proud recipient of the prestigious you tried award.
a sphere is a plane folded in on itself, and spheres have no (one-dimensional) holes. but spheres do have a two-dimensional hole, which is basically a way of saying they’re hollow.
a circle is a line folded in on itself, and circles have one (one-dimensional) hole.
edit: the claim that circles and straws are homotopic is basically a fancy way of saying: “if you place a straw upright on a table and flatten it by smashing your hand down on it, you will end up with a circle.”
thankfully we will soon stop tracking and reporting all this stuff so these sorts of problems should disappear really soon, just like covid did.
those are the carrot looking things that grow out of people’s hands right?
it’s in situations like this where i eat a few spoonfuls of peanut butter and then call it a day
it’s the opposite of Economy Plus
must have been a pretty scary halloween that year
you got me there
it’s possible for it to be a total ordering and yet for there to be no gayest person. for example, the open interval (0, 1) is totally ordered and yet has no minimum or maximum. (the maximum would be 1, but it’s not included in the interval by definition.)
looks like we’ve got 1078 years to figure out time travel
what if we finally get to the moon and there’s another ocean there waiting for us
should just be a matter of saying “AI can’t do this job because it can’t properly do any job”. could even make that your email signature.
you can tell this guy actually went to the moon because he’s smiling, unlike the guys at the apollo 11 press conference
i love my 60% keyboard. i rebound the caps lock key to be a modifier key that swaps the functions of several keys on the keyboard. i basically have two keyboards stacked on top of each other that i can switch between at will. e.g., when caps lock is held: the number keys turn into Fn keys, WASD turns into the arrow keys, and N, M, < turn into the volume down, mute, and volume up keys, respectively.
i also changed the rgb colors on the keyboard so this is all color coded in case i forget.
from a topological perspective, it’s pretty uncontroversial to say that the earth is indeed a hotdog.
Freedom is ethical — it minimizes coercion — and practical — it drives creativity, invention, and prosperity.
this is a very interesting sentence to find in a post that outlines the ways in which the opinion page will be losing some of its editorial freedom.
Despite polygraphs’ unreliability, DHS insists they are necessary for national security.
in keeping with tradition, “national security” continues to mean “because i say so”.
god it is going to take forever to rebuild the government, if we’re even given that opportunity. it’s going to be years of finding out just how terribly trump messed things up.
if the VPN ban doesn’t work then the only reasonable course of action would be to ban the internet entirely. it’s the only way the children can be truly safe.