Bongcloud Attack The Bongcloud Attack is a "joke" chess opening that consists of the moves 1.e4 e5 2.Ke2?The opening is primarily associated with the Grandmaster Hikaru Nakamura, who has used it in online blitz chess and occasionally for humorous effect in…

Finally – a purpose for the least-used key on your keyboard

A while back I answered a question on Quora: Can people actually keep up with note-taking in Mathematics lectures with LaTeX.
There, I explained my workflow of taking lecture notes in LaTeX using Vim and how I draw figures in Inkscape.
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