Ugh. Microsoft really trying to advertise for Linux again

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My building management uses prepaid cards you have to mail order for the first use. Then you can top them up via credit card and phone verification. My card broke, so I sent it in (on my own cost), but it got lost in the mail, so all money that was still on it was lost. Had to pay for the fee of getting a new card.

…in other news, I am now radicalized

The only cloud gaming I will accept

Everybody would rightfully shit themselves 😳

TETSUO!!!

As you should be able to.

For me it’s become all about convenience. Is Ctrl-Alt-T preconfigured to open a terminal? Can I move it around with Super-[arrows]? Are all the drivers and codecs I need in the standard repos? No (or little enough) bloatware? Then I’ve found a distro for me. I don’t care about anything else anymore.

c/aneurysmposting

Is that a vintage xkcd?

Let’s all use our HP office printers to print out guillotines and send them to their -head- office

The exact same words that came into my head upon reading this. What a coincidence.

This is fantastic

Maybe we’ll discover Gentoo is emitting as much CO2 as China

Maybe tricking those idiots shouldn’t be a crime.

I’m not trying to be a stick in the mud, or disrespectful to the culture of Vanuatu, but are discoveries like these really enough to “topple assumptions about mathematics” or “question their universality”?

I mean, of course lots of things that humans (or animals) do can be represented mathematically. Basket weaving, prowling for prey or whatnot. That does not mean they are practicing mathematics. To my understanding, practicing mathematics means, as one of its most central tenets, to recognize patterns and rules in whatever system, abstract them and use them in ways that are not necessarily bound to the original system.

E.g. counting sheep, realizing you can also use numbers without sheep, and count rows of coconuts and multiplying them by columns of coconuts so you get a total.

But primitive societies tend to use patterns just to reach a goal, like weave a basket or draw something and leave it at that, right?

If they had counted lunar cycles in their drawings and then counted the connections or crossings or whatever to deduce something new, like the timing of the next lunar eclipse, I would be impressed. (Hairbrained example, but you know what I mean)

But this… sure, it’s a nice and interesting cultural thing. But not mathematics. Right? Just counting sheep isn’t maths? Sure they’re discovering properties of their graphs, like these subcycles, but they don’t seem to be abstracting that knowledge.

Part of wikipedia’s definition of maths: "There is no general consensus among mathematicians about a common definition for their academic discipline.

Most mathematical activity involves the discovery of properties of abstract objects and the use of pure reason to prove them."

So is the discovery of these subcycles and other properties of the drawings enough to call it mathematics?

Yay. Hope this turns out great for him.

It’s just styropyro, he tried out a new mixture on his golfball cannon

No. Oh God, no. This isn’t right. On no level is this right.

Euuuuurope!!