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12:04 AM
@PauloCereda I don't find these very funny. But the Jon Skeet powers are pretty funny. "When Jon Skeet's code doesn't compile, the compiler apologizes". "Anonymous methods and anonymous types are actually Jon Skeet; they just don't like to boast".
 
@AlanMunn haha good ones. :)
Oh my, a lambda function is actually Jon Skeet. :P
 
 
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8:40 AM
@egreg: 49,993! :P
 
@PauloCereda Is it palindromic? :)
 
@egreg It's a close one. :)
 
@lockstep Well, on SO there are nearly 6000 with Tenacious, and nearly 1900 with Unsung hero ... A matter of number of questions asked on the site perhaps, they might get "lost in the crowd" quickly, and not get any votes.
 
@PauloCereda It's prime, by the way.
 
@egreg It is? Oh my. Another super power. :D
 
8:49 AM
@PauloCereda Also 49991 is prime (twin primes). Can you solve this easy exercise? "There are infinitely many twin primes". ;-)
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@egreg I have no idea. :( Is it a proof by induction?
 
@PauloCereda It's a famous open problem in number theory. :)
 
@egreg Ah! I'm saved. :)
@egreg: speaking of numbers, there's a cute book called "A convenção dos algarismos". All the numbers go to a symposium to discuss which one is the most important. :)
 
@PauloCereda And who's the winner? Oh, well: let X be the set of important natural numbers; if X is not the whole set, then there exists the minimum unimportant number, which of course is very important. Contradiction. Then all natural numbers are important. :)
 
@egreg Spoiler: they gave the prize to the zero. :) But I like your proof better. :)
 
9:17 AM
@egreg the minimum does not necessarilly exist.
 
@wh1t3 In the natural numbers?
 
@egreg yes
 
@wh1t3 My natural numbers are well-ordered.
 
@egreg o, wait, You meant the unimport number with smallest value
@egreg I read it as the least important number, implying some ordering based on importance instead of value
 
@wh1t3 Just the minimal element in the complement of the important numbers.
 
9:22 AM
@egreg Yeah, that exists. I don't see what makes it important though... :)
 
@wh1t3 Well, it's the minimum unimportant number, so it has a very special property that makes it important. :) It's just a joke using the "natural" meaning of "important". It only shows that terms must be clearly defined before using them.
 
@egreg I see
 
Yay important numbers! :)
 
 
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10:52 AM
Quick question on PSTricks users (not me!): Are there any other main environments except pspicture, pspicture* and psmatrix? I mean environments which will start some form of PSTricks picture, not environments which can be used inside them.
 
 
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3:41 PM
@egreg: any news about the next imakeidx version? :)
@egreg: congrats for breaking the 50k barrier!
 
now that's an important number :)
 
:D
Geek On Acid, Glasgow, United Kingdom
101 2
Oh my!
 
4:46 PM
@egreg: Congratulations for hitting 50k!
 
4:57 PM
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Q: Biber not run automatically with `-shell-escape`?

eudoxosI vaguely recall reading somewhere that biber can be run automatically by the biblatex package when -shell-escape is allowed. Do I remember it wrong? As much as I try, biblatex only tells me to run biber by hand. EDIT using TexLive2010 (updated about one month ago). EDIT2 (for MWE freaks): I r...

I must say I agree with the OP on the uselessness of a MWE in this case.
 
5:26 PM
"Hello I have a problem, with my kid sneaking out at night"
Standard Tex.Exchange answer: "Could you provide a MWE?"
 
@lockstep Thanks!
@PauloCereda :)
 
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6:06 PM
@lockstep Now I'm waiting for the drop in rep tomorrow. :)
 
@egreg: I wrote an answer using imakeidx. I'm not worthy. :)
 
6:28 PM
@PauloCereda Upvoted, of course. :)
The radio is broadcasting the Gloria from the B Minor Mass by Bach. Nice return home. :)
 
@egreg How nice! Speaking of glorias, I love the one from Misa Criolla, by Ariel Ramirez. :)
 
@PauloCereda I don't know it. However it's far too recent for me. :)
 
@egreg hehe I recommend it, it's a marvellous folkloric and religious musical piece. It's from the Argentine composer Ariel Ramirez, and IMHO it's one of the masterpieces of Argentina. It's well known in Europe because of Jose Carreras, who sang beautifully. I have the one with Mercedes Sosa, recorded in 2000. She won a Latin Grammy for it. I simply love our Latin American culture. :)
 
6:51 PM
@egreg You commented: "It might do it, but not at the time of \printbibliography, as the .aux file must be closed; so this wouldn't spare a LaTeX run." What's the antecedent of 'it' here? Do you mean that it might be possible for biblatex to run biber, but not at the time of \printbibliography?
 
