DarkSol

DarkSol

@darksol.bsky.social

Staring at the sun since 1982. | Part of the ROMHack.ing leadership collective. | Engineer

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sebmal
@mrdo.pro

seeing multiple reports of new dmca takedowns on cookie's bustle content. if you end up getting one it's not a huge deal just annoying, if you send an email to the address listed in the claim asking for a retraction you'll almost assuredly get it. here's a template you can use pastebin.com/KqTsg0Li

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DarkSol
@darksol.bsky.social

@jamellebouie.net Hey Jamelle, whatever happened with Bodo’s Bagels? Did they back off of intimidating their employees from organizing? I might be misremembering the exact details but I do remember you posting that the owners were being jerks to their employees a while back.

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ateam
@dreamcastforever.com

(1/8) Announcing English default/translation patches for all three volumes of "EMIT" on the FM Towns! These patches boot the game into English mode by default, as well as translate the Japanese-only side game included in each volume. DOWNLOAD: github.com/DerekPascare...

DarkSol
@darksol.bsky.social

@curiousmarc.bsky.social Hey Marc… just saw your latest video and decided to do some snooping on eBay for a post-1999 HP catalog. Look what I found! www.ebay.ca/itm/13519365...

ebay.caTest & Measurements 2000 Catalog & Cdrom - AgilentTechnologies HEWLETT PACKARD h | eBayFind many great new & used options and get the best deals for Test & Measurements 2000 Catalog & Cdrom - AgilentTechnologies HEWLETT PACKARD h at the best online prices at eBay! Free shipping for many...
DarkSol
@darksol.bsky.social

I’ve been tinkering with LaTeX at the office for the past couple of weeks to come up with a proof of concept to generate our requirement documentation automatically and without needing to use MS Word.

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DarkSol
@darksol.bsky.social

I had advocated for this at a previous job because our style guide was over 120 pages long and even then the template was super finicky to wrangle in Word. (Was blown off about my recommendation, but that’s neither here nor there.)

DarkSol
@darksol.bsky.social

Going to do a presentation with my director about this in the new year and how it can help us with an upcoming project that is going to be very large in scope and size.

DarkSol
@darksol.bsky.social

I’ve been tinkering with LaTeX at the office for the past couple of weeks to come up with a proof of concept to generate our requirement documentation automatically and without needing to use MS Word.

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DarkSol
@darksol.bsky.social

Lastly, it just works! If I build the PDF, it spits it out the same way every single time. If I add figures or tables, I don’t have to futz with margins or anything. When there are issues, it is easy(-ish) to fix them.

DarkSol
@darksol.bsky.social

I’ve basically recreated our Word template in LaTex and it takes seconds to generate off of a dataset instead of minutes! 🤯 This is just off of a very small document. Larger files have an incredible time savings, especially if multiple iterations end up being needed.

DarkSol
@darksol.bsky.social

I’ve been tinkering with LaTeX at the office for the past couple of weeks to come up with a proof of concept to generate our requirement documentation automatically and without needing to use MS Word.

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DarkSol
@darksol.bsky.social

First off, LaTeX is relatively easy to learn. As someone who’s only real “coding” experience is VBA, I was a little worried that LaTeX would be difficult to wrap my head around. However, since it’s just putting a document together piece by piece… it makes logical sense from the get go!

DarkSol
@darksol.bsky.social

Secondly, since TeX (and LaTeX) have been around for decades, the ecosystem is robust and very friendly. Can’t figure out how to do a specific thing? There’s either a package that encapsulates the whole process or someone else has had the same issue and the solution is easily found.

DarkSol
@darksol.bsky.social

I’ve been tinkering with LaTeX at the office for the past couple of weeks to come up with a proof of concept to generate our requirement documentation automatically and without needing to use MS Word.

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Luis Aguasvivas
@aguaspoints.bsky.social

Alright, I'm going to get into good trouble for this! For each like and repost I get on this I'll donate $1 dollar to the @gamehistoryorg.bsky.social. I'll keep counting until Monday. @frankcifaldi.bsky.social & @philsalv.bsky.social wish me luck! Hopefully the org gets some decent money from this.

Video Game History Foundation@gamehistoryorg.bsky.social

Video game history in action! 2024 was a big year for moving the conversation forward, preserving important artifacts, and building tools that make access easier for everyone. As our annual Winter Fundraiser heats up, let's look back at the year that was: gamehistory.org/our-2024-in-...

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