What are some good activities for making friends?
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Yeah there's definitely a learning curve. A little coding experience makes the task easier. I typically give my students a template that they put their own text into that includes a peer-reviewed journal format and an example equation, table, and figure.
There's still the "not so short introduction to latex" out there that helped me learn the basics back in the day.
Physics professor here. I tell my students that i will give them unlimited help and assistance if they want to learn latex. I find that most students prefer latex once they get the hang of it.
I'm incredibly biased though. There is rarely a situation that I would prefer to use word over latex.
Or just don't use a figure or table environment. Those are what specify it as a float. If you really must have that image or table at some specific location, just do a center environment with a captionof from the caption package.
This latex "annoyance" is unwarranted as figure/table environments are specifically telling latex that this location doesn't need to be precisely here and please place it somewhere that will look better. The problem is that when people google "how to make a figure in latex" they see a result done this way and don't know that figure/table is not required.
I teach an electronics class and a barebones version of this is one of the early logic gate labs: an SR latch built using NAND gates. It can set and reset a bit!
User you are replying to wasn't replying to OP?
Maybe my reading comprehension is bad, but it seemed obvious to me user was replying to a specific comment seeing how it was a reply to that nerd comment instead of OP and post used the phrase "this comment".
I haven't used discord on sway yet, but from some reading around as i will likely be upgrading pcs and switching to sway (wayland) from i3 (xorg), i think it is discord doesn't play nice with wayland.
Yep. I have three brothers. My dad used ranked choice voting for us when we were kids all the time on "flavors" of things we needed to buy: ice cream, candy, toothpaste, etc. We understood it with no issues.
it was amusing seeing the look on a friend's face when my dad would barge into the room with 5 different toothpastes and ask, "which of these do you like the best?" Followed shortly by "which of these do you like 2nd best?"
I've bought my last two laptops from System76. They default to their own PopOS now but you can still get ubuntu if you prefer.
Also, i didn't realize there was a laptop war. But if anyone is winning, i'd have to say it's apple. Obviously anecdotal, but i think i see more macbooks than any other specific laptop manufacturer.
I'm certainly not a hardware expert but i've also been researching a new machine and everything i see about power supplies seems to suggest those 80+ ratings are mostly meaningless and suggest the cultists tier list
Phyphox is similar, not sure if it has all the same capabilities though.
Fit Notes - simple lifting progress app that i've been using for years. On play store.
Kvaesitso - launcher on fdroid. Has become my favorite launcher.
My Mom showed me a reverse sear method, which I've followed for a few years now and has given me a perfectly cooked roast every time. I've fiddled a bit with the exact temperatures and cook times, but here's my latest iteration. You NEED a meat thermometer!
- Night before: scour fat on top, season with salt, pepper, whatever other rub marinade - our meat market sells an amazing wet rub thing that we use.
- Remove from fridge 2 hours before cooking. I usually stick meat thermometer in at this point, stick it in from the side so that most of the thermometer is inside and the tip is approximately at the middle of the roast. This has given me the most consistent results with temperatures.
- Cook in oven at 185F until center is 118F (about 4-5 hours for my boneless 5 pound roast)
- Remove, tent with foil, and rest for about 20 minutes (center should come up to about 125F while resting)
- Cook in oven at 500F for another 12 minutes (necessary for brown crust and caramelizing fat)
- Remove and rest for another 10 minutes.
I did a 5 pound boneless ribeye roast today, and this whole process took about 7 hours. Probably will try bone-in next year, as I didn't realize the meat market I buy from does the remove bones and tie back together thing.
We started doing a rib roast for thanksgiving a few years ago. So much better than turkey!
I also do baked skin-on chicken thighs regularly, which we also like better than turkey, that we simply never have a craving for turkey.
Not an issue. I did the same thing a while ago, switched from nvidea to amd. After i confirmed the radeon was working fine i purged all the nvidea stuff
You say this as if command line is bad? I love the command line for certain tasks. A very common task I do is convert an image from one filetype to another. How does this work on windows? Assuming I have a program that works with each image filetype, I open up the program, click on some menus and dropdown selections and click convert or "save as file type". On linux, where every major distro has imagemagick installed by default I type
convert image.jpg image.pdf
and done. I mean, how much easier can that be?
Or another example is merging a bunch of pdfs. I imagine adobe acrobat can do this, but I've never bothered to learn how, as I quickly learned that I can do it using pdftk on linux by typing
pdftk file1.pdf file2.pdf cat output merged.pdf
and done. If I do happen to forget the exact syntax for that command, google gives me the answer instantly.
If there's a difficult command line thing to do with lots of options that can get confusing, there is a GUI interface that someone has written that has the dropdown boxes so you don't HAVE to learn the specific options, but a little bit of learning the command line makes many tasks way more convenient than a typical windows GUI program.
Regarding wine, you've obviously have never used it (or likely even linux). I used my linux pc for 13 years before installing wine to play WoW. (side note to another of your strange assertions, I knew zero programming languages when I switched to linux.) Although, I wasn't really gaming at all in that time period. I mainly do work on my pc, and the software I use is so much more convenient to us on linux than windows: mainly latex and vim. Some friend asked me to play WoW with them and I said "If I can get it to run on linux, I will." Kind of thinking it would be a huge pain in the ass to get to run. But the whole process went super smooth, it was maybe 3 commands and now I use zero command line to launch WoW using wine.
Finally, I don't like the windows UI. Floating desktop managers always annoyed me (including the linux ones such as gnome) whenever I needed multiple windows displayed at once. Way too much fiddliness adjusting window sizes and borders. I learned about tiling window managers, and that's what I use now. Is tiling even possible on windows? I know you can win+arrow to kinda do this, but then rearranging can be a pain. I know this is all personal preference and most people like floating windows, but it's a choice I can make on linux.
I did a temporary research position at New College about a decade ago. It was such an awesome little University with great faculty and a great student body. The recent developments due to this clown saddens me so much.
Is there a link? Am I missing something?
Well, Pop was released way after I bought the first laptop. I guess I haven't had any reason to try it out, as I'm happy with my i3/sway setup. I don't really hop distros at all. Maybe when system76 completes/releases their full cosmic desktop (not based on gnome) I'll give it a spin.
Board games at a local game store. Many will have a board game night.