The Nineteenth Byte

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Mr. Xcoder

21:01

Can't we use something other than $ for MathJax equations?

I mean, are they site-customizable?

totallyhuman

A suggestion was <mathjax>

$ is customizable but $$ is not

Mr. Xcoder

Bleh what the hell SE?

caird coinheringaahing

If $$ triggers Mathjax, I'd rather not have it, given Jelly

totallyhuman

unless that has changed in the last 2 years

request for @mods: has mathjax customizability changed?

Mr. Xcoder

It is just perfect to use \$ instead. I say YES to MathJax (only because we cannot have KaTeX)

And honestly, with over 1k questions tagged math, I'd say it is required

Anonymous

21:09

@EriktheOutgolfer Nobody did. Discord 101: people only show up in the list of users for a role when they’re online

Erik the Outgolfer

@Mego -1 shouldn't be the case

totallyhuman

are you... downvoting discord?

AdmBorkBork

Down with Discord! Bring back ICQ!

Poke

@AdmBorkBork ew

caird coinheringaahing

21:26

TIL we had 105 spam posts last year

Mr. Xcoder

That's quite a lot

caird coinheringaahing

43rd of all sites, and that's less than one every 3 days, which I'd say is alright

dzaima

@cairdcoinheringaahing I was gonna say that it's not that much until I remembered that a year has 365 days. Still, it feels like it's way more than 1 every ~3 days

caird coinheringaahing

> | Stack Overflow | 10220 | 21.3624% |

Now that's a lot

And we think Dennis is fast

Mr. Xcoder

Look at the first revision...

caird coinheringaahing

21:37

I have :P

DJMcMayhem

@thirtydot, @Alohci: Worst of all, I posted this answer in class during a coding test. And yes, I was allowed to browse SO - no idea why. — BoltClock ♦ Mar 28 '11 at 11:58

caird coinheringaahing

Anyone here browse PPCG during coding tests?

DJMcMayhem

Maybe...

totallyhuman

if I could

caird coinheringaahing

On kinda related news, Jon Skeet is now <1000 rep away from one million

totallyhuman

21:39

I do it all the time when I've finished all work and I'm pretty sure my teacher's fine with it

@cairdcoinheringaahing unfortunately he's not quite breaking anything :(

caird coinheringaahing

The last time Jon Skeet got less than 0 rep in one day was because: -543 User was removed. His total for that day: -156 May 14 '13 ಠ_ಠ

Mr. Xcoder

22:01

Ok, hopefully we’ll get MathJax back! (And hopefully people like my Meta answer :-P)

Riker

why mathjax?

Mr. Xcoder

@NewMetaPosts Come on!

Riker

there was a good reason why it was turned off.... >_>

(it was horribly broken and messed with regexes and code blocks)

Mr. Xcoder

@Riker For details, see my answer on Meta. I’d much rather have Katex or something else, but I am fine with MathJax if there is no other choice

Anonymous

Katex is much faster than MathJax, so I don't see why that wouldn't be preferred

Riker

22:03

probably because mathjax is already supported by other SE sites

Mr. Xcoder

@Mego Because we would have to ask SE to change that for us...?

Riker

@Geobits We are talking about fixes that do not require any code changes. Enabling MathJax is just a per-site setting change; the code that enables/disables it is already there. And similarly (I believe) with the delimiters. But adding support for metatags, that's a whole different thing. — Chris Jester-Young Apr 10 '15 at 13:14

IIRC it's a mod-settable setting actually

Anonymous

It's an overlord-settable setting

Anonymous

Only SE people can change it

Riker

hm ok then

Mr. Xcoder

22:06

@Mego I removed my comment, and now yours seems quite out of context

Anonymous

The thing is, not parsing MathJax in code blocks isn't even that hard to do

Riker

meta.se post maybe

Mr. Xcoder

Exactly.

Riker

it's meta posts and it's the mathjax one

Anonymous

It's actually extremely simple not to garble code blocks while parsing MathJax

Riker

22:12

hm, it may have been patched

I can't repro on electronics.se

A: Test the new LaTeX markdown in this Sandbox question!

This is a test for a bug over on PPCG. $ foo bar baz $ \$ foo bar baz \$ abc\$ $def \$\$ab de$\$ $ab de$ \[ab de\]

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