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Gombang@gombang@social.nancengka.com boosted:
@tao@mathstodon.xyz (2026-09-10 10:17:15)
"Toutes les grandes personnes ont d'abord été des enfants. (Mais peu d'entre elles s'en souviennent.)" [All grown-ups were once children... but only few of them remember it.] Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, "Le Petit Prince."
An impromptu game of "who can name the largest number?" is an example I often point to as a way in which young children teach each other about non-trivial mathematical ideas and facts, such as infinity and the concept of proof by contradiction (embodied in this case by one child eventually realizing that they can defeat any other child's guess by adding "plus one" to that guess, thus demonstrating by contradiction* that there is no largest natural number).
Prematurely putting such games to an end by immediately providing the nominal goal --- for instance, providing these children with a brief lecture on infinity and the unbounded nature of the natural numbers --- defeats the entire "purpose" of such curiosity-driven play, insofar as play *has* a purpose: to explore, to learn, to develop, and to simply have fun.
* - to be pedantic, this is a proof by negation rather than a proof by contradiction, but that distinction is not the point of the anecdote I wish to make. (1/3)
Terence Tao@tao@mathstodon.xyz (2026-09-10 10:17:15)
"Toutes les grandes personnes ont d'abord été des enfants. (Mais peu d'entre elles s'en souviennent.)" [All grown-ups were once children... but only few of them remember it.] Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, "Le Petit Prince."
An impromptu game of "who can name the largest number?" is an example I often point to as a way in which young children teach each other about non-trivial mathematical ideas and facts, such as infinity and the concept of proof by contradiction (embodied in this case by one child eventually realizing that they can defeat any other child's guess by adding "plus one" to that guess, thus demonstrating by contradiction* that there is no largest natural number).
Prematurely putting such games to an end by immediately providing the nominal goal --- for instance, providing these children with a brief lecture on infinity and the unbounded nature of the natural numbers --- defeats the entire "purpose" of such curiosity-driven play, insofar as play *has* a purpose: to explore, to learn, to develop, and to simply have fun.
* - to be pedantic, this is a proof by negation rather than a proof by contradiction, but that distinction is not the point of the anecdote I wish to make. (1/3)
Reply to @hannah@hai.z0ne.social
Sun Microdevil Pte Ltd@koakuma@uwu.social (2026-09-10 10:16:52)
@hannah Very powerful doctora...
Layar Laut@layarlaut@misskey.id (2026-09-10 10:11:38)
Timelapse (ignore the fact that it started with the cake already half done)
RE: https://misskey.id/notes/aqxrm55k14
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Amélia Liao 🍊@amy@types.pl (2026-09-10 10:11:04)
apple does not sell phones. they do not sell consumer electronics at all, actually. they sell some other shit and the consumer electronics are a proxy for whatever that is. i don't know what it is. but it took less than an hour between me saying "don't worry, within a day everyone's gonna start pretending they've always wanted a foldable phone" and every apple-purchasing estadunidense in the discord having turned up to pretend like they've always wanted a foldable phone
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Yukari Kirifuji :menherathunk: :MahiruSpin: :af_mariscat_meron_krkr: @yukari@fedinet.waltuh.cyou (2026-09-10 10:06:25)
@cell felt like “mie ayam” with beef cheese and egg, look tasty
totally wired cell@cell@outerheaven.club (2026-09-10 09:54:58)
breakfast, japan :cat_magnificent:
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Layar Laut@layarlaut@misskey.id boosted:
@cell@outerheaven.club (2026-09-10 08:31:12)
selamat pagi!!
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Gombang@gombang@social.nancengka.com boosted:
@Sarahp@mastodon.social (2026-09-10 09:00:27)
Automattic’s board forces CEO Matt Mullenweg into leave of absence https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/09/automattics-board-forces-ceo-matt-mullenweg-into-leave-of-absence/
Layar Laut@layarlaut@misskey.id boosted:
@stevestreza@indieweb.social (2026-09-10 06:39:37)
RE: https://mastodon.social/@nixCraft/117241250895962141
Ok, genuinely, tech journalists need to investigate why so much money is being laundered into Omarchy. A bunch of slopware from a white supremacist does not deserve $18 million when real Linux projects have gone unfunded for years. There has to be something else going on here.
