@sundogplanets

1819.

In https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcp.2022.111413 I cite Horner's famous 1819 contribution to the Royal Society. It's a bit of an overblown reference for the Horner form of polynomial evaluation (which is just a side-effect of Art.15 in the essay), but still …

Beati i popoli che non hanno bisogno di eroi
E quelli che non trovano nei propri territori ricchezze (petrolio, diamanti, terre rare)

@Paradox aren't you supposed to stop on a yellow light if you can do so safely (i.e. without a sudden brake) anyway?

One day, I'll figure out how PostScript's support for all this OpenType nonsense is supposed to work.

wizard's crown, screenshot, apple II (1986) https://www.mobygames.com/game/1011/wizards-crown/screenshots/apple2/425944/

#housekinokuni #landofthelustrous #diamond

The only value of a “live action” remake of an animated movie is to highlight all the advantages of animation

Ecco sempre la stessa storia
Una guarda due puntate di witch from mercury e già cerca dei giochini coi mech e una trama.

SI, STO CERCANDO ROBOTTONI CON LA TRAMA NON SCRITTA DA UN INCEL O ALMENO COL PROTAGONISTA NON MASCHIO, PROPRIO PAZZA EH

Muahahahahaha MWAAHHAAAHAHAHAAAA
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😅

https://forum.cursor.com/t/cursor-yolo-deleted-everything-in-my-computer/103131/2

EDIT: aperiodic *tilings*, not aperiodic *tiles*. You can arrange these tiles periodically. That'll teach me to take a second to read an abstract!

Whoah! More aperiodic monotiles! https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.07638

Planting rice in the rain 🌾 ☔️ #NaganoPrefecture #ChikumaCity #japan

Well-designed cat food should come in a nice cat-sized cardboard box, not in a plastic bag.

:blobcatbox:

Conoscete per caso una newsletter (o un feed rss, ma so di chiedere troppo) a cadenza tipo settimanale, con le uscite cinematografiche nelle sale italiane? #mastoaiuto

"The Facebook of the Fediverse"

https://livefasteattrashraccoon.github.io/2025/06/13/what-makes-friendica-shine.html

#friendica #fediverse

DID YOU KNOW the queer community adopted the symbol of the rainbow because of the acronym:
Resbian
Ay
Isexual
Nransgender
Bueer
Ontersex
Wasexual

(The only one my phone didn't autocorrect to the actual term was the last one, which was changed to "wasteful" and that is honestly acephobic.)

@sundogplanets For me, probably William Paley's "Natural Theology" of 1802
(and yes I did read it, not just cite it!)

@sundogplanets 1687 Isaac Newton Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica. https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1687pnpm.book.....N/abstract

@sundogplanets Personally, can't claim anything much older than 1960...

But my father, a physicist, cited a paper from 1675 (I know because he asked me to go and copy some pages from it in our university library, because theirs didn't have a copy and these rare books aren't really available for borrowing).

It was the oldest mention he could find of acid rain, in case anybody wonders.

Those of you who have written science research papers, what's the oldest paper you've cited in a paper you published? (I just saw a citation to an 1843 paper.) Pretty sure my oldest reference is only 1920 or so.

(I know, you historians out there are going to have scientists beat, but you're also welcome to share)

The bizarrely badly written "regulate social media to protect the kids" bill here in Massachusetts is up for a committee hearing next week:

https://malegislature.gov/Events/Hearings/Detail/5220

A backgrounder I wrote:

https://www.sunclipse.org/?p=3377

... And now I've signed up to testify against it in person.