Martin Jambon 🌍🌎🌏 @mjambon@qoto.org

@QOTO @paulg @marius workaround: create a post containing their username, then click on the username to show the profile without leaving qoto.org, and hit "Follow".

Dear @QOTO, I'm getting a "500" error when searching for these Mastodon users on other servers in an attempt to follow them:
- @paulg
- @marius
I use the advanced web interface (screenshot). I checked that the mas.to server doesn't block qoto.org according to https://mas.to/about.

@VoxofGod@mastodon.social @tbrunner @johncarlosbaez sorry, I deleted my response just as you replied to it. My remark is based on similar buildings in France , which have not been successful for housing purposes due to the lack of many nice things. I see this as bad city planning. I don't think it has much to do with the cultural issues you're citing (I'm sure they exist but I'm vastly ignorant about them).

@tbrunner @johncarlosbaez to me, it looks like a poor ghetto in the making but maybe it's an improvement. I'm unfamiliar with the topic.

@BenjaminHCCarr full text: https://archive.is/rYPRw

@freemo https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stack_(abstract_data_type) i.e. it's weird to call something else a stack.

@HipsterDM @ned another test: the percentage of urinals that are unflushed as you arrive in the men's room.

@freemo like for mushrooms, only the dry weight is reliable!

@freemo is this a freemason bootcamp thing? 😅

@lowqualityfacts #science

Yhsiop, March 2024.
You saw it first on Mastodon.

#art #artistonmastodon

@freemo yes, but not really considering that panels could easily be cut into shapes other than rectangles. Even ovals are relatively rare. Original shapes tend to be distracting and get reclassified into "wall art between painting and sculpture".

@freemo for practical reasons, I reluctantly settled on foot/inch-based formats for my paintings: 18:24 and 24:36 (inches:inches). It doubles the surface area but doesn't preserve the aspect ratio (3:4 vs. 2:3). It's not too bad because if I double the surface area again, I'm back to 36:48 = 3:4. So instead of being always 1/sqrt(2), it alternates between 3:4 and 2:3.

It matters to me when dividing a 4 ft by 8 ft plywood panel without wasting too much.

@freemo I knew about the height:width ratio being constant at sqrt(2) but didn't know about the surface area considerations.

I just found out by accident that the A0 paper format is designed to have a surface area of 1 m²! An A4 sheet is obtained by cutting an A0 sheet in half 4 times, giving a surface area of 1/16 m².

It came up while playing with formulas to price artworks based on their dimensions. I was using sqrt(height * width) to obtain the side length of the equivalent square and I was surprised to get a round number for sqrt(21 * 29.7).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paper_size
#paper #math #art

@johncarlosbaez
As a prefix, "meta-" can mean so many things, I'm not sure. Maybe it means "modified sequoia" as in "metamorphism" (geology)?
https://www.etymonline.com/word/meta-

@dpiponi

They say "I forgive but I don't forget" but it misses the main point of forgiving, which is to not be haunted by the memory of the incident.

I forgive to better forget.

#thoughts #psychology

@LouisIngenthron Congress lobbying is a US specificity and so far I've been happy with blaming it but it's not something I studied closely.