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christianp

@christianp@mathstodon.xyz

Mathematician, koala fan, mathstodon.xyz admin,
⅓ of https://aperiodical.com. He/him

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christianp, to random
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Microsoft Teams continues to reveal its true nature as a billion sprint goals in a trenchcoat:

When you attach an image to a post, it's saved at the top of the Sharepoint folder belonging to the channel. (So the "files" tab becomes a cluttered mess, but that's not what I'm cross about now)

As well as restrictions on valid filenames, filenames of attachments have to be unique.

So if you've attached drawing.png once before, and upload another drawing.png, Teams asks if you want to replace the original, or keep both. If you keep both, it adds (1) to the filename.

... unless there's already a "drawing (1).png", in which case it asks you AGAIN what you want to do.

Is there a Big Brain Cloud Services reason it can't automatically find the smallest number that works?

christianp, (edited ) to random
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I've been told it's the International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia, Aphobia and Transphobia.

If you're any of those: I ain't afraid of you! 😆

Keep on doing what you're doing.

Update: apparently aphobia is in, too. Not afraid of them, either. Suggestions for further things other people are being or doing that are none of my business are welcome.

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Me about a week ago: I wonder if I could use my diagramming tool to make an animation?

Me a week later: I've basically cloned manim

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The good thing about my name is that when the github issue tracker truncates it, it gives the right energy

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Someone in the @TMiP WhatsApp group told me about a TikTok game where you're shown a sequence of five numbers, and have to guess what order they go in.

I've made my own version of it: https://somethingorotherwhatever.com/number-order-game/

"Order those numbers! You'll be shown five numbers, between 100 and 999. Try to guess what order the numbers will go in, from smallest to biggest." I'm shown 995, 164, 706, 576 and 227, and place them in 5th, 1st, 4th, 3rd and 2nd positions. Then it says "You did it!"

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A minimalist JS/CSS/HTML slideshow framework: https://gvwilson.github.io/slides/ https://github.com/gvwilson/slides

christianp,
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@gvwilson I've been doing the same thing! I got fed up with reveal.js doing stuff I don't understand well enough to change.
Scroll-snap is great!

christianp, (edited ) to random
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Pals, what's the least egregious TV I can buy today, in the UK?
I want as little "smart" internet-connected nonsense as possible. Not bothered about 4k or massive size, but it should sound and look good.

That is, what's the Brother laser printer of TVs?

christianp,
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@glencoe thanks, but I don't think that brand exists here

christianp,
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@jepdee yes, I saw that too. I will investigate!

christianp,
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I'm in currys. The vast majority of TVs are bigger than 50".
How big are people's living rooms?!

I feel old

ProfKinyon, to random
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Creating slides for a half hour talk (25 minutes + 5 for questions). So 100 slides should do, right? 😁

christianp,
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@ProfKinyon

You gotta pump those up. Those are rookie numbers in this racket.

OscarCunningham, to math
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I have a question about the aperiodic spectre tile (or the hat/turtle).

I know that the proof of aperiodicity works by showing that the tiles must fit together in a hierarchical structure that eventually repeats itself at a larger scale. But the larger units aren't literally scaled copies of the spectre. I also know that there is some freedom as to how you draw the edges of the spectre.

Is there a way you can draw the edges that allows you to literally use spectres to cover a larger copy of themselves? If so, is this way of doing it unique?

christianp,
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@OscarCunningham I think probably not - there are two (or more?) different metatiles

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On 20th June, I'll be in Glasgow for the workshop "Towards improving the accessibility of the mathematical sciences for visually impaired people", talking about my work on Chirun (https://chirun.org.uk/)

If any mathstonauts will be in Glasgow that day, it'll be nice to meet you!

christianp,
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there's more info on the event in this somewhat-accessible PDF: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1cMfrmt76NfOoFklxbHEg2RM2PCtdcnrb/view

christianp,
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@julesh or, since I'm teetotal, type 2 diabetes

astronomerritt, to random
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Actually managed to have a successful pair-coding session today with a grad student.

I find pair-coding really difficult because I don't process linearly. My thought process sees a problem as a big tree: I hop about from branch to branch very quickly and get a good understanding of the whole tree that way. I can't stand back from the tree and see it all at once, then take it branch-by-branch sequentially.

This makes me very annoying to pair code with. But I managed to restrain myself today.

christianp,
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@astronomerritt that sounds like how I work

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Something I don't get about is that I'm typing my own password into a wireless access point controlled by another university.
Is it just inertia that has prevented it from moving to a web-based SSO process where I log in to my own university's website, and they pass a signed token on to the institution I'm connecting to eduroam from?

christianp,
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@cmdrSprocket not necessarily - most public WiFi works by showing you a login page on connection, blocking all other requests until you're authenticated

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@cmdrSprocket yes, so maybe the decision was made that the balance of risks makes the current method better?
I don't know how I would tell if someone was reading my password with the current method, but I can at least confirm a web-based login page is really from my institution. The number of opportunities for hijinks breaking the web-based version must be much higher, which I can sort of believe

christianp,
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@ColinTheMathmo I don't doubt that eduroam is competently designed. My question was trying to fill in a clear gap in my knowledge - how come this insecure-looking thing is secure?

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That moment when you enter a university campus and all bets about the path-connectedness of two places you can see are off

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Despite the efforts of my children and the Tyne and Wear Metro system (84% of trains on time last month!), I managed to catch the train to Durham I was aiming for, with three minutes to spare.

agvbergin, to random
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Why is no-one solving the buy a ready-made Corsi-Rosenthal box problem?

christianp,
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@agvbergin ikea started selling a cheap air filter. Do you want something ready-made but even cheaper than that?

christianp,
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@agvbergin ah, right. Yeah, I think people like making things themselves. There are certainly plenty of ready-made options

Scmbradley, to random
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Teaching The Boy to ride a bike. It's backbreaking work and I'm absolutely knackered but it's so rewarding to see him scoot about on his own.

christianp,
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@Scmbradley bend at the knees. Always. Not just most of the time: always.
I have a box of The Good Painkillers from when I didn't heed that advice

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