JordiGH Voorhees @JordiGH@mathstodon.xyz

Time for new #introductions!

I'm Jordi. #Mexican expat living in #Montreal, #Canada. I can say expat instead of immigrant 'cause I've had a super-sheltered and comfortable life. Nothing dreadful has ever happened to me.

I like #mathematics, #knitting, #skating, #swimming, and old #gameing because I'm old (not that old).

I also do software stuff because of course.

I work on #GreenhouseGas assessments and #environmental #mapping, which I want to call #ecological cause we need that word again!

OH: "given that browsers do so much, they might as well implement TeX"

We have \(\LaTeX\), see?

\[
\int_{\partial S} \omega = \int_S d\omega
\]

An actual real poll about #Mercurial!

re: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D7146

A new `hg grep` is about to be released into the world. If you're in a subdirectory, should `hg grep` by default search.

Yesterday on the ballot there was a communist party and a Marxist-Leninist party. Old rivalries die hard, eh?

(There was also a people's party that doesn't seem to be about the people at all.)

After almost a week of downtime, I'm happy to report that @GayUpdateBot and @Chocobot are operational once more.

Sorry for the service interruption.

I can relate, my family also often tries to relate to me that way.

OH: "Ruby is Python for people that miss Perl"

It's an interesting situation. I have the source code for a free image, but it's not mine. Can I upload it to Wikipedia? Did the original author already give permission to the source code, since he gave permission to the image under the GFDL, which supposedly includes source code?

Well, looks like now I have a #Wikipedia sidequest:

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Village_pump/Copyright#Can_I_upload_the_source_code_of_an_image?

<durin42> JordiGH: congrats, you successfully lobbied for #Mercurial's second breaking change

Yay, I made a difference!

https://www.mercurial-scm.org/repo/hg/rev/d782cce137fd

Tick tock tick tock

https://climateclock.net/

Well, as a first step, I've managed to to get the original #Fortran code from Wikipedia running.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shallow_water_equations

I downloaded it a long time ago from the author's website, which I can't find again now. If you're curious, I can send you a copy:

(Plotted with #Octave and #ffmpeg)

Now I just have to translate it to #SQL, haha!

I'm starting to think I could probably solve the shallow water wave equations in SQL.

It's come to my attention that some people are interpreting this reading of the sprite as a correction of their previous reading. No, this is me showing how I used to read the sprite incorrectly. I didn't know that octoroks were supposed to be big-snouted octopuses.

In #SQL windowing functions are functions that operate on a possibly moving window of your SQL rows. They're pretty handy.

Oracle calls them "analytic functions" and that's such a big name clash for me.

Did you ever had trouble reading the #Octorok sprite? I used to.

I went to see War, an Indian action film. So good. Just the kind of mindless entertainment I was after. A cross of Bourne and Mission Impossible. Beautifully choreographed action scenes.

But it's an Indian movie, so of course Jason Bourne and Ethan Hunt take a break from the action to perform a dazzling dance number in full colour:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0kfLTq57_Y0