@samcarter there is a chance to promote the island's containers in that thread, @PauloCereda

@PauloCereda saw and read it, but couldn't yet respond. Anyways, here is a first reaction for you: Awww <3

@Skillmon Or just a basic texlive scheme and installing packages as needed?

@Skillmon ooh a carrot <3

@MartinScharrer It's all by mail now: [email protected]

@samcarter yes, that would certainly work as well, but I'd assume that with caching the docker image could clock in faster on average (but hard to predict, also depends on other runner-jobs on the used server etc. -- maybe the basic scheme route turns out to be better and easier to predict).

Ducks: ooh doors

@PauloCereda In Czech we also say "Got a shaft up your ass (that you cannot turn around)?"

@yo' lol

@PauloCereda I must confess I never heard the Swedish one.

@yo' we have a very funny expression here when someone closes the car door too hard: "don't you have a fridge at home?" In the past, the doors of the fridges we had here had to be slammed pretty hard to close! (@PhelypeOleinik @AlanMunn)

@mickep maybe because the swedes are polite <3

@PauloCereda It's got the UK wrong: at least where I'm from, you'd say 'Were you born in a barn?'

@JosephWright ooh

@PauloCereda I see we are therefore Russians

@JosephWright во славу уток России-матушки

@PauloCereda The German one is new to me too. I would say something like "Do you have curtains at home?"

@samcarter ooh

@PauloCereda To which you can reply, if you're in the car: "I only close mine from the outside" :)

@PhelypeOleinik hahahahaha

So we complain about the size of the TL images: gamespot.com/articles/… :)

> Allegedly, NBA 2K24 has a mammoth install size, even larger than the galaxy-spanning Starfield. According to a report from Insider Gaming, NBA 2K24 has an install size of 161GB on Xbox Series X|S at launch.

@PauloCereda WOW

@JosephWright wow indeed!

@JosephWright no, I think World of Warcraft is smaller.

@PauloCereda we say something along the lines: "This is no tank."

@Skillmon ooh

@Skillmon :)

ooh twitter.com/RabbitEveryHour/status/1700146974136455550

@JosephWright if you add some nice colors ;-) btw. looks to me like the edges could have arrows to understand the directions on how to read the chart

Two psfrag questions the same day, interesting that it is still used.

@UlrikeFischer Nothing, as far as I know. It was not a criticism against the package, I was more amused about people still going that route, given that tikz/metapost and similar tools exist and are popular (in particular tikz).

(In other news, I just got a new binary that cut the compilation time on the 300 pages math book from about 9s about a month ago to 8.2s.)

@mickep the eps are often created with external tools, e.g. in chemistry they have special applications to build molecules etc, and redoing such graphics with tikz or metapost or similar would be lots of work.

@mickep what will you do with the 0.8 sec? ;-)

@UlrikeFischer Well, almost 10% quicker does not hurt.

@mickep I invite you to draw Taxol using MetaPost ;)

@JosephWright don't even know what that is...

@mickep ^^^

@JosephWright Looks doable, but I see the point (and I did not question psfrag)

@mickep Oh, it's doable (see e.g. chemfig), but not comfortable, and also not re-usable

@DavidCarlisle In the early days of the Usenet, which you and I were witness to, there was the yearly flood of clueless people that happened every autumn. For some reason Penn State was one of the main sources of this cluelessness. I'm having such distinct feelings of déja vu right now... :)

@AlanMunn haha

@JosephWright -- Sometime in the last century, I had the opportunity to visit the production office of Chem Abstracts, to see how they put their journal together. (This was at the time that AMS was undertaking computerization of Math Reviews.) The thing that impressed me most was the way they handled the two radically different components. I don't remember how they handled text, except that it was relatively primitive, But the software for diagrams was phenomenal! What's most important, after all.

@barbarabeeton If it was after the late 1980s, would be the mighty ChemDraw (before that life was more 'interesting')

@JosephWright -- No, I'm sure it was earlier, because MR first was prepared using the STI system, before TeX was known, much less existed. So, interesting indeed!

@barbarabeeton Ah, right, yes - I know some stuff from then (underlying data structures were something i read about around 1990)

Wow, somebody is in a really bad mood on the main site ...

@samcarter impressing isn't it? I'm looking for the chips ...

@UlrikeFischer mmm, can't decide between ice cream and pop corn :)

@samcarter Never seen something like this on TeX.SE. Though like @UlrikeFischer I find this morbidly entertaining...

@samcarter you're such a troll

@DavidCarlisle absolutely :) And asking for the .log file is an "inflammatory reply"

@samcarter oh pity they stopped ;-(

I got a new mobile + case ^^^ Bär is impressed ...

@UlrikeFischer Oh, that's a nice combination!

@UlrikeFischer he's probably stealing it

@DavidCarlisle too heavy for the Bär.

@DavidCarlisle As long as he leaves the cable plugged in, one can follow the lead :)

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@mickep Good

@cfr sorry I'm a bit distracted at present maybe @UlrikeFischer or @JosephWright might comment on tex.stackexchange.com/q/693995/1090 before I get back to it...(if we ask nicely:-)

@DavidCarlisle ;-). I can look tomorrow (or today, but when the sun shines again).

@UlrikeFischer That would be great. Thank you. I really don't have a clue where to begin even looking.

@DavidCarlisle No problem. I almost asked in chat earlier, but I thought it might seem rude when you'd said you'd look.