phcorcoran

@phcorcoran@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨LaTeX Master Race⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m sorry but you can totally control the margin size in LaTeX if you learn the right incantation

  backslash UsEpAcKaGe letterpaper H-maaaaaaargin point seventy-niiiiiine inch brackets GEOOOOOMETRY

  then you spread the entrails slightly and stab towards the sky. Really don’t see what the big fuss is all about.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨life pro tip!!⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Picking a higher density of the material just means the one gram would occupy less volume, it doesn’t affect how much energy that gram is equivalent to in terms of E=mc2. For that calculation, as the equation implies, only the mass matters; a gram of feathers is equivalent to the same amount of energy as a gram of lead for that equation. Now, this equation is in fact a simplified assumption; if you launch your feather at relativistic speed, then we’re talking

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reddit: Return Of The Junk Stock IPO⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh I see; I knew they stopped supporting it after a while but I thought the official app was a descendent of that codebase

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reddit: Return Of The Junk Stock IPO⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The comparison is even more apt when you remember that the official Reddit app also used to be great and the most popular 3rd-party app called AlienBlue, which was purchased from 1 guy and rebranded a decade ago.

  It’s pretty clear that the reason why the official Reddit app isn’t good is because a good experience for their users isn’t their goal.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What happens when two people with hyphenated last names get married? Do they hyphenate all four names and in what order?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  In Canada, they typically pick one or two last names out of four for the kid. Some adults decide to go by just one of their last names too

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨he learned not to trust farts⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  *shart post

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Iran claims a new ballistic missile can travel at hypersonic speeds⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  All ballistic missiles can travel at hypersonic speeds; if they can’t they are probably not called ballistic missiles (not from the definition of ballistic but from a practical categorization point of view)