Chris Martin
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well I think maybe we've volunteered to slaughter a dozen drakes for somebody
November 25, 2025 at 8:16 PM
well I think maybe we've volunteered to slaughter a dozen drakes for somebody
Cotton is good when you want evaporation, wool is good when you want insulation, and acrylic is good when you want flammability.
November 25, 2025 at 8:46 AM
Cotton is good when you want evaporation, wool is good when you want insulation, and acrylic is good when you want flammability.
I think it's really funny that the free little library outside the Mennonite church is full of anti-Amish propaganda pulp novels with titles like THE SHUNNING
November 25, 2025 at 7:22 AM
I think it's really funny that the free little library outside the Mennonite church is full of anti-Amish propaganda pulp novels with titles like THE SHUNNING
It's funny watching I, Robot (2004) now; the movie had to make a big deal several times about explaining that the robots receive OTA updates
November 25, 2025 at 3:20 AM
It's funny watching I, Robot (2004) now; the movie had to make a big deal several times about explaining that the robots receive OTA updates
I don't think anything that online young men regret having in the modern era is for disappearing opportunities. I think if Teddy Roosevelt were shipping off to Cuba today, nobody would sign up and a month later most of our sons would say "oh I forgot when that was happening and mom didn't remind me"
November 25, 2025 at 1:29 AM
I don't think anything that online young men regret having in the modern era is for disappearing opportunities. I think if Teddy Roosevelt were shipping off to Cuba today, nobody would sign up and a month later most of our sons would say "oh I forgot when that was happening and mom didn't remind me"
now that I know "avoid unnecessary animation" is a WCAG bullet point I love strict web accessibility rules
November 24, 2025 at 11:38 PM
now that I know "avoid unnecessary animation" is a WCAG bullet point I love strict web accessibility rules
I guess I sort of think of optimism and pessimism like, imagine a computer program searching for a solution to a computationally hard problem like, idk, let's say it's a bin packing thing and you would like to output either an arrangement that fits or a proof that the things don't fit.
November 24, 2025 at 8:27 PM
I guess I sort of think of optimism and pessimism like, imagine a computer program searching for a solution to a computationally hard problem like, idk, let's say it's a bin packing thing and you would like to output either an arrangement that fits or a proof that the things don't fit.
IMO if you're going to computer a lot get a keyboard with long key travel distance sooner than later, when you're young you can't feel what hitting those laptop keyboards all day is doing to your hands
November 24, 2025 at 6:18 PM
IMO if you're going to computer a lot get a keyboard with long key travel distance sooner than later, when you're young you can't feel what hitting those laptop keyboards all day is doing to your hands
One thing that's nice about crochet is that it still defies automation. Anything you find is pretty definitely handmade
November 24, 2025 at 6:51 AM
One thing that's nice about crochet is that it still defies automation. Anything you find is pretty definitely handmade
surely sir tim et all never imagined that after this system of defining and transferring documents was established somebody would say "so like, this huge application that my company sells: that's an example of a document, right?"
November 24, 2025 at 6:11 AM
surely sir tim et all never imagined that after this system of defining and transferring documents was established somebody would say "so like, this huge application that my company sells: that's an example of a document, right?"
Crochet pattern authors will often go to great lengths to avoid repetition, whereas I as an older programmer see no shame in the occasional loop unrolling for reasons
November 24, 2025 at 4:29 AM
Crochet pattern authors will often go to great lengths to avoid repetition, whereas I as an older programmer see no shame in the occasional loop unrolling for reasons
It's funny stamped metal kind of reads as cheap now even through you can tell this stuff holds up really well
November 24, 2025 at 4:11 AM
It's funny stamped metal kind of reads as cheap now even through you can tell this stuff holds up really well
You can go along with a lot of mathematics when your goal is just to prove that you're smart enough to follow along and get a grade. When it comes time to explain it to your kids, though, you feel a new obligation to care about how much of it matters or is just bullshit
November 23, 2025 at 9:06 PM
You can go along with a lot of mathematics when your goal is just to prove that you're smart enough to follow along and get a grade. When it comes time to explain it to your kids, though, you feel a new obligation to care about how much of it matters or is just bullshit
Isn't it sort of funny that a bit after working out that the surface of earth that locally appears to be a flat two dimensional vector space actually has curvature, we then worked out that what appears locally to be three dimensional space *also* on larger scale has curvature?
November 23, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Isn't it sort of funny that a bit after working out that the surface of earth that locally appears to be a flat two dimensional vector space actually has curvature, we then worked out that what appears locally to be three dimensional space *also* on larger scale has curvature?
> Simpson says it's not that crime is necessarily on the rise, but other underlying factors like jail overcrowding, staffing shortages, and drug-related crimes are contributing to the problem.
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Are you telling me that what we're perceiving as "crime" is actually merely an illusion created […]
what
Are you telling me that what we're perceiving as "crime" is actually merely an illusion created […]
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November 23, 2025 at 7:49 PM
> Simpson says it's not that crime is necessarily on the rise, but other underlying factors like jail overcrowding, staffing shortages, and drug-related crimes are contributing to the problem.
what
Are you telling me that what we're perceiving as "crime" is actually merely an illusion created […]
what
Are you telling me that what we're perceiving as "crime" is actually merely an illusion created […]
I might actually nominate GHC Generic or the template-haskell package for longest suicide note in history
November 23, 2025 at 6:51 PM
I might actually nominate GHC Generic or the template-haskell package for longest suicide note in history
If you look inside your fridge ice maker - All it does is pour water into an ice cube tray and then dump the frozen cubes out. So why is it that it can manage this task flawlessly, sight unseen, whereas a human with an ice tray is always struggling and banging the tray on something to get the […]
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November 23, 2025 at 6:09 PM
If you look inside your fridge ice maker - All it does is pour water into an ice cube tray and then dump the frozen cubes out. So why is it that it can manage this task flawlessly, sight unseen, whereas a human with an ice tray is always struggling and banging the tray on something to get the […]
That's numbers now, it's settled https://functional.cafe/@chris__martin/115600091345069292
Chris Martin (@chris__martin@functional.cafe)
@pozorvlak@mathstodon.xyz Okay let's say all the algebraics plus throw in operations for (e^), natural log, sine, and arcsine
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November 23, 2025 at 5:48 PM
That's numbers now, it's settled https://functional.cafe/@chris__martin/115600091345069292
It's nice to see a periodic reminder that you can be a billionaire and a grown-ass man and your emails are all still written like you are twelve years old
November 23, 2025 at 5:39 AM
It's nice to see a periodic reminder that you can be a billionaire and a grown-ass man and your emails are all still written like you are twelve years old
"Arithmetic expression of integers, e, pi, the square root of 2" seems to me like a pretty good practical definition of "number"
November 23, 2025 at 4:35 AM
"Arithmetic expression of integers, e, pi, the square root of 2" seems to me like a pretty good practical definition of "number"
It's really something to think about that George Miller was 40 when he made Beyond Thunderdome, and it would still be another thirty years until Fury Road
November 22, 2025 at 5:59 AM
It's really something to think about that George Miller was 40 when he made Beyond Thunderdome, and it would still be another thirty years until Fury Road
Peaky Blinders defines to me an era of gritty nihilistic tv after which Tarantino's work comes off in retrospect as strongly moral
November 22, 2025 at 1:09 AM
Peaky Blinders defines to me an era of gritty nihilistic tv after which Tarantino's work comes off in retrospect as strongly moral