it probably predates that understanding which is only about 14 years old

Yeah, I had to check… Asterisx and Cleopatra had some dialog about how they weren’t slaves¹… Published in 1970.

I’m not sure knowledgeable people ever thought they were built by slaves.

1 - The author had some serious academic credentials.

Running the code again is fast and requires no thinking. Finding the problem is slow and requires a lot of thinking.

It’s worth looking under the light-post in case your keys somehow rolled there. Just not for long.

motivation for learning the skill

I mean motivation for why somebody cares about the idea at all, but I think that is less strict so yes. A hole in theory or something emerging from an activity are perfectly fine. But there has to be something there.

Peter Liljedahl

So… From the publications, looks like he uses problem solving, not “having students actually think about math”.

You want students think about what exactly if you don’t give them an application?

Anyway, thanks, I’m listing his work as evidence supporting my claim.

The fact that this is becoming the most known quote from that mission is amazing on several good and bad ways.

Apparently knowing people learn differently and that mathematicians are a tiny minority is neoliberal…

unless their sun was the same temperature as Sol and their planet the same size as earth

Most other animals see different colors than we do, and they live under a star of the same temperature as ours, and in a planet with the exact same atmospheric composition.

The image is literally about the kind of thing the aliens would have in common.

You can decide on a language from that, but you will have to write down the definition of every word too.

When I got to asking “WTF does naturality even means?”, I decided to reread your comment from the beginning…

The amount of words in it that almost nobody will know the meaning is amazing!

If you are talking about school curriculum, nearly the entire population will keep not learning it as long as it doesn’t have some practical application so people can understand WTF the teacher is talking about.

Yeah, that would make more sense. Some thin (probably dehydrated) bell pepper.

Are extensible records usable already?

Not that I would pick TS because of that, but the disdain is undeserved when it has some very useful features that Haskell has been trying to copy for years.

I think it’s zucchini.

No idea how zucchini on pizza tastes like either.

Email is older than the internet.

Anyway, no, you don’t need internet for the modern version we have today either. You only need it for a few moments.

I’m pretty sure the trees around here have non-zero volume.

I have bad news for you. Lots and lots of people decided to plant grain independently, most times for the booze.

It’s because the Sun is behind it.

All more proof that the Earth is a cylinder.

It’s a very popular joke. I have no idea how many people take it seriously, since those would probably not say they do.

I imagine most people that buy a candle like that do it for somebody else’s birthday to imply the other person is gay.

Last time I said “No! This is getting silly!” and decided to try all those language-server GUI text editors I lost a couple of weeks and decided to nuke my emacs config and make LSP actually work there instead.