Is that Tom Scott from the future?

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This is the best option if you think you’ll use Nebula for more than 5 years.

maybe everyone here is just a rude little shit.

Or maybe you’re just a snowflake that can’t handle criticism.

Is this not rude:

I checked the code and I’m appalled. There are more BLOBs than source code

No. The commenter is voicing their own feelings and explains why they have them. There is neither blaming nor rudeness here.

And this:

I understand that removing BLOBs isn’t a priority over new and shiny features. But due to recent events, this should be rethought.

It would have been nice if you had explained why you think this is rude. The author expresses understanding that the maintainers’ priorities don’t align with the author’s. This seems to be an uncontroversial statement to me.

Then the author explains (I agree, it’s more a hint than an explanation) why they think the priorities should be changed. In my view their argument is sound. Again, there is no blaming or rudeness here.

They should have opened with a complement

I assume you mean “compliment”.

I’ve often heard of the “sandwich technique” – start with a compliment, then voice criticism, end with another positive thing. I find this is an appropriate procedure when voicing open feedback, that is, good things and bad things. However, this is a Github issue. Its whole point is to point out a perceived problem, not to give the maintainers a pat on the back or thank them.

I cannot fathom what in this issue description gives rise to your concern. It’s worded very calmly, clearly explaining why the author thinks these BLOBs shouldn’t be there, expressing an understanding that it’s not a top priority and even closing with a thank you.

A text editor that doesn’t assume that the keys on my keyboard are in the same order as yours.

No, it does.

There’s nothing to say about this

Damn.

There’s nothing to say about this. Just revel in memories, enjoy the moment, and upvote.

I haven’t. Thanks for the tip. This might come in handy when we need to create automated documents again.

I’ve come to that conclusion, too. If only printing support were better, I wouldn’t write anything but HTML.

Take a step back and reconsider. The reason the software is fighting you is because you are trying to make it do something it is not meant for or you’re actively asking it to do the opposite of what you stated earlier you wanted to achieve.

Wise words, and true most of the time.

But goddammit is it so hard not to write over the page border? This isn’t something I should have to specifically define as bad.

Thank you very much.

BTW I wrote my thesis in LibreOffice. That’s its own can of worms, but at least I knew how to wrestle it into submission – other than LaTeX. Set the font to Latin Modern Roman and no-one will know the difference.

Exactly my point.

Yeees, I forgot all about the non-existent module system.

– Professor: Here’s the template for your thesis.

– There are, like, 50 lines of macro imports here. Which modules does this need?

– Fuck if I know. You want my installation? It’s only 50GB.

LaTeX is soo great! You don’t have to worry about formatting ever again.

Puts image I’m talking about 8 pages away from the section that talks about the image

Writes not only over the margin, but over the goddamn page boundary because adding a page was not fashionable that day

Moves a table left by 1 cm on every other compilation, moves it back in the other compilations (happened to a colleague)

So instead of worrying about formatting you worry about learning the incantations that force LaTeX at gunpoint not to fuck up the formatting.