 
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7:56 PM
@MarcoDaniel Hi!
I think the problem is that the OP doesn't have any chapters/sections before using \includepdf so the ToC shows always 0 for the sectional unit number.
 
@GonzaloMedina Maybe but with the solution addtotoc the counter will be increased. I didn't test such behavior.
 
@MarcoDaniel Ah, you're absolutely right! Now I don't understand the comment of the OP!
 
@GonzaloMedina You are not alone ;-) -- Sometimes I think he doesn't like simple solutions ;-)
 
@MarcoDaniel It seems so! Anyway, thank you very much for providing the example!
I'll delete now the comments from the thread.
 
@GonzaloMedina I did the same.
But the discussion goes on in the comments of the other answer.
 
8:08 PM
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Q: How does Santa Claus get into houses without a fireplace?

DavRob60My kid are wondering how Santa Claus will be able to deliver theirs gift since our house does have a chimney, but it lead to the oil furnace.

 
@MarcoDaniel hehe I had just given the same recommendation (using always 1) in a comment to my answer.
@PauloCereda I'd like to see a parent giving frankcarr's explanation to the kids.
 
@GonzaloMedina My wife and I thinking that this question is very interessting. I will notice the explanation ;-)
 
8:24 PM
My house does not have a fireplace. Oh wait, the coldest we reach is 14ºC. :P
 
8:42 PM
@AlanMunn Yes, the "it" refers to biblatex. There's a package by Oberdiek providing \AtVeryEndDocument (or something like that), that stores commands to be performed just before the \end routine, when the .aux file has been closed and read. One could put \immediate\write18{biber \jobname}. The gain is not so big, however.
 
@GonzaloMedina What is frankcarr? I dunno. /me blushes
 
@PauloCereda It's the nickname of someone who wrote an answer to that question about Santa.
 
@GonzaloMedina aaaaaaaaaaaaah!
/brain malfunction today
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Q: Want to fill line with repeating string

Walmart_HoboSimilar to the \dotfill command, but with your own text, rather than dots. If the string was: kitty! The entire line would look like the following: kitty!kitty!kitty!kitty!kitty!kitty!kitty!kitty!kitty! Is there any way to do this?

Someone please write an answer with badger instead of kitty. :P
 
9:10 PM
@PauloCereda s:kitty:bader:g There you go. But what if I wanted every xth one to be 'snake' instead of badger?
 
9:33 PM
@PauloCereda 14C? It was that warm here today, but winter hasn't really started yet. I spent a winter in Montreal; -35C one day. Well, with windchill.
 
@Canageek That's cheating. But real -35C is pretty cold. It's unseasonably warm in our part of the world right now. (Michigan and SW Ontario have pretty similar weather.)
 
@AlanMunn What do you mean by "unseasonably warm"? More or less than 10?
 
10:35 PM
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Q: Inline Tex Math expressions positioning in Anki

mcbI'm not exactly familiar with how Anki processes the inline math expressions, but the developer advised me to ask this question on a Tex discussion platform: The problem is that the rendered formulas are always placed a bit too high in the text. Like this: How can I change this? Edit: Al...

Off-topic, gentlemen?
 
@egreg Right now it's about 6C and the high today and yesterday was around 14. That's really warm for this time of year; the average high for December (and also Jan/Feb) is around 0 and average low is around -4. Jan/Feb lows average around -10.
 
@AlanMunn Brrr. :)
 
27ºC here.
 
Did any of you who received their swag package notice the signature of the letter that comes with it?
 
11:06 PM
@Raphink Not yet received. /angry :)
 
Is it worth to publish it?
And I'll never receive my swag package. :/
 
@egreg Well I used to live in Montréal where the winter highs were -6 and the lows -15 at the same time.
 
Swag - now I'm in the bloody 2nd page. :D
 
11:24 PM
@egreg: the CEO, Joel Spolsky, signed manually with \Joel{Spolsky}
 
@PauloCereda Nice picture.
 
@egreg I have no idea how that "at the same time" got into the message. It's clearly not supposed to be there.
 
@AlanMunn I thought it could be two distinct areas of the same city. :)
 
@PauloCereda Is it still on Sundays? Or did it move to Saturday?
 
@AlanMunn I believe it's on Saturdays now, but in the thread it is Sunday. :(
 
11:29 PM
@AlanMunn True. I thought we will meet us on Saturday. For workers like me it is more comfortable.
 
@PauloCereda Right, so if you're going to post the ad, it had better say Saturday. (And we should probably edit the meta question to reflect that.)
 
@AlanMunn Roger. :)
 
@PauloCereda Actually the times are a bit misleading too. But I'm not sure.
 
@AlanMunn I agree. Anyway, it's very easy for me to change them. :)
 

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