Uncle Iroh ☑️ @[email protected]

Happy New Year dudes.

Here's to another year of monkying around.

@placebo @nomebullyyou

Typical CV circa 2001:

* Can work in a team as well as on my own
* Worked on Y2K compliance (yes, I too helped save the world)
* Knows Microsoft Excel

Hire me!

@Justicar

Nice.

2024 was always going to be THE crazy election year of all election years.

Good riddance 2024, hello 2025!

@YoMomz

Brilliant.

@Justicar

Substitute "noticing" for "thinking" and that's where we all are now.

@RegalBeagle @houseoftolstoy

Awesome to hear.

@Justicar

I hear you. Totally disappointed with my tech colleagues. Even the Gen Z guys I know who lift and show small signs of being based have fucking pronouns in their Slack bio.

I hate it all.

@marlathetourist @Stahesh

Happy new year to you too buddy!

@Justicar @Tfmonkey

Malaysia's has a very interesting structure. It has 3 main ethnicities, native Malay, Indians & Chinese, each with their own religion & culture.

By law the state favors native Malays for everything - jobs, universities, politics, housing, loans, etc..

And they are 100% correct. They don't care if people call them undemocratic racists because they know that if they didn't do this, the Chinese would absolutely dominate them out of power.

Hence Singapore.

@Justicar

He is and always has been. He has always been clear about that.

@nomebullyyou

We are men of our time, and that time is a cynical one, "The Children of Winter" as some call it.

The purifying fire of action belongs to "The Children of Spring".

@shortstories

Still, here's something someone just posted under #math which is quite fun:

1³+2³+3³+4³+5³+6³+7³+8³+9³
=
2025
=
(1+2+3+4+5+6+7+8+9)²

It's called the Nichomachos' Identity

@shortstories

I'm sure I could work through it if I put the time in to understand beyond my wonky recollections, but it just doesn't hold the same interest for me as it used to.

You're better off searching for hashtag #math and getting into it with someone who has more passion for it than I do.

@RegalBeagle

There it is, all the proof necessary.

@shortstories

OK, sure you can deliberately choose to use a discontinuity as an example of an exception.

Your original question made it seem like you were asking about normal continuous functions, but you were setting up a gotcha the whole time. Boo!

@RodrickSage

In the end you have to ask yourself, in which universe would I be getting MORE screwed, under Harris or Trump?

Not getting screwed doesn't exist. You just get to choose which is worse.

@shortstories

But tbh, I concede I could be wrong. This is not my wheelhouse anymore.

@shortstories

To be more accurate I should have said it is equal to left and right IFF it is differentiable AT THAT POINT.

i.e. it must have equal left and right derivatives at that point, otherwise the symmetric derivative simply does not exist.

That function would lack a well-defined derivative (at that point).

@shortstories

Poorly worded. It is equal to left and right IFF differentiable.

@nomebullyyou

I'm looking with interest to see if RFK blows the lid on all the decades of fuckery we've been subjected to.