Why would anyone flag this? It's hilarious.
Readit Newskarmakurtisaani commented on Leaving the U.S. for the Netherlands newyorker.com/magazine/20... · Posted by u/rbanffy
The New Yorker house style.
https://www.arrantpedantry.com/2020/03/24/umlauts-diaereses-...
Seems weird to me, I'd just use a hyphen, but that's how they roll.
I bet they have a dedicated room without ventilation so they can smell their own farts uninterrupted. Seriously, I find it highly pretentious.
karmakurtisaani commented on Leaving the U.S. for the Netherlands newyorker.com/magazine/20... · Posted by u/rbanffy
Poland really is a great example of a modern EU state that has flourished, I am so proud of them, they deserve it.
I like to think their economy would be on par with France and Germany if it wasn't for the Russian occupation. But with the present growth, they'll get there soon enough!
karmakurtisaani commented on Leaving the U.S. for the Netherlands newyorker.com/magazine/20... · Posted by u/rbanffy
May I ask, why you want guns? I honestly have no idea why one would want them.
My guess is sense of security. Although that just works if you ignore the fact that now everyone has more access to guns, including criminals! And they typically get to shoot first..
karmakurtisaani commented on Emacs is my new window manager (2015) howardism.org/Technical/E... · Posted by u/gpi
I've moved to openbsd for this reason. It works well and I don't have to deal with Linux drama. Toxic slug strategy is really working well for them.
I once read a comment here or reddit explaining that the X11 developers moved to Wayland because the X11 code has turned into an unmaintainable mess that can't be worked with anymore. So the reasons are not drama, but just plain old tech debt.
This didn't happen at all. You're just completely making shit up.
Yeah I am a bit.
karmakurtisaani commented on Mathematics is hard for mathematicians to understand too science.org/doi/10.1126/s... · Posted by u/mmaaz
It's like saying that learning Arabic is the easy part of writing a great Saudi novel. True, but you have to understand that being literate is the price of admission. Clearly you consider yourself very facile with mathematical notation but you might have some empathy for the inumerate. Not everyone had the good fortune of great math teachers or even the luxury of attending a good school. I believe there is valid frustration borne out of poor mathematical education.
Well yeah, but this empathy and frustration is simply misplaced. I have empathy for people who didn't get good education, and they should be frustrated towards their bad schooling. Math notation is simply the wrong target.
If they can't see that, it's hard to think they have much chance with the actual math. "A mathematician is a person who knows how to separate the relevant from the irrelevant", a saying I was told in school.
karmakurtisaani commented on What's the deal with Euler's identity? lcamtuf.substack.com/p/wh... · Posted by u/surprisetalk
Personally, I prefer the version with tau (2 times pi) in it rather than the one with pi:
e^(i*tau) = 1
I won't reproduce https://www.tauday.com/tau-manifesto here, but I'll just mention one part of it. I very much prefer doing radian math using tau rather than pi: tau/4 radians is just one-fourth of a "turn", one-fourth of the way around the circle, i.e. 90°. Which is a lot easier to remember than pi/2, and would have made high-school trig so much easier for me. (I never had trouble with radians, and even so I would have had a much easier time grasping them had I been taught them using tau rather than pi as the key value).
Ah, one of these battles that are very hard to fight to gain essentially nothing.
Edit: or, when you can't do actual math, you complain about notation.
This is not good. One major outage? Something exceptional. Several outages in a short time? As someone thats worked in operations, I have empathy; there are so many “temp havks” that are put in place for incidents. but the rest of the world won’t… they’re gonna suffer a massive reputation loss if this goes on as long as the last one.
Probably fired a lot of their best people in the past few years and replaced it with AI. They have a de-facto monopoly, so we'll just accept it and wait patiently until they fix the problem. You know, business as usual in the grift economy.
It’s just quiet whispers in small conferences at the moment, but this is how the breaking of all spells begins. The momentum is & will continue to build, and probably quicker than many imagine (or will like!).