(top-left corner:) Hexensküche 1971

Riemann-Roch’scher Satz: der letzte Schrei: das Diagramm

[the chart and doodles]

ist kommutatif! [sic]

Um dieser Aussage über f: X→Y einen approximativen Sinn zu geben, musste ich nahezu zwei Stunden lang die Geduld der Zuhörer missbrauchen. Schwartz [sic] auf weiss [sic] (in Srpinger’s Lecture Notes) nimmt’s wohl an die 400, 500 Seiten.

Ein packendes Beispiel dafür, wie unser Wissens- und Entdeckungsdrang sich immer mehr in einem lebensentrückten logischen Delirium auslebt, während das Leben selbst auf tausendfache [not sure about that] Art zum Teufel geht – und mit endgültiger Vernichtung bedroht ist. Höchste Zeit, unsern Kurs zu ändern!

[illegible] 1971 Alexander Grothendieck

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I’m not sure if I can do the German idioms justice in English, but here’s an attempt at translating it:

Hell’s kitchen 1971

Riemann-Roch’s Theorem: the latest in-thing: The diagram

[the chart and doodles]

is commutative! In order to give any meaning to that statement about f: X→Y I had to abuse the audience’s patience for two hours. In written form (in Springer’s lecture notes) it takes about 400–500 pages.

A stunning example how our curiosity has taken to enjoying itself in a logical delirium, disconnected from reality [literally: life], while life itself is going to hell a thousand times over – and is on the brink of its final annihilation. It’s about time we changed course!

[illegible] 1971 Alexander Grothendieck

My cat has started using “vacuum” as a swear word

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/QyBhlvAAQDo

If this is to be believed, then animals can actually communicate quite complex thoughts.

Ribbed for your pleasure.

My point was: You don’t need to wait for it to buffer or even load. Once the page is there, the video is playable.

Hallelujah!

I’m fine with waiting 10 seconds at the beginning of a video. I wonder how much YouTube would save (by reducing bandwidth, smaller caches, choosing slower storage) if they didn’t have the goal to start the video virtually immediately.

This shouldn’t happen unless you also switched to a niche browser.

It’s probably way cheaper to add a speaker than an actual, physical bell. But I agree. My microwave dings and I’m fine with that.

All of the things you’d be polluting the sun with are already there.

This one:

Now get off my lawn!

The relevant passage for anyone interested in more than just the headline:

By contrast, Bennett and Brassard’s theory - known as BB84 - shows that any attempt to hack or copy their quantum encryption key changes the very behaviour of its elements, making replication impossible.

Further reading: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BB84

I used to get the single correct result just a few months back.

Just befriend a paramedic or a firefighter or some other of the sort that works next to a train line. You’ll hear that joke quite often and get used to it.

Was she also there after the time?

Can you tell me how any user ever finds out that you need to double click an icon on their desktop?

I completely agree with you on this. I hate that Windows doesn’t disclose what areas can be clicked anymore. It used to, back when computers where new. Nowadays if you wanted to show a new person how to use a computer, you’d have to very explicitly explain things that would’ve been obvious from the looks just 10 years ago. (Ok, maybe 15.)

What is a new Apple user supposed to do? Try all of the 30-ish gestures one can make on every side and every corner of every app? That’s just stupid.

Even if it did, how would any user ever find out about this obscure feature?

Unless the user is actively navigating, the header is dead weight. The header should hide on scrollDown and reveal on scrollUp. Let the content breathe.

This one I actually hate. Often I just want to scroll up a few pixels, either to satisfy a mild compulsion or to align the content so I can see most of it. This is completely ruined if the navbar pops back in. Leave it at the top of the page, where it belongs, not at the top of the viewport!

The gist: The internet has become incredibly centralized. Reticulum is a protocol (and supporting hardware and software) that aims at using any physical means of communicating (e.g. wifi, or any other wireless connection) data to build a communication network. Anonymous and encrypted by default.

Sounds more like you’re looking for reasons to hate on the article.