mc ☕ @mc@qoto.org

@freemo
I don't know which is your definition of "friendly to people", but taking your example they also sometimes serve free tea while you wait at the souks. 😉

@freemo
Dubai is an Arabic country and they almost have no strays. Plus, having a pet is a pain.

Zotero
https://www.zotero.org/

Improved PDF retrieval with Unpaywall integration
https://www.zotero.org/blog/improved-pdf-retrieval-with-unpaywall-integration/

How to configure Zotero to retrieve Publication’s PDF from Sci-Hub automatically
https://gagarine.medium.com/use-sci-hub-with-zotero-as-a-fall-back-pdf-resolver-cf139eb2cea7

#Classical #music is for people who truly enjoy listening to music.

Va, pensiero (Chorus of the Hebrew Slaves) - Giuseppe Verdi: Nabucco - Kendlinger
https://youtu.be/XttF0vg0MGo

@jmw150 👍

@worldsendless
Achtung: CSS schertz!

@lydiaconwell
https://pics.me.me/arguing-with-a-woman-is-like-reading-the-software-license-39283482.png

" This disconnect between our Gaussian perception and the Pareto reality is not an obscure intellectual point, but instead carries serious practical consequences. Because of this error, our approach to most problems is, at best, suboptimal. Malcolm Gladwell, for example, has written about how the typical solutions meant to address homelessness — shelters and soup kitchens — have been ineffective because they’re based on the mistaken assumption that the majority of homeless people follow the average: average number of days without a roof, average cost per person to the public purse, or average reasons for being homeless. Yet on all these dimensions, homelessness follows a power law, too. In the words of Nobel laureate physicist Philip Anderson, we need to free ourselves from “average” thinking, or focusing on the mean, which, in most cases, is misleading. The joke that when Bill Gates walks into a bar, everyone in that bar becomes a millionaire on average, illustrates the point. Outliers and tails are dismissed as aberrations, when in fact they have the most impact — good and bad. A small viral event, for example, snowballs into a global coronavirus pandemic and economic disaster."

(It worthes reading up to here only)

https://hbr.org/2022/01/we-need-to-let-go-of-the-bell-curve

#kraftwerk - #Radioactivity (Original Version)
https://youtu.be/NyXeJZJUFHE

#music #electronic

@lydiaconwell
Really?

@Pat
I could have used Int128() , but what joke can you make with that?

(Sometimes I do, but I would never confess it of course.)

It seems that no one will come to restore this poor #programmer confidence in Julia. But I don't want you to think bad of Julia.
It happens that Julia is just very demanding and needs the big() function to make it work.

julia> big(2)^big(64)
18446744073709551616

See? (nerd joke warning!)

> For every one molecule of carbon monoxide exhaled, a molecule of the pigment found in red blood cells is also destroyed
> In microgravity, the human body loses about 10 percent of the liquid flowing through our blood vessels, as blood accumulates in our head and chest.
> The effects of anemia are only felt once you land, and must deal with gravity again.
#space #astronaut #anemia #blood

https://www.sciencealert.com/space-anemia-is-real-and-scientists-just-worked-out-why

My first big deception with Julia. 😢

julia> 2^62
4611686018427387904

julia> 2^63
-9223372036854775808

julia> 2^64
0

When using Python:

>>> 2**62
4611686018427387904
>>> 2**63
9223372036854775808
>>> 2**64
18446744073709551616

Now you see why the snake won.

#julia #julialang #math #calc

@TFG
Flask is a Python framework to create a GUI (Graphic User Interface)
requests.args.get() is a Python Flask function.
(I don't quite understand your last question but...)
Perhaps this will help you:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/41136136/what-is-the-difference-between-varchar-and-string-in-sqlalchemys-data-type

@Pat
http://thespiritscience.net/2015/06/15/nasa-discovers-planets-and-stars-give-off-music-this-is-what-it-sounds-like/

This is amazing!

Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) Creates Largest 3D Map of the Cosmos
https://newscenter.lbl.gov/2022/01/13/dark-energy-spectroscopic-instrument-desi-creates-largest-3d-map-of-the-cosmos/

@jmw150
Send it back to IT with a nice note saying that you're not able to use the computer because your work requires tweaking the UEFI/BIOS and *for some reason* you're not able to access it.
(It worked once for me. Avoid showing anger, but be as ironic as you wish - they will not understand, or they will pretend not to.) 😆

> It's a sad thing to be unrequitedly in love, I can tell you. The truth is that I love mathematics and mathematics is completely indifferent to me.
> Oh, I can handle the elementary aspects of math alright but as soon as subtle insights are required, she goes in search of someone else.

-- Asimov, Isaac, "Asimov on Numbers", Exclamation Point! (essay), 1965