the poster is referring to the function f(z) = z^2 + 1

Watched a debate between Emily M. Bender and Sébastien Bubeck — an OpenAI researcher — from March. As usual, Dr. Bender fucking rules. Bubeck struck me as an idiot and kind of an ass.

It’s worth noting that, unlike a real function, a complex function that is differentiable in a neighborhood is infinitely differentiable in that neighborhood. An informal intuition behind this: in the reals, for a limit to exist, the left and right limit must agree. In C, the limit from every direction must agree. Thus, a limit existing in C is “stronger” than it existing in R.

Edit: wikipedia pages on holomorphism and analyticity (did I spell this right) are good

I use Mullvad Leta, which is basically a front-end for the Google (and Brave) API. It used to be exclusive to Mullvad customers but I believe it’s available to everyone now.

It doesn’t support image search, but so far this has been consistently good enough for me.

Appreciate both responses. Thank you.

Before today I didn’t know the difference between a compositor and desktop environment and I thought Wayland was fine. Now Abra and I are very close.

I guess there’s sway? none of these options entice me to be honest

I used to use Sway. I found it tedious to configure several different things via config files. Kanshi in case you plug in a monitor, Waybar, Swaylock^[1], etc. And, I may be misremembering, but you had to edit the Sway config to launch these programs at startup. There was just friction everywhere.

I have been daily-driving COSMIC for about six months and it works pretty well, although there are infrequent crashes (less so since the beta release, I think). I like it as my tiling WM, but also occasional crashes don’t affect my workflow too badly.

Wayland protocols are an almost ideal way to create intentional incompatibilities and network effects.

Would you be willing to elaborate or follow up on this? I checked out the core protocol but think I’m way too out of my depth to relate it to what you wrote.

What’s unintuitive about creating text files config.yaml and input.toml in $DESKTOP_STANDARD_INCONSISTENTLY_FOLLOWED which hopefully resolves to /home/username/.config/ but probably resolves to /usr/bin/go_fuck_yourself_with_1s_and_0s and then editing the text files according to confusingly documented syntax?

I hate when ATMOSPHERE^TM is used to justify shitty design decisions. Find a way to make it diegetic without making me navigate to fucking nexusmods 🤮

this bums me out so much

I bought it before I ever paused against the boss. I discovered this mechanic doing Vow of Rivals :(

after playing silksong and hades ii, i am now pretty confident that game devs sniff their farts more than any other artists

“the player can’t pause during the boss because he controls time” fuck offfffff

(hades ii is mostly excellent, though, and silksong is a diamond encased in dogshit — there is a wonderful game in there, if you can find it)

Linux gaming has come a really long way. I use Bazzite^[1] on a Steam Deck and it’s great.

The only real remaining hurdle, I think, is that some companies insist on anti-cheat software without Linux support. Mostly because they’re too lazy to implement it server-side, I am guessing. This is why you can’t play Fortnite (that one with the dancing and the bullets) on Linux.

guess it’s finally time to rewrite calibre

i’m thinking cobol as a big misanthropic fuck you to humanity

and i’ll call the rewrite coblibre and it’ll include allusions everywhere to tyrion killing tywin, fuck it

why in the fuck does calibre’s source code have an ai folder?

https://github.com/kovidgoyal/calibre/tree/master/src/calibre/ai

at the very least call it “llm” or something. does this folder contain A* as a subroutine? or how about a chess engine? someone needs to develop a pill that cures misanthropy because for some reason this specifically broke me.

i read that there was one based on a mexican-slur, but i couldn’t think of it

spent weeks trying to rhyme “wet” with something, couldn’t come up with it, damn i guess i’m not a poet at least i know it

“wire” — fuck me that is so lazy

maybe this just betrays that i don’t know shit about fuck, but it feels like this xkcd would make more sense if the frequentist did the experiment more than once

sorry my friend, that is really brutal. wishing you the best. ❤

imo academia in the us selects for self-serious mini-tyrants. people unable to sleaze their way to an equivalent position in the job market, so they go with a position where their subordinates have no agency or recourse for inappropriate behavior and are entirely dependent on them for their funding and their career progress^[1]. the university system here seems to only care if a professor brings in grant money — if so, they can do whatever they want.

e.g. a year ago a student of mine with a documented, legally required accommodation was just straight denied it by a professor in my department. this poor student had to go through some equal opportunity claim just to have his accommodation met, and the professor is still there, having suffered no consequences.

maybe i should apply to a phd program outside of the us. i speak spanish (but slowly, y como un gringo) 🤷

😭

university where the professor physically threatened me and plagiarized my work called to ask if i was willing to teach a notoriously hard computer science class (that i have taught before to stellar evals as a phd student^[1]). but they had to tell me that i was their last choice because they couldn’t find a full professor to teach it (since i didn’t finish my phd there because of said abusive professor). on top of that, they offered me a measly $6,000 usd for the entire semester with no benefits, and i would have to pay $500 for parking.

should i just be done with academia? enrollment deadlines for the spring are approaching and i’m wondering if i should just find a “regular job”, rather than finishing a PhD elsewhere, especially given the direction higher ed is going in the us.

this is going to take up the rest of my evening, now i’m reading about the Pólya conjecture for the first time

this rules 💗