prashanthvsdvn

@prashanthvsdvn@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How are engine sounds in racing games played ?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not sure about Forza, but check out This guy. He makes out great engine simulation sounds that are close to real life counter parts

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨LPT Do it.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Overleaf have hundreds of them. The problem is not the availability or using them. The problem is before your resume reaches a human, it is filtered via a ATS parser and generally it doesn’t like any fancy formatting. So unless your resume is machine readable, it automatically trashes your resume out.

  I was vehemently sitting on my Data driven LaTeX typeset resume for months but didn’t have much success until I took a plain old word template and ported everything there. It is what it is.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨LPT Do it.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I know it’s a long video but you have no idea what’s possible.

  youtu.be/cMlRAiQUdD8

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨LPT Do it.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Do you have a good LaTeX template for it. I did make a data driven based LaTeX pdf for my resume but it’s a nightmare when applying for jobs these days, since they have that ATS parser nonsense, which will throw the entire resume down if it isn’t as very plain and boring word document without much formatting.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨LPT Do it.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is just basic make changes to file, git add and commit workflow. Other features of git like branching can be leveraged for greater control but are optional. What makes it magical is 3 seperate systems working together with such symphony namely git, Zotero and pandoc. Zotero is citation manager that you can use store scientific articles, papers, thesis etc. and it can produce a bibliography file and pandoc can reference those along with the citations in the make file to create a clean typesetted Word or LaTeX pdf with precise numbering, table of contents, citations and bibliography with correct format without you needing to edit anything.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨LPT Do it.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Markdown and pandoc are like match made in heaven for this. If you didn’t know, Markdown is plain text file, has a simple syntax for formatting (that gets carried over when you use pandoc), supports LaTeX equations and can attach metadata as yaml part on top of the file (gives custom usability when pandoc works on it). And pandoc is document converter between multiple formats and can produce word files, PowerPoints, html file, latex pdfs (book, report, Beamer presentations) etc. You can also provide a template for pandoc to work with and it produces in that format. Not to mention since it’s plain text, you can apply git version control and also use make files to iteratively compile new outputs.

  There is also RMarkdown (or it’s newer successor Quartro), which is same markdown pipeline but also can compute codes inside a section and attaches the result to the markdown file and does the whole pandoc thing afterwards. Think of it as like Jupyter Notebook style of literate programming with Markdown. Here’s a demonstration of its capabilities. youtu.be/_D-ux3MqGug

  Assuming your colleagues can work with git but not LaTeX, you can set up a git repo with just markdown files and collaborate on that and have a makefile or docker container to get the final word or pdf generated. Here’s a good example of an pandoc makefile gist.github.com/kristopherjohnson/7466917

  In Worst case scenario that they only work with word files, you can generate one from your markdown files and share with them and pull down the changes they sent you on the word document.

  P.S. I assume Org-Mode can also substitute Markdown here in the pipeline. But I haven’t committed to it, so I’m not fully sure.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨LPT Do it.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Then start writing in Markdown. Markdown is easier in syntax, supports LaTeX equations, has metadata and is in plain text so you can use git. And the killer feature is you can use pandoc to convert the markdown file into word, pptx, LaTeX pdfs, html etc. you can also setup a make file that runs pandoc when you ask like this

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ouroboros⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Isn’t the reason they do the bluffing by flaring the hood like cobra and the entire roll up throw tongue out pretend to die if you call out the bluff is because they are not venomous

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ouroboros⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Have you ever seen the hognose??

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Well data extraction from PDF is always tricky and there isn’t a defined way of how to translate PDF to EPUB 1:1 so I don’t think it’s calibre is the problem. It’s difficult to program how to reverse engineer automatically.