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samcarter

If these humans are too slow, the beavers have to do it themselves! https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/feb/11/beavers-save-czech-taxpayers-by-flooding-ex-army-training-site

निरंजन replying to samcarter

Yes! Cheers :)

samcarter replying to निरंजन

Mine's now working, too :)

samcarter replying to निरंजन

:)

निरंजन replying to samcarter

Woohoo!! It is thereeee :) :) I checked literally five minutes ago and it wasn't there. Yayy!

samcarter replying to निरंजन

This one https://ctan.org/pkg/linguistix ?

निरंजन replying to Joseph Wright

Wow!!

निरंजन replying to samcarter

Well.. it is making me anxious. :joy: The software I released was on my mind for around 3 years. Now it's live, but it's invisible. But yeah, it's a part and parcel of the game! :smile:

samcarter replying to Joseph Wright

wow!

Joseph Wright replying to निरंजन

Abut an hour on GH Actions - a bit longer if I have to do it on my laptop (2020 i7 MacBook Pro)

samcarter replying to निरंजन

don't we all love such updates? :P

निरंजन replying to samcarter

Hehe, apparently it's caused because of an update that went wrong

samcarter replying to निरंजन

yeah, my package is not alone :)

samcarter replying to निरंजन

:D

निरंजन replying to samcarter

Now the same problem is happening to my package. I released it the day before yesterday. The files are visible in the archive, but the page isn't visible. Hopefully it fixes soon.

निरंजन replying to samcarter

The email notification read `:cat: :fish:` :P I giggled

Skillmon replying to निरंजन

:P

samcarter replying to निरंजन

:cat: :fish:

निरंजन replying to samcarter

I think that would be a fish though for the cat. TeXStudio can easily tempt new users.

निरंजन replying to Skillmon

Elitist..

निरंजन replying to samcarter

:joy:

samcarter replying to Joseph Wright

I bet the latex2e builds leave enough time to grow the coffee beans first :)

निरंजन replying to Joseph Wright

Curious!! Please tell how much time it takes?

Joseph Wright replying to samcarter

You want to do the LaTeX2e builds :)

निरंजन replying to samcarter

Omg!

samcarter

I normally appreciate a bit of compile time for a quick coffee run, but with the tcolorbox doc, I've already drunken my coffee  before it is finished :P
  
```  
Transcript written on tcolorbox.log.

--------------------------------------------------------- SUCCESS

Total: 1383.617 seconds  
```

निरंजन replying to Skillmon

Sorry, my comment was completely misleading. I was talking about the lazy evaluation that is not possible in the case of dim/skip registers (e.g.: https://topanswers.xyz/tex?q=8089#a7707). Your comment regarding `tl`s sounded similar.

CarLaTeX replying to Skillmon

Have a good day! Prof. van Duck thanks you!

Skillmon

But now: Off to dayjob! See you as another rabbit (or in another chat, or later today)

Skillmon replying to CarLaTeX

Unfortunately, yes. The amount of spam was one of the nuances when I had a publicly listed university email address.

CarLaTeX

However, it is incredible how scammers find any means to defraud.

CarLaTeX replying to Skillmon

Hahaha he was found by some algorithm. I deleted the email and kept the sender in the spammer list :D

Skillmon

Nonetheless, it's funny that Prof. van Duck got such a mail, shows how good of a job you're doing for that alter ego.

Skillmon replying to CarLaTeX

*Disclaimer: This is a description of the usual behaviour of predatory publishers, and not necessarily true for Lupine Publishers*  
  
These publishers write to all the researchers they can find that might (or might not) have any expertise or interest in the fields of one of their journals. They usually don't investigate that well (or else they'd have seen that Prof van Duck isn't a real person), and try to convince them to publish an article in one of their journals. Since they are an open access journal they charge high fees (and most universities have subsidies reserved for open access, so the researchers can pay those fees). Usually those fees are necessary to finance the work a serious journal needs to do (review process, editorial process, etc.), but predatory journals more often than not don't invest that money into such processes but keep it for profit. They are the worst of the scientific publishing world. That's why I said "I'd keep my distance". Whenever you're contacted by a journal in such a way, I'd take a look whether it's suspected to be a predatory journal, and if so *stay away!*

CarLaTeX replying to Skillmon

Thank you! Indeed it seems a bit strange...

Skillmon replying to CarLaTeX

Yep, as I suspected, others seem to share my assessment: Lupine Publishers is listed on the list of potentially predatory publishers: https://beallslist.net/  
  
I'd keep my distance.

Skillmon replying to CarLaTeX

Hm, sounds a bit like a predatory journal.

CarLaTeX

The sender is: ![blob](/image?hash=15a2d23c37e178fa921e8cbdca551e5994beffd0ec15056719889a91bbe16c4f) .

CarLaTeX

![blob](/image?hash=fa2ebd5e33110f665a0a5fdbe43fa6a00056c642f1b6f528c2c22080b2b1b2c2)     
Prof. van Duck received this email (a month ago, I didn't see it because it went to the spam folder). Is it spam or is it serious?

samcarter replying to Skillmon

:thumbsup:

Skillmon replying to samcarter

the organic fat free milk is MS notepad.exe, devoid of any fun

samcarter replying to Skillmon

I assume the fancy French Vanilla Coffee box in the fridge represents TeXstudio :P

Skillmon replying to निरंजन

and of course the VIM cucumber is the prettiest and comes with its stern still attached.

Skillmon replying to निरंजन

?! Of course you can later change dimensions, and of course you can write an accessor function: `\dim_new:N \l_my_tmp_dim \dim_set:Nn \l_my_tmp_dim { 50pt } \NewExpandableDocumentCommand \MyTmpDim {} { \dim_use:N \l_my_tmp_dim } \dim_set:Nn \l_my_tmp_dim { 60pt } \MyTmpDim`

निरंजन

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निरंजन replying to Skillmon

Hmm.. I have this complaint about some other registers like `dim` etc. too. There is no way to compute them dynamically. They are set at the time of definition and then there is no way back.

निरंजन replying to Skillmon

Oh no :( Okay... I will have to define control sequences that will do the same thing. Thanks for the hints.

Skillmon replying to निरंजन

Though arguably a design mistake in `expl3`, you're correct, a `tl` is always expandable.

Skillmon replying to निरंजन

Your `\tmptl` would only print the value of `\g_pkg_tmp_tl` when it was defined, not the current value, which seems like a strange interface. If that's what you indeed want your code is fine, otherwise you should use a level of indirection.

निरंजन

Also, `tl`s are always expandable, right? Not `protected`, so I am guessing they should be... but want to be sure.