Layar Laut@layarlaut@misskey.id boosted:
@stevestreza@indieweb.social (2026-09-10 08:55:55)
@synack @whack DHH is in his "all these migrants are taking over Europe" era and this pile of sloppy dotfiles is his project. And somehow he's convinced various CEOs to hand him $18.5 million for it, while other projects have been struggling for years. That money will definitely not be making it upstream. These people don't suddenly care about Linux. Something else is happening here.
Layar Laut@layarlaut@misskey.id boosted:
@layarlaut@misskey.id (2026-09-09 23:35:48)
Kugatsu Inui Matsuri - Day 9
HAPPY BIRTHDAY INUI
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#とこばくたん2026 #いぬいらすと #selayarkanvas
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Sarah Perez 💙@Sarahp@mastodon.social (2026-09-10 09:00:27)
Automattic’s board forces CEO Matt Mullenweg into leave of absence https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/09/automattics-board-forces-ceo-matt-mullenweg-into-leave-of-absence/
Steve Streza@stevestreza@indieweb.social (2026-09-10 08:55:55)
@synack @whack DHH is in his "all these migrants are taking over Europe" era and this pile of sloppy dotfiles is his project. And somehow he's convinced various CEOs to hand him $18.5 million for it, while other projects have been struggling for years. That money will definitely not be making it upstream. These people don't suddenly care about Linux. Something else is happening here.
Gombang@gombang@social.nancengka.com boosted:
@stevestreza@indieweb.social (2026-09-10 06:39:37)
RE: https://mastodon.social/@nixCraft/117241250895962141
Ok, genuinely, tech journalists need to investigate why so much money is being laundered into Omarchy. A bunch of slopware from a white supremacist does not deserve $18 million when real Linux projects have gone unfunded for years. There has to be something else going on here.
totally wired cell@cell@outerheaven.club boosted:
@dusk@nou.fai.st (2026-09-07 06:59:16)
Why is New Order so good :alunya_dance:
totally wired cell@cell@outerheaven.club boosted:
@gavi@bagel.ing (2026-09-10 08:07:40)
One thing about me is am unapologetically pro-furry. They are kind. They pay for art. They are big on consent. They are the backbone of the internet and most open source spaces. I fuck with furries.
Urei@LLENN08@hiradai.space boosted:
@hj@shigusegubu.club (2026-09-10 07:27:45)
it's no longer cirno day :Omori_Sad:
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Urei@LLENN08@hiradai.space boosted:
@gavi@bagel.ing (2026-09-10 08:07:40)
One thing about me is am unapologetically pro-furry. They are kind. They pay for art. They are big on consent. They are the backbone of the internet and most open source spaces. I fuck with furries.
Urei@LLENN08@hiradai.space boosted:
@tetekubo@misskey.io (2026-09-10 08:37:51)
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totally wired cell@cell@outerheaven.club boosted:
@yura@udongein.xyz (2026-08-27 14:12:34)
#artspam #meme
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arti@artifyber@bird.makeup (2026-09-10 08:40:57)
DAY 984 - Trip To Terra - Page 9 of 22
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totally wired cell@cell@outerheaven.club boosted:
@Mitsu@outerheaven.club (2026-09-10 06:33:28)
Me thinking about how I'm going to decorate our house for halloween and christmas
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ててろう@tetekubo@misskey.io (2026-09-10 08:37:51)
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totally wired cell@cell@outerheaven.club (2026-09-10 08:31:12)
selamat pagi!!
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Gombang@gombang@social.nancengka.com boosted:
@LinuxToday@techhub.social (2026-09-10 08:04:22)
Lotus Notes and the dangers of starting from scratch https://www.osnews.com/story/145936/lotus-notes-and-the-dangers-of-starting-from-scratch/
三遊亭:shuki_heart:楽２@coluck@misskey.io (2026-09-10 08:17:22)
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Baldur Bjarnason@baldur@toot.cafe (2026-09-10 08:11:31)
All this engineering and all this money and both tech and software just get less and less interesting by the day. All this energy; so little imagination.
gavi@gavi@bagel.ing (2026-09-10 08:07:40)
One thing about me is am unapologetically pro-furry. They are kind. They pay for art. They are big on consent. They are the backbone of the internet and most open source spaces. I fuck with furries.
LinuxToday.dev@LinuxToday@techhub.social (2026-09-10 08:04:22)
Lotus Notes and the dangers of starting from scratch https://www.osnews.com/story/145936/lotus-notes-and-the-dangers-of-starting-from-scratch/
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