ijk64✅ @ijk64@m.futex.au

Not wanting to get into a debate of what the best derivative notation is, but this post makes some useful points that could be kept in mind when teaching calculus, especially the start of multivariable calculus

https://math.stackexchange.com/a/3270436/3835

Thirty years ago, I used the holidays to rewrite our in-house 3d tool from scratch, based on specs and design I worked on for a year. On January 2nd 1994, the first version of Blender was running!
I'm incredible proud, humbled and impressed of where it went. Happy 30th birthday :) #b3d

TIL: https://github.com/wireviz/WireViz Like GraphViz but for wires 😍

ME: We have a color named after you

SALMON: Really? Is it silvery-blue like my scales?

ME: No, uh …

SALMON: Wait why is it pink?

ME: …

SALMON: WHY IS IT PINK?!?

Also, at a higher level I continue to believe that DNS represents an unacceptably risky point of failure and we should all be switching to some system where resources are indexed by public key, looked up on something like a DHT

Following their mid-year roundup in July, @alphabettes just posted their new list of font releases from the second half of 2023:
https://www.alphabettes.org/second-half-of-2023-font-releases/

See also their continually updated spreadsheet of typefaces by women and non-binary type designers:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1hLtJFWUbdpWcV456mujaWWzwAhoH8hBGqZsCBCgNA1U/edit#gid=0

coincidentally the Roman Colosseum, completed in year 80 AD, has 80 archways & thus 80 columns around the outer perimeter
https://www.thecolosseum.org/facts

If Escher had a dog ...

Same Queen, same!

Wait.... WAIT
There is a passenger...
train...
ferry.
This absolutely blows my BC Ferries mind.
#BCPoli #Trains #Ferry #Italy #Sicily #Canada #CanPoli #Transportation #BCFerries
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0-s-8sS1v0

Ash eruption at Sicily's Etna volcano, taken yesterday (6 Dec).

Photo: Fernando Famiani

#volcanoes #geology #Sicily #Etna

Welcome annalee as #curl committer 1228: https://github.com/curl/curl/pull/12607

This is part of a larger project -- a Toronto guy found an LP of Alvin and the Chipmunks covering pop songs

The guy had an old record player that could play at 16 RPM

So he played them all

They're here: https://soundcloud.com/alvin-thechipmunkson16sp

The version of Tom Petty's "Refugee" will haunt your dreams

I wept with uncontrollable laughter for the first two minutes of "Jesse's Girl"

#Newcastle #beach NSW on #Christmas Eve, looking beautiful, moody and turbulent. Peace to all!

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At winter solstice, the shortest day of the year in the northern hemisphere, the sun shines down this 5,000 year old passage and hits the back wall. The Neolithic chambered mound lies about 500m off the Brittany coast, on the small island of Gavr'inis.

These beautifully carved stone slabs support a 17-tonne stone slab acting as the roof of the tomb. At the time of its construction, c. 3500 B.C., the island was still connected with the mainland, and is today only accessible by boat.