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Posted by zahrevsky 2 days ago

LaTeX Coffee Stains (2021) [pdf](ctan.math.illinois.edu)
379 points | 91 commentspage 2
zippyman55 2 days ago|
This looks like the old Lucent Technologies corporate logo. This would have been handy back in the day.
SanjayMehta 2 days ago|
Dogbert's "Brown ring of quality."

Good times.

TeamDman 1 day ago||
See also: using Mathematica for drawing the circles like in the movie Arrival

https://youtu.be/r8nTifCIr0c

notorandit 1 day ago||
Half done job or just a starting point! We need also:

* tea strains

* bread crumbles (squashed among paper leaves)

* tomato sauce drops

* hair

> A lot of time can be saved by printing [extra stuff] directly on the page rather than adding them manually!

Schlagbohrer 1 day ago|
And a squashed fly every thousand pages or so
dredmorbius 9 hours ago||
Paw prints!

<https://news.artnet.com/art-world/cats-medieval-manuscripts-...>

bmenrigh 2 days ago||
I'm happy this is public domain. In 2023 I used the stain images as the basis for a CTF challenge (for BSidesSF). The encoded flag given to participants was https://github.com/BSidesSF/ctf-2023-release/blob/main/alien...

Unfortunately the challenge was a bit too hard and went unsolved during the competition.

hughw 2 days ago|
It's hard to imagine a reason for it being kept... proprietary?
bmenrigh 2 days ago||
A lot of people want to slap licenses on things without really thinking about what the license will do (or prevent), in practice.

I like the author's note about the license: "As we do not believe in imaginary property, this package belongs to the public domain."

I think it's much more common to see a Creative Commons license on this sort of thing.

viraptor 2 days ago||
And even then, when people have good intentions they don't anyways know about edge cases. Please give things a licence in addition to placing it in public domain, because in some countries (like Australia) you can't release your rights that way.
deckar01 2 days ago||
Coffee stains should look like water color paints. The fluid deposits pigment more at dry boundaries as evaporation and absorption approach equilibrium.
velcrovan 2 days ago||
Reminds me of Windows 3.11 programs that would add random "coffee stains" to your "desktop" "wallpaper"
kkkqkqkqkqlqlql 2 days ago||
Finally, I can drink my yerba mate and not be dismissed as a researcher.
anishgupta 1 day ago||
Here we go, trying to feel authenticity in our new world. Mistakes are beautiful
arunc 2 days ago|
To save our children in the academia, we need a "Rewrite In Typst" movement, the equivalent of rewrite in rust!
sieste 2 days ago||
If only they had stuck with latex maths syntax instead of inventing their own, I would have switched ages ago and encouraged others to do the same...
kzrdude 2 days ago|||
math without infernal backslashes is one of the reasons I love Typst
xigoi 2 days ago||||
What’s the point of switching if you’re going to leave in the worst part?
tcfhgj 2 days ago|||
maybe someone will write a package for latex math
TRiG_Ireland 2 days ago||
It's called mitex: https://typst.app/universe/package/mitex
aragilar 1 day ago||
Does it support amsmath?
TRiG_Ireland 1 day ago||
I think so, but I'm no expert in typesetting mathematics.
aragilar 17 hours ago||
That's not exactly encouraging... My biggest gripe with typst is the various design choices which make writing maths much harder than LaTeX (and given many of the issues with LaTeX usability come from having to use poorly maintained legacy packages, not having basic functionality in the core of the replacement seems naive at best).
iberator 1 day ago|||
Nearly all academia uses MS-OFFICE instead of TeX insanity. Only hardcore phds use it really
auguzanellato 2 days ago||
There’s a bit of resistance sadly. My supervisor is “forcing” me to use LaTeX for my MSc thesis sadly.
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