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One thing I like with pandoc is that it produces clean html or latex code (it can also produce clean markdown with the right option). If you compare this with the HTML produced by …

> Mathematicians are, indeed, also paid to teach, peer-review, go to conferences and learn mathematics, but all of that better result in some damn good theorems. As a mathematician…

Doesn't the quoted sentence indicate they did? How would they have known it has been updated since otherwise?

I agree that calling someone a bad person for using one of the most common test images is excessive. However, regarding this: > The subject of the photograph merely went along with…

Because I have personally never seen "jazzes" pluralised and I didn't think of it. Maths and math are both used, and the reason I used the plural form is not because I insist on an…

For me it's about having a distraction-free environment. I dislike having useless information cluttering my screen real-estate. Even now that I moved away from text-only, I typical…

Actually I think that maths and jazz have something in common in the general public peception that you have to be smart to "get it". Nobody will try to perform a deep intellectual …

There are slightly more women than men on Tristan de Cunha [0]. [0] https://www.tristandc.com/population.php

GP reported on an opinion and called it insane. That's not an ad hominem. There is a difference between judging an opinion and judging a person. If the response had been something …

> It doesn’t matter how blue you die your hair If your intention is honest engagement with people you disagree with, you should refrain from ad-hominem attacks like this. Work with…

That the credit for the theorem belongs to Cantor is not under question. This is acknolwedged in the article: >The revelation about Cantor’s result doesn’t undermine his legacy. He…

And maybe they will. We have gone from the industry clamouring that what's being done now is not possible and spending millions of lobbying money against it, to such laws spreading…

> Requiring ID is not entirely the right approach here I think It is in the sense that it entices the industry to come up with a better approach. Otherwise they'll just sit on thei…

It depends how you define "good writing", which is too often associated with "proper language", and by extension with proper breeding. It is a class marker. People have a distinct …

The comments suggest to recuse the judges from countries involved, or to remove the lowest or highest scores for each contestant. If you remove the scores given by the judges from …

Neat collection! Do you have advice on how to use those calculators with modern tooling? For example I remember there were cross-compilers for the hp48 [0], do you use any of that …

> The very fact people think they need to read (fiction) books released this year more than ones released before is baffling. Do they really? I was comparing rates of production vs…

> Can't they figure out what books to get without being told? Probably not? People are not "being told" what to read, they are given some opinionated advice which they can then dec…

This quote explains why the author thinks that it is a problem : > with string theorists now virtually unemployable unless they can figure out how to rebrand as machine learning ex…

> Distance education is a tiny percentage of higher education though. It is about a third of the students I teach, which amounts to several hundreds per term. It may be niche, but …

A limitation of written exams is in distance education, which simply was hardly a thing for the hundreds of years exams were used. Just like WFH is a new practice employers have to…

Being obnoxious works well. Obnoxious people get elected to power. Obnoxious companies (and CEOs) generate hype that increases stock prices. Obnoxious youtubers call themselves inf…

> a bit more time actually parenting Well, "blame the parents" is as hypocritical as "think of the children". It just displaces the responsibility of excluding kids from society fr…