Notices by DougMerritt (log😅 = 💧log😄) (dougmerritt@mathstodon.xyz), page 4

@evan @fbobraga @dotjayne
Note that up until now I was not arguing anything, just interpreting wikipedia.

But since you insist on being aggressive, no, I disagree. Many humans are *born* sociopaths, and that quite clearly assists the process of becoming very rich.

(There are exceptions; I'm not claiming a universal law or anything)

@fbobraga @evan @dotjayne
Unless I somehow overlooked something, the wikipedia article says (well, inescapably implies) that he is *not* a billionaire.

@ColinTheMathmo
Paging @christianp , please help Colin, he's locked himself out of the server...again.

That's, what, three times this week?

What do you mean, three times today?

P.S. I agree that web programming is annoying at best.

@nixCraft
That's wrong twice; first on pi's irrationality, and second that the digits ChatGPT is quoting rounds up the last digit.

The first few digits are 3.141592653589793 -- so GPT should have said 65358....

@goatsarah @ColinTheMathmo
P.S. I still have my Amiga 1000!

@goatsarah @ColinTheMathmo
Indeed, but to be fair, lots of people *have* actually thought about it, but have not been able to solve the multiple multifarious complexly knotted problems involved, and instead just have smaller bright ideas -- like those folders/drawers instead of DOS/Unix directories.

Those smaller bright ideas are pitched to us by enthusiasts (and by corporate advertising) as solutions to the issues, but of course they are not, even if focus groups on average react positively. It still doesn't mean that the central issues have been resolved.

Some percentage of people are enthusiastic or persistent and learn *whatever* the paradigm is, and some other percentage remain baffled.