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How to have doas insult you (with insults straight from deraadt@):

jo.ie/doas-insults.html

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Success! After wrangling with radeondrm/EFI issues, I finally managed to get 6.3 running on my old iMac with multiple monitors fully supported (thanks to some manual modeline work with cvt and xrandr)

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Update/expansion of my intro last year. I'm now going into fourth year maths rather than theoretical physics, having switched degrees. (That's assuming I pass some exams this week that I deferred due to illness).

I brew beer as a hobby, and code when I have spare time. I enjoy writing science fiction, but I'm a long way away from publishing anything.

I have 111 characters spare so: My favourite equation is \(\int_M \mathrm{d}\omega = \int_{\partial M}\omega\)

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Przyblyski's Star: A star with more praesodymium in its spectrum than iron. Is it aliens? Maybe, but unlikely. Is it a measurement error? Probably not. Is it evidence of the island of stability? Surprisingly, this might be the most likely outcome. Is it weird as fuck? YES.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Przybyls

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Obscure-ish topic, but does anybody here have any textbook / expository paper recommendations for contact geometry?

It's been a while now since my degree, but I've had to help out a sibling with some thermodynamics homework, and it's sparked my interest in the geometric side of physics again.

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I've think I've got a new favourite paper.

"The Meanderings of a Weapon Oriented Mind When Applied in a Vacuum Such as the Moon"

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Obscure-ish topic, but does anybody here have any textbook / expository paper recommendations for contact geometry?

It's been a while now since my degree, but I've had to help out a sibling with some thermodynamics homework, and it's sparked my interest in the geometric side of physics again.

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beta board arriving tomorrow! (According to DHL. So it might be another two weeks)

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Frost, glowball wolf

@j ... course, that would require ANOTHER protocol soooo never mind.

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Frost, glowball wolf

Hot take: X11's separation of the window manager and the display server is really good and Wayland is taking a step backward by combining the two.

If KWin crashes or I need to restart it, I shouldn't lose EVERYTHING.

And yes, this does happen.

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Google Blocking Web Privacy Proposals at W3C cpomagazine.com/data-privacy/g

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TIL that the Kama Sutra recommends that women learn crypto:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mlecchit

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@j @EdgarMartinezMoro you didn't ask me, but it's youtube.com/watch?v=UTby_e4-Rh

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@EdgarMartinezMoro Hey, welcome to Mathstodon. What's your favourite finite simple group?

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JordiGH

I bought an NES!!

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:flan_brick: Michael W Lucas¹

@florian You dragged it so that you wouldn't have to interact with each other as human beings, that's all.

I am an artist. I am flexible.

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I have had a small length of CAT-5 cable in my coat pocket for at least the last two years. It has followed me across the Atlantic and back. I don’t think I’ve ever used it, and can’t for the life of me remember why I put it there.

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ColinTheMathmo

Oh, crap. Just learned that Peter Neumann died of covid this morning.

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I invite you to speculate in the comments on what they might have been told in the associated class, but the poll concerns a first year secondary school question (in Italy) which asks:

"True or false, the successor to pi is pi+1".

Please boost to get beyond my bubble - thx.

16 people · Dec 13, 2020, 14:13
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JordiGH

Phew! It is done! I've signed a contract! I'm writing a book!

I'll be streaming the writing for as long as it seems good and interesting to do so. I'll be starting in January.

New Year's resolution: write a book.

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JordiGH

Tentative table of contents:

Introduction
Chapter 1 – How to Prove It
Chapter 2 – Logic and Set Theory
Chapter 3 – Real Numbers
Chapter 4 – Complex Numbers
Chapter 5 – Polynomials
Chapter 6 – Matrix Algebra
Chapter 7 – Derivatives
Chapter 8 – Iterated Function Systems
Chapter 9 – Analytic Functions
Chapter 10 – Möbius Transforms
Chapter 11 – Basic Number Theory
Chapter 12 – Groups
Chapter 13 – Elliptic Curves
Appendix A – Table of Notation

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*spent

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Looking forward to it! Let me know if you run into any LaTeX issues/turing-tarpit-hellscapes, I spend a good chunk of my undergrad debugging other people's TeX, so I'm happy to lend a hand.

Any areas of maths in particular?

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