I like baking. There are machines that can bake bread at an industrial scale that I cannot compete with. There are home kneaders that do much of the work very well. I use one of those more often than not. I still think…
I contend that this is natural evolution. Every GUI app is a browser nowadays, and that leaves a niche for leaner apps to fill. This is what TUI apps seem to be doing. Cross platform GUI is hard unless you elect to…
> Do we trust them or don't we? GP trusts them for reviewing external extension code, and ensure that it does not contain malware, but not for not inserting exception to their own telemetry if they wrote the code…
One thing I like with pandoc is that it produces clean html or latex code (it can also produce clean markdown with the right option). If you compare this with the HTML produced by typst or hevea, this is super useful,…
> Mathematicians are, indeed, also paid to teach, peer-review, go to conferences and learn mathematics, but all of that better result in some damn good theorems. As a mathematician who publishes theorems, I think this…
Doesn't the quoted sentence indicate they did? How would they have known it has been updated since otherwise?
Because I have personally never seen "jazzes" pluralised and I didn't think of it. Maths and math are both used, and the reason I used the plural form is not because I insist on anything but because it is the most…
For me it's about having a distraction-free environment. I dislike having useless information cluttering my screen real-estate. Even now that I moved away from text-only, I typically work only with fullscreen windows.…
Actually I think that maths and jazz have something in common in the general public peception that you have to be smart to "get it". Nobody will try to perform a deep intellectual analysis of Lady Gaga's or Ed Sheeran's…
There are slightly more women than men on Tristan de Cunha [0]. [0] https://www.tristandc.com/population.php
> It doesn’t matter how blue you die your hair If your intention is honest engagement with people you disagree with, you should refrain from ad-hominem attacks like this. Work with their arguments, not with their tastes…
That the credit for the theorem belongs to Cantor is not under question. This is acknolwedged in the article: >The revelation about Cantor’s result doesn’t undermine his legacy. He was still the first person to prove…
And maybe they will. We have gone from the industry clamouring that what's being done now is not possible and spending millions of lobbying money against it, to such laws spreading like wildfire. The next step is the…
> Requiring ID is not entirely the right approach here I think It is in the sense that it entices the industry to come up with a better approach. Otherwise they'll just sit on their piles of gold saying that it can't be…
It depends how you define "good writing", which is too often associated with "proper language", and by extension with proper breeding. It is a class marker. People have a distinct voice when they write, including…
The comments suggest to recuse the judges from countries involved, or to remove the lowest or highest scores for each contestant. If you remove the scores given by the judges from France and the US, the French pair…
> The very fact people think they need to read (fiction) books released this year more than ones released before is baffling. Do they really? I was comparing rates of production vs consumption. It doesn't follow that…
> Can't they figure out what books to get without being told? Probably not? People are not "being told" what to read, they are given some opinionated advice which they can then decide to follow or not. According to…
This quote explains why the author thinks that it is a problem : > with string theorists now virtually unemployable unless they can figure out how to rebrand as machine learning experts. Their issue is (seemingly) not…
> Distance education is a tiny percentage of higher education though. It is about a third of the students I teach, which amounts to several hundreds per term. It may be niche, but it is not insignificant, and definitely…
A limitation of written exams is in distance education, which simply was hardly a thing for the hundreds of years exams were used. Just like WFH is a new practice employers have to learn to deal with, study from home…
Being obnoxious works well. Obnoxious people get elected to power. Obnoxious companies (and CEOs) generate hype that increases stock prices. Obnoxious youtubers call themselves influencers and make a good living out of…
> a bit more time actually parenting Well, "blame the parents" is as hypocritical as "think of the children". It just displaces the responsibility of excluding kids from society from the community to the parents.…
You could force kids to read books without forcing which books to read. The issue as always is to find a balance between giving kids agency and making sure they do what's right.
