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In math and (theoretical) physics alphabetical is the presumed norm.

So the solution to forced rebooting is to have to suffer through the ridiculous boot times for windows every day?

In one of my old jobs we had a couple thousand line shell script called something like prod_corrections_adhoc.ksh. It was used to jam through emergency fixes between code releases.

It still has ‘adhoc corrections’ from 2006

Why are we starting new coal mines anywhere?

Leaving academia was definitely one of the best choices I ever made for my (physical, mental and financial) health.

I don’t regret doing my PhD, but I definitely spent two years too many on the postdoc treadmill.

I definitely do not value having lifetime access to 99.999% of the media I consume enough to have to deal with hoarding physical copies.

Way too much citric acid

They were enemy combatants because they were within bombing radius of an enemy combatant. That was the American logic in Iraq and Afghanistan in order to print more humane-looking civilian casualty numbers

Imagining calling someone an NPC unironically.

Because Wagner is already there

Cost per gram is the only sensible measurement

… Or, you know, just adapt the recipe. Not simping for shrinkflation here, but it’s pretty dumb to buy more than you need just to exactly match a recipe for queso. Shit ain’t analytical chemistry

As an adult it is a mix of leg jiggling and rubbing my finger nails against my thumbs. As a child I used to tap out rhythms with my heels and toes, much to the chagrin of my teachers and classmates.

This post confuses me. Why would code be simpler than the math notation? Both involve symbolic abstraction of basically the same complexity