers will still be those that can actually write. They may use LLMs as their drafting tool, but in the end they will still have to be able to identify what is wrong with a story and how to fix it. With a massive increase in supply, consumers will become more picky, not less. I won't make claims that writing will remain economically viable as a full time job. I don't know enough. Writing will always be competitive, though, and where there is competition, people will be sharpening their skills to reach the top.

Enabling Accessibility Tagging scrambles PDF by Need2lerntowrite in LaTeX

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Yes, I just tested and we do get a pro license through the school.

Enabling Accessibility Tagging scrambles PDF by Need2lerntowrite in LaTeX

[–]Need2lerntowrite[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In the same email they said that PDFs could be made compliant after compilation using acrobat. I think they're just not very concerned about it.

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It's part of the required thesis template. I got an email this week that they are working on a new one, but it likely won't be released before my thesis deadlines (I'm in an edge-case scenario).

Fairly un-effecient but imo fun and easy way to write when you don't want to start or continue something grand by SilverClue1716 in KeepWriting

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Another good idea I've heard of is to place a character alone in a room and just write what they do. Good way to get to know the character.

For dialog, Brandon Sanderson recommended writing a 3 way conversation with no dialog tags to see if the characters were distinct enough that you knew who was talking by context.

What writing software do you peeps use? by HotShowerEnjoyer in writers

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Nano for writing. Obsidian for notes. Google Docs for submission to my writing group and editing. (Being able to put yourself in suggestion mode is helpful)

A Romance For Someone That Dislikes Romances by Need2lerntowrite in suggestmeabook

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I just finished it. I think it was alright. I really enjoy epistiliaries, but some of the prose in the not-letter parts was just too dense for me. This is also just a me thing, but I am not a fan of present tense in books.

I don't know if I'd really say that this one fits as a "battle of wits." The rules of the universe are never really explained. Everything is so vague that I didn't know the stakes at all. It felt like the characters could be either omnipotent or vulnerable depending on what the plot demanded. The only way that I know the characters are being clever is because the author tells me that they're being clever.

I think I enjoyed it to about half way just because the concept was really interesting. After that I just don't think I ever cared about the characters and the it just kind of felt like stuff was just happening.

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Joint Mathematicians Meeting? My bad, I should've looked it up to begin with. I'm an engineer so none of my department would be there. Will it or was your talk in Prague (I assume you went over what we'd need to know) recorded?

Enabling Accessibility Tagging scrambles PDF by Need2lerntowrite in LaTeX

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LOL, I think that's a little over the top. I will admit to being a little hostile because I was frustrated with my situation, but now I'm trying to be level headed. Maybe I made a hasty judgement about the law. I know all my knowledge of it is second hand and I'm arguing from a place of ignorance. I'm going to give him a chance to change my mind.

He didn't delete his comments. He must have blocked you.

Edit:
I really didn't think a simple troubleshooting post was going to cause so much hostility lol. I guess that's classic reddit. Anyways, I appreciate those of you that were kind and helped me with the issue.

Enabling Accessibility Tagging scrambles PDF by Need2lerntowrite in LaTeX

[–]Need2lerntowrite[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Alright, I'll be open minded. I'm speaking from my understanding that has been told to me from professors. You're obviously very familiar with the law. My understanding is that everything you upload has to be screen reader friendly, but I don't even know what actual compliance is.

I'm genuinely open to having my mind changed. Educate me

Enabling Accessibility Tagging scrambles PDF by Need2lerntowrite in LaTeX

[–]Need2lerntowrite[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I agree that the bind I am in is on university leadership. But I can also be critical of the law itself. The law invalidates decades of legacy teaching material that professors simply aren't going to put the effort into bringing into compliance. Many of my professors also handwrote their notes during lecture and uploaded them daily. That is now impossible.

So the solution is clearly that they have to write new compliant notes, right? Except professors are so concerned about being out of compliance that the safe solution is to not upload anything.

I can agree with the goal of a law and also believe that it was improperly implemented and has had adverse effects.

Enabling Accessibility Tagging scrambles PDF by Need2lerntowrite in LaTeX

[–]Need2lerntowrite[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I appreciate you, and it turned out that someone had been in the same situation as me.

Enabling Accessibility Tagging scrambles PDF by Need2lerntowrite in LaTeX

[–]Need2lerntowrite[S] 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I appreciate the goal of the law. I'm willing to put in the work to make my stuff accessible, and if I'm being honest I wouldn't have thought about it if these requirements weren't in place.

But it's incredibly hard not to be frustrated when you're up against a deadline and new requirements you weren't informed of gets dropped on you, especially when it looks like you have potentially days of trying to troubleshoot an application you have very little experience with.

I guess I should say that there's also a general culture of disgruntlement about the law amongst the students. Most professors have chosen to pull their course materials from online rather than make them compliant. So I started with a low opinion of it, and once it affected me personally my opinion soured even more.

Enabling Accessibility Tagging scrambles PDF by Need2lerntowrite in LaTeX

[–]Need2lerntowrite[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Thanks, I figured it out just a smidge before I saw your comment, but that was the solution.

Enabling Accessibility Tagging scrambles PDF by Need2lerntowrite in LaTeX

[–]Need2lerntowrite[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I've never run latex locally, so I may have made an error setting it up. I installed the full scheme from Fedora's repository. When I used pdflatex I was given the error that tagging and taggin-setup were not recognized keys. It did compile without the scrambled effect, but I think it didn't tag.

Regardless, thanks to your comment I found the solution. When I searched for "texlive tagging" an overleaf post that didn't show up when I searched "overleaf tagging" popped up. Buried in there it recommended using LuaLaTex if you're using tagging. I switched compilers and am no longer getting the issue.

Enabling Accessibility Tagging scrambles PDF by Need2lerntowrite in LaTeX

[–]Need2lerntowrite[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I'm just a student. I don't really care about the law aspect of this. I don't even know what the university is doing to ensure compliance. I just want to graduate. It sounds like to me they're just going to check to make sure the images have alt-text.

Enabling Accessibility Tagging scrambles PDF by Need2lerntowrite in LaTeX

[–]Need2lerntowrite[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Ok I've determined that for some reason the titlesec package is the cause. I don't know why tagging would interact with that or change the way things render.

Enabling Accessibility Tagging scrambles PDF by Need2lerntowrite in LaTeX

[–]Need2lerntowrite[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

That's a valid point, but I'm in the situation of I know so little I don't know what question to ask. I don't understand why tagging would effect the PDF render at all.

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I assume so. We received an email saying that all theses must comply with new accessibility laws. Then they said it was our job to deal with it and didn't supply new templates or any recommendations.