In the past, Valve has hired some of their most longest-tenured employees from modding, although not necessarily on GoldSrc - Counter-Strike and QuakeWorld Team Fortress come to mind. (But of course never Richochet.) The Narbacular Drop team came straight out of DigiPen with a noncommercial thesis project as well.
On the other hand, you do get the full (La)TeX ecosystem to draw on. If I want to draw a commutative diagram, I can add tikzcd to the preamble, and insert inline TeX to do so.
There is some support for the LaTeX ecosystem from within TeXmacs. If you want a TikZ drawing, you can insert it programmatically into a TeXmacs document in a seamless way---if you have the same font for your TeXmacs document and for LaTeX it will be nicely integrated as far as I know,
You can see the blog post
https://texmacs.github.io/notes/docs/embedding-tikz-figures-...
That article's even better: the bet was a bipartisan one!
> The WSJ report noted that Cole sought advice from other fiscal policy wonks, including Brookings Institution fellow Jessica Riedl, who said the outcome of the bet “should have been completely obvious to anyone who knows anything about the government, the budget and public administration.”
Anyone with any sort of intellectual honesty, or reads any kind of responsible news source would know that despite a solidly controlled GOP government, "fiscal responsibility" is just a slogan for the GOP. They're big government and big deficit spenders through and through.
Not to be obtuse, but for what definition of putting money, and what definition of gambling? I think it's reasonable to distinguish between, say, holding Berkshire Hathaway and day trading. And I'm not sure that you can lump the two together into a definition of gambling that doesn't end up being too broad to be useful.
Oh god no, it's not the maintainer. It's frankly a student with no prior experience in both the language and the codebase, asking the maintainer permission for pushing a lot of ai generated code with chatgpt for his resume?
Atleast he has the decency to ask for stuff first and being straight.
The maintainer is the first comment, agreeing with the post author:
> I concur, but there are two issues with this: Building the foundation of an editor is way harder than building features later on top of that, and currently it is unlikely that Microsoft will fund me to spend half a year working purely on this project. So, I'll work on this whenever I can, which is not much.
The maintainer has used a hyped language to write a simple editor that already exists. Do I need to say more?
OK.
The code will be abandoned in 2 years. Maybe it doesn't comes to more features.
I've used LyX for a very long time. It has the best graphical equation editor I've ever used: it natively supports all of the complex structures you'd want, can be used incredibly efficiently via the keyboard (e.g. tab-completion and tab-navigation), and is still incredibly discoverable via GUI.
In general, it's just a very pragmatic layer on top of LaTeX. I've done a lot of complex ad-hoc formatting in it as well.
I like, that one can define macros in LyX. For example I wrote a simple macro that looks like "paren(thing)" which is then translated to "\left(" thing "\right)". This makes it much easier to write formulas, because I don't have to keep track of parens at all. LyX in this way makes it more convenient to write TeX/LaTeX.
I think they're using it in a technical sense that's idiosyncratic to America: "career" members of the Foreign Service Corps, versus "political" appointees that can be directly appointed at higher ranks, but at the pleasure of the (in turn politically-appointed) secretary.
The first might have joined the Foreign Service and worked their way up; the second might have had a career elsewhere (not necessarily in political office), get invited to work for an administration, and then leave once there's a change in power.
> but at the pleasure of the (in turn politically-appointed) secretary
Parent is correct. The amount varies from administration to administration. But if you really want to be an ambassador, you're well positioned if you bundle a few hundred thousand to a few million dollars for the winning campaign. (There are traditionally limits. You can't usually buy your way into the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad or London. But for the postings with limited security implications, where the focus is on trade, you're mostly hosting expensive parties for your post.)
It's not clear on my end what scenario you're talking about here.
Are you talking about a potential situation where a Drugs-R-Us are using (for example) an American service, but directing them to store it on EU servers?
Or are you talking about Drugs-R-Us using a non-American service in general?
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