> It should be one component of all the tools available to the programmer. > All text editors worth using have a way to open a terminal for that one time you need it. Is this not somewhat self-contradictory? Having the…
I like baking. There are machines that can bake bread at an industrial scale that I cannot compete with. There are home kneaders that do much of the work very well. I use one of those more often than not. I still think…
I contend that this is natural evolution. Every GUI app is a browser nowadays, and that leaves a niche for leaner apps to fill. This is what TUI apps seem to be doing. Cross platform GUI is hard unless you elect to…
> Do we trust them or don't we? GP trusts them for reviewing external extension code, and ensure that it does not contain malware, but not for not inserting exception to their own telemetry if they wrote the code…
One thing I like with pandoc is that it produces clean html or latex code (it can also produce clean markdown with the right option). If you compare this with the HTML produced by typst or hevea, this is super useful,…
> Mathematicians are, indeed, also paid to teach, peer-review, go to conferences and learn mathematics, but all of that better result in some damn good theorems. As a mathematician who publishes theorems, I think this…
Doesn't the quoted sentence indicate they did? How would they have known it has been updated since otherwise?
Because I have personally never seen "jazzes" pluralised and I didn't think of it. Maths and math are both used, and the reason I used the plural form is not because I insist on anything but because it is the most…
For me it's about having a distraction-free environment. I dislike having useless information cluttering my screen real-estate. Even now that I moved away from text-only, I typically work only with fullscreen windows.…
Actually I think that maths and jazz have something in common in the general public peception that you have to be smart to "get it". Nobody will try to perform a deep intellectual analysis of Lady Gaga's or Ed Sheeran's…
There are slightly more women than men on Tristan de Cunha [0]. [0] https://www.tristandc.com/population.php
> It doesn’t matter how blue you die your hair If your intention is honest engagement with people you disagree with, you should refrain from ad-hominem attacks like this. Work with their arguments, not with their tastes…
That the credit for the theorem belongs to Cantor is not under question. This is acknolwedged in the article: >The revelation about Cantor’s result doesn’t undermine his legacy. He was still the first person to prove…
And maybe they will. We have gone from the industry clamouring that what's being done now is not possible and spending millions of lobbying money against it, to such laws spreading like wildfire. The next step is the…
> Requiring ID is not entirely the right approach here I think It is in the sense that it entices the industry to come up with a better approach. Otherwise they'll just sit on their piles of gold saying that it can't be…
It depends how you define "good writing", which is too often associated with "proper language", and by extension with proper breeding. It is a class marker. People have a distinct voice when they write, including…
The comments suggest to recuse the judges from countries involved, or to remove the lowest or highest scores for each contestant. If you remove the scores given by the judges from France and the US, the French pair…
> The very fact people think they need to read (fiction) books released this year more than ones released before is baffling. Do they really? I was comparing rates of production vs consumption. It doesn't follow that…
> Can't they figure out what books to get without being told? Probably not? People are not "being told" what to read, they are given some opinionated advice which they can then decide to follow or not. According to…
This quote explains why the author thinks that it is a problem : > with string theorists now virtually unemployable unless they can figure out how to rebrand as machine learning experts. Their issue is (seemingly) not…
> Distance education is a tiny percentage of higher education though. It is about a third of the students I teach, which amounts to several hundreds per term. It may be niche, but it is not insignificant, and definitely…
A limitation of written exams is in distance education, which simply was hardly a thing for the hundreds of years exams were used. Just like WFH is a new practice employers have to learn to deal with, study from home…
Being obnoxious works well. Obnoxious people get elected to power. Obnoxious companies (and CEOs) generate hype that increases stock prices. Obnoxious youtubers call themselves influencers and make a good living out of…
> a bit more time actually parenting Well, "blame the parents" is as hypocritical as "think of the children". It just displaces the responsibility of excluding kids from society from the community to the parents.…
You could force kids to read books without forcing which books to read. The issue as always is to find a balance between giving kids agency and making sure they do what's right.
> It should be one component of all the tools available to the programmer. > All text editors worth using have a way to open a terminal for that one time you need it. Is this not somewhat self-contradictory? Having the…