John BS @johnabs@qoto.org

@freemo Oh it’s not my way, I’m just making a vaguely threatening predication with offers for future moral support should the need arise. In fact I hope you don’t rue this day…BUT YOU WILL

@freemo You’ll rue the day you posted this freemo, you’ll rue it eventually! Not because I’m gonna do anything about it, but you will! Just wait and see (and update me on why and if you need anything when it happens)!

@schappi Allow me to propose the following notation:
d^nk where n is the number of nested rolls and k is the type of dice rolled (and note the carat is meant to represent exponentiation but I can’t superscript). The downside is that it doesn’t work well with mixed dice, but repeated applications of rolls of the same die is easily captured, maybe adding a subscript would give more flexibility…

@freemo @cleverthis Basically, each change you make is logged as a micro-commit, and once you reach a state that you're happy with the current progress, you simply quash the micro commits into commits based on whatever best practices you prefer. In git, such a set of operations would be a nightmare, but jj uses first-class conflicts and a pseudo-theory-of-patches to make this the default way of interacting with your repo, and I have to say I much prefer it. And the fact that any valid jj repo is also a valid git repo means way less overhead in terms of integrating with your existing workflows.

Here's a the codebase and a few tutorial resources.

https://github.com/jj-vcs/jj

https://kubamartin.com/posts/introduction-to-the-jujutsu-vcs/

https://steveklabnik.github.io/jujutsu-tutorial/introduction/what-is-jj-and-why-should-i-care.html

Additionally, there are some Emacs extensions and CLI tools that exist. If you're interested, I'll link you :)

@cleverthis @freemo I would heavily recommend looking into git-compatible tools like jujutsu that let you tinker first and commit later without all the mental overhead required to pre-plan your commits in advance. Sometimes as you go down the rabbit hole when fixing an issue or adding a feature, the easiest thing to do is finish and worry about organization afterwards and tools like jujutsu, (and pijul/DARCS) give you more flexibility than hit in this regards (and it’s easier to keep track of and keep a clean history IMO).

@lina Sorry to hear this. I hope things get better for you soon!

While working on my dissertation I found a neat (probably new?) way to sample from the probability k-simplex. I've already drafted a short paper on it; maybe it can go on the Ar-xiv which would be great, and I can polish it up later after I wrap up my preliminary exam.

It looks like the hardest part of my candidacy exam is going to be scheduling it. It feels like trying to get professors to agree on a 2hr block of time is like herding cats. Wish me luck everyone.

Shower theorems are the best theorems.

@barefootstache Perfect, glad I could contribute a bit :3

@barefootstache Nah, the php CLI version is way better than the python version. (In fact, python is a bad language, and you should use a better one )

In fact, if you have poppler installed, you likely already have pdftotext installed as well.

@barefootstache pdftotext allows image extraction apparently :3

https://github.com/pmdunggh/pdftotext

@barefootstache Have you tried using pdftotext with layout mode and some regex? That worked for me with a 600 page database schema :)

@vicgrinberg I break them in half with my hands, stuff both halves directly into my mouth, and repeat this until I can barely close my jaw. Then I enjoy the megacrunch followed by the flood of chocolate and dopamine like an animal

(But really, I just bite them, or occasionally dunk them in milk or sweetish beverages)

@ElenLeFoll So what you're saying is that if I give my advisor popcorn this will help with getting feedback...got it

I'm officially down 66.4 lbs, with another 24.6 to go!

I decided that around 185 ish will probably be a good stopping point, then I can bulk a bit if I need to. I'm 6'2 and a bit, and I don't want to be scrawny but I want to get by body-fat percentage to around 15% before I start bulking and recomping if I decide to.

Also, I should be doing my candidacy exam this semester and defending the next as I already have a professor in the UK who wants me to postdoc with him! Fingers crossed all goes well this year! :D

@freemo @kopimi $35, that's a whopping $1,283.98 in today's money.

@freemo @QasimRashid

On this one particular issue he is "better than *the* alternative", yes; however, the problem lies in the dyadic assumption that we are subscribing to when voting in general (which is what I was trying to address). I'm not saying you made a bad point, I think it's good to put these things into relative perspective. But the response at least seemed to be "look they only increased the spending a little compared to Biden" when Qasim's original point was that they aren't cutting waste despite promising to. An increase is the opposite of cutting.

Thus, it seemed like "that guy increases it a lot, but this guy only increased it a little," when the original point was that actual decreases should be made instead since that is one of the campaign promises that fails to be enacted each time the Republicans are in power.

So, fair enough perhaps this wasn't whataboutism per se, but it seemed to me to distract from the original point Qasim was making. Apologies for the misclassification :)