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samcarter

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samcarter

May the Force be with you today!

samcarter replying to निरंजन

The dog?

निरंजन replying to samcarter

The real question is "who is _not_ letting the cat in?".

CarLaTeX replying to samcarter

Wonderful :D

samcarter

OK, I have a new favourite font: https://fosstodon.org/@context/116500592699028141 :cat:

निरंजन replying to samcarter

Haha, true. Already TL is flooding.

samcarter replying to निरंजन

I'm not sure the typical user will appreciate their tex distribution being cluttered with large satellite images :)

निरंजन replying to samcarter

Sounds like a package to me :P

CarLaTeX replying to samcarter

:D

samcarter replying to CarLaTeX

yesss :)

CarLaTeX replying to samcarter

really zzzzzzed

samcarter

This must be the zetiest Z ever: https://typo.social/@onpaperwings/116488810586437500

samcarter

Is this what `\HUGE` would look like? https://science.nasa.gov/specials/your-name-in-landsat/

निरंजन

If anyone of you has tried coding with Claude, how good is it when it comes to LaTeX, in your view?

CarLaTeX replying to samcarter

:D

samcarter

For the font enthusiasts, the videos of ATypI 2025 are being posted: https://www.youtube.com/@ATypI_org/videos

samcarter

The irony that a packages, which provides an interface to use an apple font, is only available in miktex :P  
  
https://ctan.org/pkg/coloremoji

samcarter

Oh, a new version of the symbol list!  
  
https://www.ctan.org/ctan-ann/id/37aa6160fb595ea0@hogwart

निरंजन

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/apr/08/anthropic-ai-cybersecurity-software

निरंजन replying to samcarter

Yeah, I agree.

myvec.reserve8465

!?

samcarter replying to निरंजन

They could have used   
- 0+6  
- 0*6  
- 0^6  
etc. Just as simple, but actually focuses on the latex differences

निरंजन replying to samcarter

Such a good idea! I wonder if this idea can be executed in LaTeX too. Comparing the rendered characters, maybe their vectors? Not sure.

निरंजन replying to samcarter

In a Mastodon post the author seems to have mentioned that this is a proof of concept. Probably that's why they have added simple looking example. It would be good if they take a look at learnlatex and prepare the course with that line of thinking

निरंजन replying to samcarter

😎

निरंजन replying to samcarter

Is this made to suit the intelligence level of LLMs? :)

samcarter

This might come in handy for finding similar symbols: https://charcuterie.elastiq.ch/#U+32F5

samcarter replying to Anonymous 13985

Hello!

Anonymous 13985

Didn't expect to see samcarter here. Hello, from SO! :D

samcarter

Instead of paying attention to the differences in latex code, e.g. `+` vs. `^`, I find myself just looking for the correct numbers. Not sure how much latex the users will learn from this.

samcarter

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samcarter

After trying it, I'm not sure if this is very effective.  
  
Take for example this exercise:

samcarter

Like duolingo, but for learning latex: https://chaos.social/@avocadoom/116363708557180570  
  
(I didn't try it, no idea if it is good or not)

samcarter replying to निरंजन

You could put your sun glasses on before opening the terminal :P

निरंजन replying to samcarter

That's somehow too much for my eyes. Terminal doesn't feel like a terminal.

samcarter replying to Skillmon

nice minimalism! :)

Skillmon replying to samcarter

this is mine: ![foo.png](/image?hash=9eeb5ec0d428a161bdbdaa41dad860143aeeb1b0dbbc41fba0ba200a59e8b072)

CarLaTeX replying to samcarter

Uh, it seems useful!

samcarter

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samcarter

This looks like an interesting tool:  https://itsfoss.com/tennis-csv-tool/  
  
I also somehow fell totally in love with the command prompt shown in the example images. I don't really like any of the colours on their own, but somehow they work together so nicely -- long story short, I ditched the prompt, I've been using for a decade and my terminal now looks like this:

निरंजन replying to Skillmon

Oops! :P

I missed the rabbit-powered alternative for sample text.

Skillmon replying to निरंजन

sad `duckuments` noises.

Skillmon

Happy Easter from me as well!

samcarter replying to CarLaTeX

Happy Easter to you, too! :rabbit:

CarLaTeX

Happy Easter to who celebrate it!

निरंजन replying to Skillmon

I used to be ashamed of my mistaken commits and then devs working for a tech giant committed this mistake. I am calmed down. :P

Skillmon replying to निरंजन

LOL, thanks for sharing!

निरंजन

I thought the whole Claude Code leak was an April fool, but wow! https://layer5.io/blog/engineering/the-claude-code-source-leak-512000-lines-a-missing-npmignore-and-the-fastest-growing-repo-in-github-history

samcarter replying to CarLaTeX

:cat: