bryndos

Don’t worry about it , there’s no joke/meme here; this is just pointing out that mathematicians sometime use words, and often struggle to have a good sense of humour.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suspension_(topology)

Second time? That’s master level pengwinning if you ask me.

training dataset

Yes, probably just style then. Thinking about the context it has to be angled one way or another in sheet music just for clarity against the lines of the staff.

It’d be interesting to know whether it was used first in sheet music, or otherwise.

I don’t know if this is a new development to differentiate or just a style thing. But I think sharp in music is usually slanted up ♯. Rather than horizontal #.

C# in computers is just perverse.

“#!” was also used as shorthand for “crunchbang linux”.

Get the biggest one for emergency toilet paper.

arrested development https://youtu.be/zadJoBqPQVc?t=214

Drilliant!

Yep. I’m sure its fine in small competent teams with a workflow that they’re comfortable with.

But any large organisation I’ve worked in involves clueless middle managers and teams with some people who really should move on. Agile seems to make incompetence of managers less obvious, and makes them less accountable. Seems to remove control over both the workflow, cost base and the quality of product/service.

It also gives them this great universal technique for problem solving. “We found that Task X is not being done right” . OK we’ll write a job title “X doer”. Appoint person who doesn’t really know what X is, but neither does the interviewer. Make this person go to ‘stand ups’ and assign them some jiras. 3 months later, they wonder why X is still not being done and why their new hire left already.

The root cause for sure is incompetent management not the methods. But their project method seems to protect them and impair actual improvement.

I think I noticed it widespread in the mid 2010s. Maybe around the same time that DIY and various hobby/handicrafts became just “making”.

I still remember when I bought a tool off someone and was chatting about what i was going to do with it and they declared out of the blue: “I am a maker!”. I just had to end the conversation as quickly and politely as possible. I don’t know what the point of that statement was, but it made them sound a bit unhinged.

That said I’m sure the term coding was in use before, but more like a sub-activity that ‘computer programmers’ or ‘software engineers’ might do as part of their job. Maybe ‘coder’ and ‘coding’ became more popular with the spread of the term ‘agile’ into the bullshitting-consultant / middle-management cultures; I think that’s when some people started using that term as an excuse for skipping ‘design’ and ‘engineering’ parts of any complex project.

Maybe this is real, I’m no expert, but it does have a whiff of the photoshop to me.

If that is a 2013 nissan micra on the left it’d be smaller in all but height than what looks to be a 1990 ford escort.

Barter or non-monetary terms of trade would emerge. Probably, if your economy was large enough to involve lots of one off interactions with strangers then some commodity would become de-facto money.

You don’t really have to exist though. Any rw demagogue worth their salt can whip up a decent amount of fear of and anger towards imaginary freeloaders without any in reality.

Explains why they like to vote for christmas too.

Internet says in French they just generalise to say ‘bird’.

‘Straight as an arrow’ , or ‘as the arrow flies’, might be better though; pretty straight if there’s no wind.

I used to have a friend who pronounced “arrow” like “owl” so maybe go with that.

This also has me thinking about making a bee-line for something.

It’s shite being English. We’re the lowest of the low, The scum of the fucking Earth. The most wretched, miserable, servile, pathetic trash, that was shat into civilisation!

This one was quite widespread in UK TV, it was one of the first government films to use such shocking imagery and dark themes, 40mph vs 30mph. it’s probably a bit mild by today’s standards, but it was notorious at the time…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cEzLQJV_z8w

Nibblonians

Evolve Necrosis FTW. Gotta have corpse-to-living tx. The real problem with plague inc. is the motivation though the disease is likely dead one turn after humanity.

This is where we need a conspiracy theory that all complex life is just an intricate biological shell/animate castle-o-saurus, designed to protect and nourish a few self replicating acids, with defense mechanisms to try to kill any interlopers that seek to replicate faster without dissuading anything sexually compatible.