I don't watch much YouTube, but I do heartily recommend Georg Rockall-Schmidt

Depressing politics/economics, but in a sarcastic, humourous, ironic, meta, Pratchett/Adams sort of way

(Ridiculous video about hangovers)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQpEYWVrr9c

(Channel link)
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCG5h8yHSUS4n7zPnh0dG0SA

(RSS link)
https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=UCG5h8yHSUS4n7zPnh0dG0SA

@fkinoshita Good luck! Remember, they are more afraid of you, than you are of them

💾🖥️📖 Inside the Personal Computer: An Illustrated Introduction in 3 Dimensions: A Pop-Up Guide. Text by Sharon Gallagher. Paper engineering and design by Ron van der Meer (1984). Posting this and more as we get our #retrocomputing series ready for next month!

@fkinoshita Awesome, I think that'll be useful to look at when I'm not sure what to use!

It is interesting how it eventually just becomes a sentence. I.e., how I would say the expression if I was talking to someone

@screwtape Do you mean how LaTeX tends to use unicode symbols? I find that 99% of LaTeX is actually positioning and resizing symbols (something that is tricky with just plaintext)

Interestingly, the AucTeX mode in Emacs has a cool feature where it displays things like subscripts, superscripts, prettify-symbols, as you go

(I might have misunderstood your question!)

I've always had a sort of low-level hatred and appreciation for LaTeX. I've been thinking recently it would be cool to just write maths in plain-text, I've even made some diagrams and whatnot with ASCII.

Turns out Plan9 has some hotkeys for unicode stuff, including some maths symbols!

cat /lib/keyboard

(Notes from "All of Statistics")

#plan9 #9front #maths #tex

(And on OpenBSD you might like to modify /etc/firefox/unveil.main and /etc/firefox/unveil.content, to allow access to your Documents directory)

I have become an expert at setting up Firefox. My procedure is:

- Remove all the random stuff from the toolbar (i.e., profile, spacer)

- Remove all the spam from the home screen

- Add English GB to the languages

- Disable smooth scroll, video controls, and "recommend crap as you browse"

- Enable autoscroll

- Privacy on strict, "Do Not Track"

- Block all requests for notifications

- Disable data collection

- Install UBlock Origin (and unpin from toolbar)

- Use DuckDuckGo, kill Bing

@bellinitte@merveilles.town Very cool! I thought it might be fun to make a little multiplayer Nethack-style online game, that you could join from Telnet or something...but I don't know anything about net code! :)

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Sure, some people might be faster and more confident. Fuck 'em. There's no reason to be number 1 when number 7,345,240 will do

If life is a competition, the only losers are the unhappy

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You are intelligent. The fact that you have made it this far is, by any conceivable metric, proof of your intelligence. There is no reason to believe that you will suddenly become "not intelligent". The human brain is essentially unlimited. You can always make more synapses, more pathways, more knowledge. We, as a species, have comically massive heads. That's a lot of room for the little grey cells

if you want to read something about vector graphics, i can recommend this https://alexharri.com/blog/vector-networks

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Perhaps its because I was never taught programming, its something I scrabbled together through trial and (mostly) error. It was a skill I created at 1am listening to electronic music and reading man pages

Whereas maths is a sacred, old thing. Created by über-geniuses and protected by mighty universities. Like a magic, it is imparted by the enlightened onto the uninitiated. I don't feel like I "own" it, I merely "use" it from time to time

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I love programming, and generally tinkering with computers in convoluted and obnoxious ways. But for some reason I feel apprehensive about saying, "I love maths"...despite the fact that I have a maths degree, teach maths, and every proper job I have had has required maths

#programming #maths #computerscience #compsci

Help yourself to an alpha code for Soulframe, needs a lot of work but the Warframe lot are pretty cool :)

C3A9-F843-A381-C9A6

0B47-970D-22E2-8C98

1305-D8AA-6ABA-6168

FA33-A64C-8B8F-D7F7 (used)

https://www.soulframe.com/en/promocodes

#soulframe #warframe

I've got a little USB2 stick from HP that for some reason completely refuses to show up in the boot menu of my x220. Multiple other USBs show up absolutely no problem (even USB3s show up!). Very confusing

Maybe it is Coreboot/SeaBIOS being odd...

#thinkpad #x220 #coreboot #seabios #usb

I posted on my blog about the "elephant in the room": how to continue to teach and advocate for a topic as abstract and as seemingly disconnected from the real world as mathematics, in times of extreme change and uncertainty. https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2024/11/08/the-elephant-in-the-room/

"Quaffing is like drinking, but you spill more"