Posts by pozorvlak@mathstodon.xyz
 (DIR) Post #B4XPNlqu7aWJkLmCSu by pozorvlak@mathstodon.xyz
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       RE: https://masto.ai/@bovine3dom/116272684109428704One of my niche opinions is that the Imperial unit system is a staggering triumph in the management of technical debt. Working steadily over centuries, generations of engineers and lawmakers took a system which had been established by the Romans for trading goods and had then splintered into literally thousands of incompatible dialects, and they simplified and regularised it to the point it could (just about) be used for space travel.Of course, it's also a great example of the limitations of that kind of gradual, iterative cleanup! Sometimes it's better to bite the bullet and do a ground-up rewrite.RT: https://masto.ai/users/bovine3dom/statuses/116272684109428704
       
 (DIR) Post #B4xxbrHBCX2TApuhzU by pozorvlak@mathstodon.xyz
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       @vwbusguy @Natasha_Jay the name "Easter" may derive from that of an Anglo-Saxon goddess, but we have almost no evidence for that - literally two lines in a history written by a medieval monk who had no first-hand knowledge of paganism. The festival (which in every non-Germanic European language is called some variant of "Pesach") is certainly not derived from Eostre's rites, if they even existed. See the series of posts starting at https://cavalorn.livejournal.com/502368.html(I enjoyed the comic, though!)
       
 (DIR) Post #B62z9LIxh3w9PKaoOe by pozorvlak@mathstodon.xyz
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       Cold leftover pizza, like I just ate, is the breakfast of champions.Unless it's mushroom pizza. Then it's the breakfast of champignons.