So after I gave dad some advice to look on Google and gave him some keywords to look for, my mom came into his study. He openly wondered if paying my college tuition for me to get a bachelor's in mathematics was worth it.
He calmed down later and I was able to explain things, but still...jeesh. Talk about manipulativeness.
Apparently White Fragility is getting deservedly trashed: https://taibbi.substack.com/p/on-white-fragility
@mathlover Spreadsheets were the first big success story of the nascent software industry, way back in the late 1970's.
Visicalc was the first one, and made lots of money. Later a new upstart came in, and also was very successful -- Lotus 1-2-3.
Sometime down the road, Quatro Pro joined the fray, and seems to have been named in pure jest to Lotus's very successful program.
Excel came many years later, and it was a Windows application from the very beginning I think.
My first spreadsheets were in Lotus 123, and it was quite interesting. 😋
“Riches are not from an abundance of worldly good but from a contented mind.”
— Prophet Muhammad (ﷺ)
If you use Youtube, or Invidious often on desktop then I'd definitely recommend FreeTube (https://freetubeapp.io/) as an alternative client. Using invidious or a local API as an implementation it doesn't connect to Google APIs, so less risk of corporate data mining!
Spent some time today working on the toast feature for the Vue rewrite (https://github.com/FreeTubeApp/FreeTube-Vue). The current client is pretty great but the new version is shaping up to be better visually and functionally from the ground up.
Good ideas for why & how to share plane tilings to K-6 #math students.
https://youtu.be/4gdfs89hSxg
According to an investigation by earthsight, #IKEA is buying illegal wood supplies from Ukrainian mountains. The interesting part is that this wood is certified as sustainable by FSC and IKEA promotes it as eco-friendly.
Sadly, #FSC is not that trustworthy after all.
https://www.earthsight.org.uk/investigations/flatpacked-forests
Over 40% of Republicans think Bill Gates is going to implant tracking chips through Covid vaccine https://boingboing.net/2020/05/26/over-40-of-republicans-think.html #boingboing ##COVIDIOTS
What is it about Florida and people being batshit insane‽ How are so many #COVIDIOTS able to exist in one town meeting, and how are people so profoundy stupid as to believe that masks hinder oxygen intake‽
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hl6WYw6H-VM
Coca-Cola suspends social media advertising despite Facebook changes - BBC News https://www.bbc.com/news/business-53204072
"The Web We Have to Save
The rich, diverse, free web that I loved — and spent years in an Iranian jail for — is dying.
Why is nobody stopping it?"
https://medium.com/matter/the-web-we-have-to-save-2eb1fe15a426
Amazing art on the post header. See the FULL SIZE image here, lots of detail: https://miro.medium.com/max/2999/1*DLIqBteIIJchIhaiUfCFdQ.jpeg
Mathematics Ph.D. Likes hanging out with almost everyone regardless of political views or anything else.
Akkoma: @ML2