bonifartius 𒂼𒄄 @bonifartius@social.cleverlibre.org

Aurora borealis. At this time of day, at this time of the year in this part of Russia.
Mom couldn't believe it

Remember, remember…

why do we have garbage like dash/hls
just use matroska and http chunking you fucking donkeys

The great Scottish physicist and mathematician James Clerk Maxwell died #onthisday in 1879. He was only 48 years old.

Maxwell was responsible for the classical theory of electromagnetic radiation, which was the first theory to describe electricity, magnetism and light as different manifestations of the same phenomenon. Maxwell's equations for electromagnetism have been called the "second great unification in physics" [1] (where the first one had been realized by Isaac Newton).

A few of my notes on Maxwell's equations are here: https://davidmeyer.github.io/physics/maxwells_equations.pdf. The LaTeX source is here: https://www.overleaf.com/read/fdtbdjmvtryx. As always, questions/comments/corrections/* greatly appreciated.

#maxwell #maxwellsequations #electromagnetism #math #maths #physics

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[1] "Maxwell's grand unification", https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/123329

Can we approach a normal distribution with µ = 0 and σ = 1?

Please share so we get a pretty graph. ^^"

#Socialism sucks. 🤨

haha

@p @ledocool431 You knew you were in the company of a thinking man when their toilet was accompanied by one of these, freshly rotated with current issues

Everyone has the vague idea that cell phones made the world a dumber place, but the reasons why are usually vague. I know the reason: it's because cell phones have radically altered the bathroom.

It used to be possible to roll up a newspaper under your arm and take a one-hour shit in perfect silence. This is when people have their best ideas, the ideas that move all their other ideas forward: when you are doing one thing and that thing is nothing.

That's how it all went sideways, man. Your fuckin' phone buzzes. Is it your side hustle, or is someone spamming you to promote their side hustle? Someone's knocking at the door. Music starts playing: the woman said you were crazy for declaring the waterproof bluetooth shower speaker "an abomination before the Lord", but now she has clicked the wrong shit and some douchebags' fucking podcast about AI startups is stopping you from staring blankly at the wall in peace. An alert on the phone: overdraft fees triggered by microtransactions. The only thoughts you have had in that room for months are about which politicians to kill to bring back peaceful shits.

This is how we used to take dumps back in the day and it was FINE:
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