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[–] Zink@programming.dev 1 points 1 hour ago

One of my all time favorite wallpapers is the Hubble Ultra Deep field.

Checkmate ~~athei~~ astronomers!

[–] mumblerfish@lemmy.world 5 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

Who goes through the effort of changing the font in LaTeX to comic sans?

[–] fossilesque@mander.xyz 5 points 3 hours ago (1 children)
\usepackage{fontspec}
\setmainfont{Comic Sans MS}
[–] grue@lemmy.world 3 points 2 hours ago (1 children)
[–] christopher@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 hour ago

Better than wing dings font

[–] mmmm@sopuli.xyz 2 points 3 hours ago

I recall when CERN announced the discovery of the Higgs bosson... in Comic Sans

(Though to be fair it was something like PowerPoint slides or something)

[–] cattywampas@lemmy.world 10 points 4 hours ago

"So what does it look like?

"That question has no answer since it is much smaller than the wavelength of visible light."

"Oh."

[–] marcos@lemmy.world 13 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

What are you talking about?

It looks like a bright dot. Or a dark one if you are photographing it.

[–] I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world 4 points 4 hours ago

But sometimes... Sometimes, when it's super clear out, you can focus on a nebula and stack a bunch of images together to get... A dark smudge.