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This is an old problem, it’s a mixture of amusement and resignation to see it keep coming up in new areas. In the salad days of my early undergrad, i spent abo
by hprotagonist 7y ago
This is an old problem, it’s a mixture of amusement and resignation to see it keep coming up in new areas.
In the salad days of my early undergrad, i spent about three weeks hand tuning (very poorly) an init.el, learning latex, fiddling with auctex and bibtex and makefiles, and doing no work. Quite literally sophomoric.
Learned a lot about elisp, and fuckall about mechanics, but dang if i didn’t have the prettiest lab reports.
- ludamad 7y agoHard to look down upon spending 3 weeks learning elisp and latex during undergrad! Tell your employer you did this and they'll be less kind probably :D
- hprotagonist 7y agoright? as it turns out, dropping months into obscure trivia of how to do all this silly nonsense has paid off in my professional life, but it sure felt like wasting time at the time.