Re:Bourbaki Dangerous Bend Symbol
by JadeNB on Friday December 29, 2023 @07:03PM
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Although Bourbaki was/were capable of being plenty pretentious, I think that it might seem less pretentious if read not as "from our lofty viewpoint, we can see that this is too tough for you," but rather as a very literal analogue of the road sign: "it's easy to get dangerous results if you traverse this territory without sufficient care."
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I was taking the piss 8) I will definitely be deploying this symbol in some of my documentation.
Given I'm an IT bod: it will be the ones pertaining to name resolution and ... time.
> I will definitely be deploying this symbol in some of my documentation.
+1. Also curious to see where it should be positioned on the page. The wiki page says it goes in the margin. I tried searching github for 'u2621' to find examples but couldn't spot any rendered examples yet (only code).
Check out the TeXBook, eg. page 14.
Yeah, other possible reads:
- "brace yourself, here be dragons"
- "til now it was a bit of a treadmill, but that's a part you probably don't want to fast read"
- "on the surface this may look innocuous but there are tricky subtleties that you may not want to overlook"