That’s a nice anecdote to tell during the interview. Chances are that’ll be enough to get you the job.
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user224@lemmy.sdf.org 6 days agoMate, even you just understanding what LaTeX and HTML do
With HTML, I only meant something like basic 90s/early 2000s websites. That doesn’t really need much. For example, toastytech.com. Using tables for layout is probably not done anymore.
When it comes to LaTeX, we just had to use it for an assignment in school, so that’s where I came in contact with it.
And even that’s something I struggled with. The entire page was supposed to be a colored table. I’ve used tabularx, but it kept being slightly off the page. For some reason, wrapping it between center fixed it, but I don’t know what I did wrong there.
It would have probably been easier if I did it in Overleaf (online LaTeX editing platform).
Instead, me being me, I was doing it last-minute. In a train. Full train, so I couldn’t even sit down to use a laptop, as such I had to use my phone. There are apparently some issues with texlive on Termux, so I didn’t run it locally.
Instead I had to SSH to my mini PC over Tailscale, edit the document using Vim, compile with pdflatex, copy the PDF to my phone using scp, view it, delete, browse around StackExchange (where I found someone mention the center workaround), and repeat.
On a phone, while standing in a moving train. Quite the user experience.
Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 6 days ago
saimen@feddit.org 6 days ago
You have to understand that probably 99% of people wouldn’t be able to do that or even understand what you are talking about while at the same time there are a lot of businesses needing people to do stuff like that. Formal education is good and important but most of the time what you end up doing in your job you learn while doing the job.