Notices by Steve Canon (steve@discuss.systems), page 2

@ajsadauskas @mekkaokereke > If you're white, and you don't discuss race, then it's entirely possible for you to not even notice that you're in the company of a racist.

This right here!

Y’all. Slack is not a synchronous communication medium. Do not slack someone outside of work hours about an emergency and then be like “I tried to ask X, but couldn’t reach them.”

@inthehands @Taweret non-zero axes _and_ scaling both dimensions by the measured quantity. Amazing.

@mcc (the question was “why does a golf ball roll into the hole and then pop out again?”)

@mcc I don’t even need quantum effects for this. I was in a classical mechanics colloquium given in the math department once and got there when the speaker showed that the answer just pops out magically if you take the reference frame to be the point of contact of a sphere rolling inside a cylinder and analyze the system based on the Coriolis torque.

“Oh! I have to wash my shoes!”
“You have to wash your shoes?”
“Because they’re all full of blood.”

Totally normal bedtime conversation.

@jrose There are dozens of us! Dozens!

@dalias at least in part, this is testament to our collective failure to make actual engineering accessible to normal people. I can believe that for a lot of people a usually-good-enough ML solution is easier, even though we know it’s profoundly stupid and wasteful.

@toddthomas @inthehands 340282366920938463444927863358058659840 new integers!

@toddthomas @inthehands I tried to get them to let me record "What's New in Integers" where I just read every new integer value, but there was some ticky-tack objection from product marketing about "heat death of the universe"

@inthehands "The successor function, or as we like to call it, 'One More Thing'."

@inthehands hmmm....

Another year, another WW with no “What’s New in Assembly” session. Sigh.

Just cleaned the windows, gee they’re shiny

Looking out:

TFW your property-valuation logic doesn't know about coastal erosion. #RealEstateShitposting

@thomasfuchs @Naranjadia humans can’t even do this reliably! (In the general case. Here it’s laughably easy.)

Unrelatedly, is it OK to see Stonehenge if you haven’t seen Carhenge yet, or should you visit the original first? … asking for a friend.

I’ll be in Oxford and London next month, let me know if anyone wants to say hi.

Seven-year old: “sometimes I wish I were a tiger because it’s scary to tell someone that you like them but tigers can just pee to let everyone know that they’re looking for a mate.”