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L'économie russe va mal, et tant mieux
https://legrandcontinent.eu/fr/2025/03/24/economie-russe-pour-la-premiere-fois-en-2025-le-petro…

Heute vor 100 Jahren im Institut im Kolloquium der Mathematischen Gesellschaft #Göttingen:
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Berichte der Dozenten über ihre Vorlesungen im W.-S. 1924/25.
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aus "Jahresbericht der Deutschen Mathematiker-Vereinigung", 1926
#OTD1925

Rant about PHP
You know a technology is declining when the most basic questions about its most bizarre quirks are left completely unanswered for years.
#PHP is like that. Every day I have many of these questions. I look for them. No one asked them before, no one wrote about them before.
I'm baffled by the lack of curiosity and proactivity of its community.
I know it sounds like me piling up on people I don't know anything about, but I used to invest a lot of time programming in PHP. I went to conferences, I made some open source libraries for it, like a PHP kernel for Jupyter Notebooks, I even made a library to work with dataframes, tensors and matrices in PHP (although I lost this one because my laptop was stolen before I released... and I didn't had it in me to rewrite it again).
Then, the ones who I admired the most in that space, like Nikita Popov, started leaving it to work in more intellectually vibrant communities... and it shows.
I'm sure Nikita Popov would be much more gracious than me when talking about it. I can only speculate about his motivations, but at least I can tell you about mine: It was precisely about that same lack of curiosity and creativity that I mentioned before, it felt unbearably grey and sad.

I am knitting Earthly in Patons Linen (cotton, linen, viscose) and it’s my first time working with linen.
I was told, and everything I’m reading, and watching on YouTube emphasizes the importance of blocking my linen swatches. I hand washed in warm water with agitation, and am tumble drying now. After it’s dry, I’ll machine wash and dry the swatches like my son will when he’s living with the finished sweater. The swatches have become very soft, have grown a bit in length, but so far the width seems stable. Will see how second blocking goes. It’s going to be a very nice sweater if I can get the sizing right. Using the EZ PZ Gauge Ruler to measure, and the stitches were better defined after the first blocking.
Planning to make an XL (size 46” chest) depending on what happens with the swatches, since according to Google, yarn can be machine washed and tumbled dry, it may shrink up to 10%, (which would make the XL a 43.2” fit) BUT I had a bamboo ribbon yarn top shrink to child size in my washer (still sad about that, the pre wash size was perfect!) so I’m gun shy. RIP Coachella tank in Tahki Yarns Bali ribbon. I’d use that yarn again, but definitely wet block, and handwash (it got accidentally thrown into the washing machine)
#knitting #earthly #ErikaKnight #swatching

David Brooks: "What’s Happening Is Not Normal. America Needs an Uprising That Is Not Normal"
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It’s time for a comprehensive national civic uprising. It’s time for Americans in universities, law, business, nonprofits and the scientific community, and civil servants and beyond to form one coordinated mass movement. Trump is about power. The only way he’s going to be stopped is if he’s confronted by some movement that possesses rival power."
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Opinion | What’s Happening Is Not Normal. America Needs an Uprising That Is Not Normal.
It will take a concerted effort by every sector of our society to respond to Trumpism’s threat.

KÖNNT IHR ALLE ENDLICH MAL AUFHÖREN, SO ÜBER EURE MITMENSCHEN HERZUZIEHEN; ES NERVT BRUTAL, UND WIR HABEN IN WENIGEN TAGEN OSTERN, IHR MÖCHTEGERNCHRIST*INNEN
#CDU #CSU #KleineKoalition

Wie ich mein altes Fahrrad nicht nur optisch aufwertete.
Die Aufkleber gibt's hier: https://shop.vvn-bda.de/produkt-kategorie/afd-verbot-jetzt/
Heute ist bundesweiter Aktionstag:

Ich habe es doch getan
https://rausgerufen.de/ich-habe-es-doch-getan/
feat. @…

True story time, from about 8 years ago.
After work, I joined few co-workers for happy hour. I had 1 or 2 alcoholic drinks, then cut myself off and drank soda rest of the night, for many reasons including I wanted to be 100% sober to drive home.
One guy was rude, insisted I keep drinking, said I was ruining the fun.
Kids, be your own person. Be stubborn. Don't let someone pressure you into doing something you don't want to do. No means no.
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Die Nasen #Merz #Spahn predigen den #TrickleDown und wir schauen zu, oder was?!