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I Have seriously read about 1/3 of SICP. Seing this level of dedication and actual time required is very reassuring. I found many of the exercises to be be deep, deep rabbit holes where you eventually had to set a time limit for moving on if you have any ambition actually completing the book. The depth seems to increase for every chapter! You could probably spend a lot more time than 729 hours and it would still be both a productive use of time and well worth the investment knowledge-wise.

I understand music and mathematics were much more closely related historically, to some extent practically regarded as the same subject, but new discoveries about this relationship are still happening in our time. One interesting finding is that the the Pythagoeran comma, i.e. tiny interval between to enharmonically equivalent notes can be constructed geometrically: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00283-022-10260-4

In this case I praise the act relating to consumer purchases in Norway. I bought a butterfly MacBook Pro in January 2017. After numerous repairs and complaints to the reseller, I decided to make my case to the consumer council in January 2020, and boy did that resolve the problem: It took the reseller less than 24 hours to replace the old faulty MacBook with a new one with a post butterfly keyboard. I did spend some time going through the consumer law to make my case, and the resellers' poor customer relations and inability to resolve the issue ended up working in my favor. It's bonkers that this issue still isn't resolved for many people.

Every color in the palette exists in a 12-bit color space because each component can be stored in four bits, totaling 12 bits. As a result, each component can also be represented by one hexadecimal. It's nice to have a palette where the colors don't require 24 bits to be displayed correctly, and three hexadecimal digits are arguably easier to type out and remember than six.

Live free or die (from covid-19).

Some years ago, I came over a website that interactively demonstrated how a (software) 3D engine rendered rotating gears similar to glxgears in a step by step fashion. You could set the speed of the rendering process from a running animation to each and every triangle being rasterized, with depth testing and everything. I still try to look for the site, but it seems to have vanished from the internet.

> Also, big "ugh" to browser-based tooling.

Hear hear! A simple web-view inside a native application window is a huge improvement imho. If only JuptyerLab provided a simple interface to access menu elements as well, you could easily have a nearly complete native experience.

"Now I will have less distraction." - Leonard Euler upon losing his right eye vision

WARNING: Learning to exit Vim is the number one gateway drug to perpetual configuration of dotfiles and plugins. The truth is that you can never exit Vim. NEVER!

Another Norwegian here. If you don't find the matpakke boring enough, I am happy to tell you that we have an even more boring culinary tradition for breakfast, namely oatmeal. Preferably water boiled with a dab of butter. Crazy Norwegians might use milk instead of water, and sprinkle a teaspoon of sugar on top. On the weekend, it is allowed to use a little cinnamon as well, but only sparingly.

I seriously believed the article was about a pot smoking cook making instant meals.