No dark mode for SSMS?
SQL Shades to the rescue!
Free version adds plain dark mode to the IDE (fine by me.) Paid version supports additional themes.
This solution is cleaner than the rather hacky approach of modifying ssms.pkgundef to restore a half-finished dark theme commented out by SSMS developers apparently at the last moment.
"Finally, a real dark mode for SQL Server Management Studio!"
Unlikely Kindred Spirits: Kripke, Heaney, and Elizabeth I: A Linguistic and Philosophical Analysis
At first glance, the analytic philosophy of Saul Kripke, the dramatic poetry of Seamus Heaney, and the political statecraft of Queen Elizabeth I could not seem more disparate. What could a 20th-century logician, a Nobel Prize-winning Irish poet, and a 16th-century monarch possibly share? Yet, beneath the surface, each grappled with language, identity, and authority in…
We've been studying the cognitive science of *diagrams*, and have recently put out a new (very) lightweight programming language and tool for diagramming models in formal methods. Check it out here!
https://blog.brownplt.org/2025/06/09/copeanddrag.html
The Institute of Geophysics and Extraterrestrial Physics of the Technische Universität Braunschweig is looking to fill a researcher position (salary group 13 TV-L 100%) in asteroid science as part of J. Agarwal’s research group, starting from the earliest possible date for a period of 3 years. Review of applications will begin on June 16, 2025, and continue until the position is filled.
Mistä on peräisin Suomessa usein kuultu omituinen käsitys/ennakkoluulo että erityisesti protestantit olisivat kunnollista, ahkeraa, jne väkeä?
Katsokaa nyt vaikkapa Itävaltaa, perinteisesti erittäin katolinen maa, jossa useat asiat ovat hyvin kunnollisesti järjestettyjä, melkein Sveitsin luokkaa. Itse pidän tärkeänä joukkoliikennettä. Myös Sveitsissä katolisia on enemmän, 30%, protestantteja 20%.
(On Itävallassa ikäviäkin puolia, kuten puolueettomuus perustuslaissa ja äärioikeist…
Time For 9 o'clock #HashTagGames hosted by @…
I didn't see that coming. Let's play!
#ShowCharactersSurpriseRevelation
Gerade laufen die Nebula-Award-Ceremonies. Aktuell spricht die diesjährige SFWA Grandmaster Nicola Griffith: https://nebulas.sfwa.org/grand-masters/nicola-griffith/
Sonnet 127 - CXXVII
In the old age black was not counted fair,
Or if it were, it bore not beauty's name;
But now is black beauty's successive heir,
And beauty slandered with a bastard shame:
For since each hand hath put on Nature's power,
Fairing the foul with Art's false borrowed face,
Sweet beauty hath no name, no holy bower,
But is profaned, if not lives in disgrace.
Therefore my mistress' eyes are raven black,
This https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.05047 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_…