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Me: I like math because its answers are unambiguous and not up for debate. Two plus two is always four.

Finite fields: Oh really?



In what may be the first time in the history of the world that anyone has done this, I just managed to use super glue without getting any on my fingers.




meta: on CWs

I've stated before that I'm not the CW police and I'm not going to dictate how others should use them, but if you're looking for a general guideline on when you might consider using them, this seems a reasonable guide:


Time to trot out this old thing:


GHCup: Because #Haskell apparently needs a package manager for its various package management systems.


I'm an idiot.

I was trying to install #Haskell on a machine and thought the installer was taking a really long time. In my defense, the last line of text was:

Installation may take a while.

It sat at this stage for over an hour while I did other stuff, because I hadn't bothered to read the previous line:
Press ENTER to proceed or ctrl-c to abort.
in reply to Jonathan Lamothe

It's not you, it's bad design. The prompt should always be the final line of output.


I find that hlint is a great tool for pointing out where your code can be improved, but sometimes its suggestions are... interesting. Case in point, it just recommended changing
map (\(a, b) -> {- ...stuff... -}) $ zip as bs

to
zipWith (curry (\(a, b) -> {- ...stuff... -})) as bs

instead of
zipWith (\a b -> {- ...stuff... -}) as bs


*sitting at my desk*

Why is there no music in my headset?

Oh.

*restarts the aNONradio stream that I stopped when I stepped out for a moment, and goes back to doing other stuff*

*~60 seconds pass*

Wait, there's still no music.

*Selects the correct audio output device.*

Isn't ADHD fun?




Has anyone else been having troubles getting updates from @The Tor Project's #Debian repository? The signing key seems to be expired.

reshared this









Brief outage because the new server accidentally came disconnected from power.

Everything's back up. Anxiety levels returning to normal.




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