https://www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/ed-msg.html

Ed, the greatest WYGIWYG editor of all.

No, nobody else does. It’s just you.

The fuck is this question?

Coming soon: “Does anybody else hate it when they get a paper cut?”

Emacs is a pretty nice OS - all it’s lacking is a good text editor.

I guess I should take another look at evil-mode.

git config --global core.editor "ed"

if you don’t like using vim.

Yes, started using vi when I started using a Unix login at university. That was in about 1994 or so. When I started using Linux it was definitely vim.

I’ve tried using evil-mode and vim keybindings in other editors. I somehow keep coming back to vim, though.

Yeah, that tracks - I came back to Debian after a few years on Ubuntu, and even before I returned, I removed snap from my Ubuntu system.

I get that if you have the money, it’s stupid to finance a car purchase, but you can do that without slapping a bundle of banknotes onto their desk.

My landlord wanted me to pay the deposit in cash, and I said no, and did a bank transfer instead. If I get mugged on the way to his office, or discover after the transaction that he’s a scammer, that money is gone. And I don’t see any advantage to me to pay with physical money.

Of course, if I had gotten the money in cash because I’d been working off the books, or if I’d gotten it through some criminal activity, I’d have been very happy to have the opportunity to use the cash.

A friend of mine had a husband who did carpentry and got paid cash under the table, and so they bought all their groceries in cash, so that they didn’t have to declare the income. Not the way I’d like to live.

That’s not what this law is about. This is about banning the use of banknotes for large transactions.

It’s not about credit vs buying outright, it’s about banning the use of actual banknotes for large transactions. That’s a popular way to launder money and hide income for tax evasion.

Same with a 50 something walking into a car dealership with a briefcase full of cash. Or a 40 something buying a condo in Munich with cash. Something ain’t right here.

Water makes explosions worse.

I had put a bunch of dry ice into a Falcon tube (50 mL screw top plastic centrifuge tube) and suddenly realised that I wasn’t actually in the mood for a loud bang, so I chucked it into a perspex water bath. The bang was muted but the water spout hit the ceiling and the water bath failed, drenching my supervisor’s notes.

Dammit, I saw this post and thought “let me get that xkcd comic…” Oh well, one upvote for you :-)

I’ve recently migrated from ubuntu Noble to Debian Forky (testing) on my laptop, and I’m super happy with it. I install updates every time I shut down, and there’s almost always something to update, but everything’s humming along very nicely.

And despite your confidence, your answer is wrong. You’re talking about a 3-cube embedded in 4-space instead of a 4-cube, which is why you only see 6 faces, whereas a 4-cube (a tesseract) has 24 faces.

There’s no “constant 4th dimensional vector” here.

You’re overcomplicating it by treating the 4th dimension as time. In a tesseract puzzle, the 4th dimension is just another spatial direction. The ant simply walks across adjacent cubic cells on the hypersurface, much like walking across faces of an ordinary cube. The problem reduces to finding a path through the adjacency graph of the 8 cells.

*its

The ant is a mathematical metaphor - a point that can trace a path along any surface and can cross to another surface only by crossing an edge, but cannot leave the surface.

In mathematics, the 4th dimension isn’t in any way privileged, so the ant isn’t “traveling across the fourth dimension” as such, it’s tracing a path through all four dimensions, just like you’d trace a path through three dimensions.

Oh, interesting!