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@angel @saraislet exactly!

Me: oh, we could buy an oscilloscope!
@saraislet : why would we need an oscilloscope?!?
Me: uhm, because it's an oscilloscope?!?

Unicode normalization.

Like, I've seen @mattblaze complain about there not being an involved Ocean's 11 style plot, but key detail: this happened in France. So obviously it would be more likely to be Lupin, and he loves stealing shit while everybody is watching.

Did anyone check on Assane Diop? I was under the impression that stealing diamonds in broad daylight out of the Louvre is something that is really only accomplished by the legendary Lupin.

Whenever I see "GenAI basically can do the work of a junior dev", I assume that those people are using junior devs very differently from me. To me, the value of a junior developer is maybe like 20% the code they write, and 80% is a down payment to a future where they no longer are a junior. I still haven't found an AI that could do that second part.

Criticizing Linux on Mastodon is really the best way to make men type paragraphs, isn't it?

It is just now that I realized that you could make the excellent cross-cultural pun that the triangle was pleading the fifth.

Triangle: I'm pleading the fifth, your honor!
Judge: your right to remain silent?
Triangle: no, your honor, I'm pleading that given a line and a point not on that line there is exactly one line through that point parallel to the given line!

Nota Bene: since this story took place in Germany, the math teacher in question was quite well paid and had a university level mathematics education to fall back to, which, from having taught that course myself later, should include a full class on geometry, teaching not just the Euclidean, but the Hilbert axiomatisation. He also taught the math extracurricular, so he was very much up to the challenge 🙂.
The triangle on the stand was still acquitted on account of being planar itself, so the story had a happy ending, and no triangles had to go to geometry jail.

Random childhood anecdote, posted as individual toot in order to not derail some random joke post about kids these days not being into non-Euclidean geometry:

I have three siblings, spaced two years apart each. All four of us went to the same high school. My youngest sister's math teacher wanted to do a cute little segment about triangles always having inner angles sum up to 180 degrees. It was supposed to take the form of a trial. My sister was assigned the role of prosecutor charging a triangle accused of having an inner angle sum different from 180 degrees. Obviously, taking her role very seriously, she consulted the Schmieg dinner table, and a plan was hatched, involving a grapefruit and a marker. The trial came, and just as the defense had produced what they thought was irrefutable proof that their client was innocent, my sister took out the grapefruit, drew a triangle connecting one pole to the equator using three right angles, and said "So how do you explain this?!?" Leading to the teacher/judge having to explain non-Euclidean geometry to a bunch of 10 year olds.

And to make this anecdote even better, in a different class the same day she had a substitute teacher who didn't know my sister, but seeing the triangled up grapefruit, approached her and asked her "Are you a Schmieg?". Our family name has racked up quite some reputation…