drail
@drail@fedia.io
Just a guy, bout to get my PhD in experimental particle physics. I like hockey, basketball, DND, science, and audio equipment.
Go Nuggets! Go Avs!
Migrated here due to ongoing issues on kbin:
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- Comment on LaTeX Master Race 3 months ago:
Not to dunk on word, if I need slightly more flexibility than a native .txt reader, it will do in a pinch. That being said:
Word: Oh, you want a table? Good luck getting your excel sheet to cary everything over properly, and god forbid you change a formula. You want to write it natively in word? Lol no.
Latex: tabularx goes brrrr
Word: Equations? Have fun properly tracking equation numbers and manually formatting your text to center justified every time.
Latex: $ $, \( \), and \begin{equation} go brrrr.
Word: Figures? Hope you anchored everything properly, it would be a shame if your entire document layout got shifted...
Latex: What the fuck is an anchor? top, here, bottom, those are your options. Add an exclamation mark if you're feeling spicy.
- Comment on LaTeX Master Race 3 months ago:
My former colleague and I both decided on the same template for our dissertation, but hers looked wonky with the default margins. Sacrificing that lamb to have slightly tighter margins was worth it, even if the eldritch ramblings keep me awake at night.
- Comment on LaTeX Master Race 3 months ago:
I did all my Quantum Field Theory homework in Latex, the professor required it. My classmates would write everything out by hand and then transcribe it, meanwhile my officemate and I could think/write/math in Latex, so we only had to write our homework once. The prof lifted the requirement halfway through the semester after everyone else complained, but I never looked back.
The only thing that prevented a 100% Latex-only semester was the goddam section where we had to draw Wick diagrams. There just wasn't a reliable way to draw them on my computer, as the Feynman diagram tools stuggled with the nuances of Wick diagrams. I still included the hand-drawn versions as figures in Latex, but it felt like cheating.
I did figure out how to write the Wick's theorem bracket notation in Latex though (not that I'll ever need to again), so that made up for it a bit. I wager that I spent more time researching obscure Latex packages than actually solving the problems that semester.
I love Latex so much, I even made a template for generating profesional looking DND item cards for my table that I submitted to overleaf:
https://www.overleaf.com/latex/templates/d-and-d-item-card-template/ndfdspmmxnrn