christian
I've heard good things about Evans, but I can't vouch for that myself and the book is massive.
That is one of the worst math books out there and I will never understand the fanfare it gets. Rudin barely makes any effort to motivate concepts and totally obfuscates the proofwriting process in the name of elegance, while discussing a subject which is the most accessible entry point into serious math. The people who have enough experience to absorb all of the details are almost guaranteed to be at a point where they'll get a lot more out of basically any topic that's not kiddie analysis. It's like showing kindergarteners how to add by first teaching them about monoids to lead into the natural numbers and people ooh and ahh over how this is the best exposition on adding numbers they've ever seen.
Don't want to overstate that though.
Yeah, I think I can literally spend a good hour or two configuring firefox on a new install. I don't doubt it's an easy process to automate but I can go years without needing a new linux install so I don't care enough to learn a better way, especially when I'm going to want to configure stuff that isn't firefox on a new install as well.
I am shocked that the uncyclopedia still exists.
The article they had on there for the holocaust was, inexplicably, the most clever mathematics humor I've ever seen. I just checked and it looks like they've done a good bit of work in ruining that article, but I looked through the edit history and found a good version of it: link
For those who don't have a math background, the author is inventing a mathematical concept called a "political field", which he's just using to refer to any specific topic in politics. In the real world a field is an algebraic gadget, but he's added a couple gags to allude to politics, such as renaming the additive and multiplicative identities to "undecided elements", which is pretty amusing when he's calling left and right inverses "left-wing" and "right-wing" instead. He's then giving his invention a topology so he can talk about "open" and "closed" issues. The main joke is that the holocaust is a political topic which invites comparisons from all other extreme tragedies (hence the analogy with the math concept of a colimit), which leads the loudest voices in politics to be eager to compare their pet issues (here other political fields) to the holocaust. The spiel about "the politicomathematicians Ralph Reed and Pat Robertson" spending years trying to construct a comparison from the holocaust to abelian torsion groups ("Ab-Torsion" suggesting abortion here) by talking about incompatibility with the axiom of choice is amazing, whether theorems are compatible with the axiom of choice is a real thing in mathematics but here he's playing on the real-life idea of being pro-choice.
10/10 article in the original edit, I'm disappointed with the awful stuff that's been added in since then to ruin it but actually somewhat surprised that the core of it is still somewhat intact. I'm really curious about the genesis of this article because I have no clue how the author could come up with this, it's brilliant.
Idiot here, on that point why is the second one needed? Does anyone ever pair "he" with something other than "him"?
You did a really good job articulating this, fantastic comment.
I've seen this emoji a bunch but don't know the origin.
I don't think all physical intimacy should be wiped from media. I don't think we should act like breasts should be shielded at all costs because it makes people feel awkward due to being raised in a society that makes breasts naughty.
I understand people being tired of shitty hollywood sex scenes, but I don't think its good enough reason to do a 180 and never see a stray nip in a movie ever again.
I'm confused about who you're arguing against, neither the headline nor the article give me the impression that anyone is suggesting that.
I can't speak from the trans experience, so it's possible problems were there that were invisible to me, but I thought that Lemmygrad (or communism.lemmy.ml initially) had a fantastic community three or four years ago and I actually preferred it to chapo.chat. The effortposts and friendly community did a lot to bring me further left. The site became horribly toxic overnight the second genzedong got banned from reddit. I ended up giving up on it about a month afterwards and haven't logged in since.
My personal opinion is that making everyone as uncomfortable as possible should start with you shitting your pants today and just walking around with it fermenting until Thanksgiving rolls around. I know I'd be uncomfortable if you walked into my thanksgiving like that.