There is an entire book called “A dictionary of obscure sorrows” by John Koenig, it’s all from there

What is this, a Butcher for ants? He should be at least three times as big!

All software is political, riddled with biases and potential security risks. Most of the time we ignore the policy of the software, because we either agree with that policy, or are conditioned not to clock it as a “policy”, because “this is just Common Sense™”.

I suspect, if the author would have been more honest with themselves, they’d write something along the lines of “turns out, software is a platform for political action, and it scares me” - an opinion that is very valid, valuable and thought-provoking.

Posted without a proper citation - how dare you!

White RC, Remington A. Object personification in autism: This paper will be very sad if you don’t read it. Autism. 2019 May;23(4):1042-1045. doi: 10.1177/1362361318793408. Epub 2018 Aug 11. PMID: 30101594.

Go on, my siblings, make this paper happy!

Thank you, I thought they were referring to one of my former classmates.

Don’t forget that it only takes more than 35 degrees Celsius of wet bulb to kill any human in ~6 hours of exposure.

Once air reaches certain humidity levels during a heat wave, it becomes impossible for us to effectively cool down - the sweat simply won’t evaporate from our skin.

Stay safe, harass your local politicians, advocate and for and demand climate action, eat the rich.

I don’t know of any solution that would allow to scan entire pages, but here is a local tool to get LaTeX math from images via OCR https://github.com/lukas-blecher/LaTeX-OCR

Try harder!

It’s okay, Elon, we all know you try the hardest.

The future’s wasteland will be covered by bodies of web stalkers who were naive enough to get tricked by mid-2010s shitposts.

“Turns out they never used this to make their metal cutlery darker - who would have thought the ancients were so casually cruel?”

“After months of research we have concluded, that despite all their technical achievements, the ancients never figured out, what does the fox say”

“Today porf. Drobyshevsky is going to tell us about their newest work in XXI cent. anthropology - what is ‘streamer dent’ and why do we have such long heads 2300 years later?”

“Ass, coochie and the rich - dietary practices of homo sapiens in the age of over-production”

Check out Typst (a newer TeX-like layout engine) if you have time, I’m interested in your opinion. I find it a bit simpler to use than TeX.

Oh sorry, I was too focused on calling out the silliness of the idea.

Why on Earth would you curse yourself with MS Office anyway, especially if writing docs is your professional responsibility?

Why not use Git+Markdown+Pandoc, have your copy, data and layout separate?

I understand that a lot of istitutions/companies impose stylistic/technical requirements for docs and publications, - still doesn’t mean you gotta stay married to the worst tooling.

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M-m-…moody fella?

Despite whatever your lead/manager says, there is always an option to nuke it from low orbit and start over.

It had been known since the dawn of time, that every day of the week that starts with “T” is a pirate day. This makes Tuesday, Thursday and Today.

Suomi mainittu!

As a programmer, I concur. I sit on my arse all day pushing keys , anybody can do that.

Other people have already suggested starting with an engine, I’d like to go a bit further and suggest you start with Raylib. It’s an open source game engine that fits into a single header file, written in C.

I think it would allow you to build a couple of small games, while inspecting engine internals in your favorite editor at the same time to learn the ropes.

Wish you the best

NIИ - The Fragile. We’re in this together now!