When you have not thanked your chatbot of choice even once

No, cause it’s my work computer and I don’t give a fuck what IT does as long as I have a backup of my stuff

Elon likes it, you good

There is always a bigger penis

• Qui-Gon Jinn

Tbf, you could use portable / user installs (if everyone would actually do their apps right), you can (now) use a package manager and you can (sometimes…) get an official, verified version of an app through the store and even if not, installers are (usually…) signed these days (although criminals do apparently get signatures too…)… And then this all falls apart, because you need a random driver from a random website. Security 👉👉

Europeans who’s children go to school alone at 6 would be laughing their ass off if this wasn’t such outrageous bs

Jep, you got em, it’s all a conspiracy so they poison our mind with the evil tongues and make us corpo slaves with the help of Rust.

Well he’s Japanese, so between 0 and 31 I guess.

Funny how this reflects exactly my train of thought.

Oh god, what if that asshat runs for president next?

Oh, wait, isn’t he from Africa or something?

pew

Wait, doesn’t his buddy run the country, his party and the supreme court?

*panic intensifies*

I totally agree. I think maths should start with games in elementary and cover history and applications as soon as you enter middle school. (Keeping games of course, how is there no redstone in the maths curriculum?!)

And I know that my rambling won’t convince people to immediately shake off the system induced maths fatigue, but I’ll never stop encouraging people to give it a second chance :)

As others have mentioned, how much and what kind of math you need depends heavily on what you do. And while I wholeheartedly encourage you to do what you enjoy, be it with or without maths, I would like to offer another perspective: A loveletter to maths.

Math in general gets a lot easier and more fun the longer you do it and the more interest you can build. Often the people that teach math are extremely good at it, and maybe because of that they suck at explaining it. There is a lot to doing it right.

First of all, I think you need to build excitement. Math strives to describe the world! Math is the foundation of science, math is history, and many of the concepts and techniques arose out of necessity… Or sometimes spite! There are many funny stories or interesting people behind the formulars and concepts you encounter. Learning why the hell some math was even invented and how the guy or gal got the idea is 1000x more interesting than just getting an example for the application of it. It helps you remember stuff.

Then there are a dozen ways to explain every single concept and then some. You will find some much more intuitive than others and the sum of them will sharpen your understanding of them. Looking for different explanations for the same thing can be a great help. Did you know many things in maths where discovered multiple times? That happens a lot, because even brilliant mathematicians don’t properly understand each other, or even themselves.

Another thing you should do is to always develop your vocabulary for every domain/concept you encounter. People will throw around made-up words and symbols like no tomorrow. Often, there are simple concepts behind them, hence they are casually abstracted away. You need to understand the concept and then translate it into your own words and then draw a connection back to the made up stuff. Maths is a lot like programming. 1 + 1 is just a function, returning a result. So are integrals, formulas in vector algebra, and every single damn other thing in maths. Just follow the chain!

And finally, there are also some amazing insights hidden in maths. Gödel’s incompleteness theorems might send a chill down your spine once you grasp their implications. Computability and information theory will shape your view on the world and yourself.

I went from getting Ds to Bs to advanced theoretical CS courses and you can do it too. You don’t have to, but you can.

For a second I didn’t not get why you’d want to point out to not be affiliated with KDE so explicitly… Then I read the name again. I’m not seeing it anymore man. They have broken me…

You can stuff all the info into an object and use it this way, no problem. I just wanted to point out that this doesn’t have zero performance impact compared to what you currently have.

So (depending on how your OS caches files) you might not want to do this like twice in a lambda that you pass to an iterator over a huge slice or something.

I think pickle is what you want.

Keep in mind that this might have a huge performance impact if you do it all the time - it’s still IO even when it’s not parsing.

I would say if it serves a purpose, helps you to drive a point across, go ahead.

But don’t make any other slide a meme please.

I’d be much more exited for vertical tabs and tab groups. As much as I hate to say it, but IMO only Edge really go it right with their tab game

Let’s not kill our environment maybe?

Whoa, look at that wannabe shaman over there. What did the wind tell you, huh? That you need air to breathe and water to drink?

Your android is getting slower? Ingl, I never noticed something like this in the past ~14 years of android.

A notch worse than German - that’s actually impressive. German only distinguish between genders for (pro)nouns.

I mean, it’s on Phoronix to take this kinda out of context, but on Linus how he phrases things. You would think after years at the forefront of one of the most important FOSS projects, he’d know better.

So to add some missing context: We are talking 11 maintainers, it’s not like hundreds have been removed. Im addition, it seems like most of them are employed by russian companies, not private individuals. Their code on the other hand has not been removed.

What bothers me is that it’s unclear whether future pull-requests would be rejected as well, or whether this is a matter of association.

IMO it would have been nice if Linus focused on some details regarding this action in his response, or alternatively not responding at all. Even if all he can say is that currently he can’t comment on it, it’s definitely better than borderline xenophobic rambling and getting mad at supposed trolls, feeding trolls if anything.