niplav @niplav@schelling.pt

@why @georgia >living to 130

That's not very much at all, outliving the universe is the goal

Pleased to announce the newest Mastodon feature on woof.group: antitemporal quote toots. Simply write a new toot and click the retrocausal boost 🔃 button below the text field, then select any existing toot from your feed. That existing toot will be altered to embed your new toot, as if it had been quoting you all along.

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Where Are Your Bottlenecks?
Maximum PC - January 2000
https://books.google.com/books?id=zwEAAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PT2&pg=PT25#v=twopage&q&f=false

Silence does not speak. Nature does not speak. Even God is silent, except perhaps in the voice that humans find in themselves in the presence of God's silence.

People will argue against this. They will insist that silence bears meaning, and they will tell you what it means. People will say that nature speaks constantly in terms perfectly compatible with contemporary conversations. People will even say that their words are the words of God.
They are all liars and you do not have to respect them

I love imagining the mathematical needs of whoever decided on the unicode math characters.

"Gosh, I'm just always needing notation for when two lines are sorta-but-not-completely perpendicular. I know! ⫡"

"What if something's not just bigger than or much bigger than but WAY FUCKING BIGGER THAN? Aha: ⫸"

"I'm doing so many specialized contour integrals and hate writing with words so much that I'm going to invent a specific symbol for line integration with rectangular path around a pole: ⨒"

"I don't know whether A is a subset of B or B is a subset of A, but at least one of those statements is true, so... A ⫓ B."

"Gosh, I have this element S of the Picard group of a symmetric monoidal category and I want to tensor M with the tensor-inverse of S but don't want to create notation for the tensor inverse. As such, consider M⨸S."