Vierkantor

Vierkantor, 9 months ago to random

i don't understand the Sunk Cost Fallacy but i have already spent so much time on trying to learn it, it makes no sense to give up now

Vierkantor, 11 months ago to random

Want to monetize your website? Sorry, Claude Monet died almost 100 years ago.

Vierkantor, 4 months ago to random

There is a curious story how Banach got his Ph.D. He was being forced to write a Ph.D. paper and take the examinations, as he very quickly obtained many important results, but he kept saying that he was not ready and perhaps he would invent something more interesting. At last the university authorities became nervous. Somebody wrote down Banach’s remarks on some problems, and this was accepted as an excellent Ph.D. dissertation. But an exam was also required. One day Banach was accosted in the corridor and asked to go to a Dean’s room, as “some people have come and they want to know some mathematical details, and you will certainly be able to answer their questions”. Banach willingly answered the questions, not realising that he was just being examined by a special commission that had come to Lvov for this purpose.

Krzysztof Ciesielski: On Stefan Banach and some of his results. Banach J. Math. Anal. 1 (2007), no. 1, 1–10.

Vierkantor, 10 months ago to random

"doing them a platonic solid"

Vierkantor, 3 months ago to random

i loved how in the Matrix the evil guy said "Tell me Mr. Anderson, what good is a phone call if 🔒 Unable to decrypt: The sender's device has not sent us the keys for this message"

Vierkantor, 1 month ago to random

falsehoods programmers believe: everyone can answer which state they live in.

Vierkantor, 7 months ago to random

The thing about being a mathematician is if you ever get sick of it all and make the decision to leave everything behind and herd goats in the mountains, your colleagues will still be like "This is a well-known technique by Grothendieck, I fail to see the novelty."

Vierkantor, 5 months ago to random

meanwhile, in an alternate timeline:

bron en verantwoording: https://taaldacht.nl/2023/08/05/engeland-maar-dan-nederlands/

Vierkantor, 4 months ago to random

i have submitted my claims to a conference and look what the peer review says:

Vierkantor, 11 months ago to random

i put the fediverse in the same social context as a neighbourhood barbecue on the street that has gotten slightly out of hand. now imagine the landlord of the apartment block around the corner proudly announces "while we cannot announce all the details, we are looking forward to inviting the whole country to your back yard, together with our new partner sodexo"

Vierkantor, 6 months ago to random

a phonecall is a very powerful weapon for making your problem someone else's

Vierkantor, 1 month ago to random

Vierkantor, 5 months ago to random

new conspiracy theory: Germany is fake and only Bielefeld exists

Vierkantor, 3 months ago to random

a lot of the Dutch railway system becomes understandable if you view it as a metro system that somehow has grown to include double decker trains

Vierkantor, 6 months ago to random

if it's a Protestant university, why won't they let me finish my PhD thesis by nailing it to their door?

Vierkantor, 5 months ago to random

feature request: i should be able to put a CW on a CW. i would use this only for annoyance and not for useful purposes.

Vierkantor, 1 month ago to random

amogstera

Vierkantor, 4 months ago to random

$ git annex --help<br></br>...<br></br>  calckey         calculate key for a file<br></br>  checkpresentkey check if key is present in remote<br></br>  contentlocation looks up content for a key<br></br>  diffdriver      git diff driver<br></br>  dropkey         drops annexed content for specified keys<br></br>  examinekey      prints information from a key<br></br>  filter-process  long running git filter process<br></br>  findref         lists files in a git ref (deprecated)<br></br>  fromkey         adds a file using a specific key<br></br>  lookupkey       looks up key used for file<br></br>  matchexpression checks if a preferred content expression matches<br></br>  post-receive    run by git post-receive hook<br></br>  pre-commit      run by git pre-commit hook<br></br>  proxy           safely bypass direct mode guard (deprecated)<br></br>  readpresentkey  read records of where key is present<br></br>  registerurl     registers an url for a key<br></br>  rekey           change keys used for files<br></br>  resolvemerge    resolve merge conflicts<br></br>  restage         estages unlocked files in the git index<br></br>  setkey          sets annexed content for a key<br></br>  setpresentkey   change records of where key is present<br></br>  smudge          git smudge filter<br></br>  transferkey     transfers a key from or to a remote<br></br>  transferkeys    transfers keys (deprecated)<br></br>  transferrer     transfers content<br></br>  unregisterurl   unregisters an url for a key<br></br>

ah so this is how they name Misskey forks!

Vierkantor, 4 months ago to random

i am proud to announce our open source alternate reality headset that you can configure and control yourself! The glasses can be endlessly wiped clean and the markers last for over three hours of intensive use. #FossVQ2024

Vierkantor, 2 months ago to random

a vampire hunter's manual: the Nosferatutorial

Vierkantor, 2 months ago to random

(in the middle of a zombie apocalypse)

ME: actually it's kind of funny that we're calling it a zombie apocalypse. you see, in Ancient Greek the word ἀποκάλυψις means a revelation, literally un-covering. that apocalypse means of "end of times" comes from the Book of Revelations of the Bible. in any case, my point is that i still have not seen a zombie gain any particular insight at any point of this apocalypse. so while i don't want to come across as a pedant, i'm probably going to call it the zombie eschaton. does that make sense to you?

THE ZOMBIE TRYING TO EAT ME: ghghgrhghsghr

Vierkantor, 1 month ago to random

"actually explodium conflagrate is a very safe material when used safely."

"could you give examples of safe usage guidelines?"

"well, for example don't use it near people's faces. keep it at least 100 metres away from anything fragile. don't put it on space ships."

"and were these guidelines followed?"

"not in this case, no."

"why not?"

"because the space ship exploded."

Vierkantor, 4 months ago to random

The cowards in government refuse to allow me to set up a sanctuary for those cute delivery robots where i will tame them and give them out as pets...

Vierkantor, 6 months ago to random

supervillain stroking a catgirl in their lap as they explain their evil plan