Nils Fleischhacker

I'm so sorry you're all going to have to go through this. 😟

Note: this drop in attendance was attributed to two main factors.

(1) The impact of drastic cuts to science and research funding in the United States

(2) The fact that many non-US researchers don't feel safe visiting

The first sucks. The second disqualifies the US from ANY future consideration.

Maybe I should reconsider my career in cake decorating. 🤔

My physio: You should stop if something causes pain.
Also my physio: Does this hurt? Good, then we're hitting the right spot.

Captain Haddock looking very frazzled, saying, “What a week, huh?” Tintin leans into the frame and says, “Captain, it’s Wednesday.” Snowy aka Milou is very excited about the drink he has found. Viñeta de Tintin El capitán Haddock, sentado a una mesa y con aspecto de estar agotado, dice: "¡Menuda semana, ¿eh?". Tintín, a su derecha, le dice: "Capitán, es miércoles". A la izquierda, Milú mira muy contento la bebida que está en la mesa.

A depiction of significant air traffic squeezing through Azerbaijani air space to avoid Russia and Iran.

Azerbaijan could do something very funny right now.

Paperback books are called Taschenbuch in German. Literally "pocket book". I don't think my pockets are large enough.

This is just about perfect for my reading level in French!

Carl, the lesser known second cousin of Konrad Zuse?

Mündliche Prüfungen werden in der Regel von mindestens zwei Prüferinnen oder Prüfern bzw. einer Prüferin oder einem Prüfer in Gegenwart einer sachkundigen Beisitzerin oder eines Beisitzers abgenommen.

So if I'm reading these exam regulations correctly, only women need to be qualified to act as an observer. Men just need to exist.
Seems unintentionally on brand for academia I guess.

It's fine. The admin in question knows who they are and what they did.

It is really impressive how shitty the "search" functionality in essentially all Google products is, considering that that used to their entire selling point.

Search in the Gmail app just doesn't do anything, but also doesn't tell you that.
Searching chrome history doesn't find anything ever.

Why not repeal the laws of thermodynamics? They've been holding us back for way too long!

It's 8:00am.

Honestly I'd prefer it without the pictures.

What is that when supposed to mean? People stop listening to music? People only listen to music for some non-fun purpose?

No need. The frigate Brandenburg already exists. 🤷‍♂️

Whoever came up with the idea that phones should blink their camera flag as a form of notification should be forced to look directly into bright flashing LEDs for the rest of their life.

I am co-organising (with @drl3c7er.bsky.social and Lucjan Hanzlik) a workshop on Privacy-Enhancing Cryptography in Rome on May 10 as an affiliated event to IACR Eurocrypt. Submit your best PEC-work (3-page extended abstract) for presentation by February 25th: privcryptworkshop.github.io

Wtf is this and how is this the recommended way to install... well... anything really.

I still don't quite understand what conda is supposed to *be*, but apparently using it to install sagemath involves downloading completely separate versions of perl, python, and open-jdk among a full GB of other crap. All of which definitely already exist on my system.

I don't see any option besides building from sources. (Which is not overly likely to succeed if I'm being honest.) I thought we were past this kind of bullshit.

Me, the naive dipshit: I'll just install sagemath real quick to check something.
Wise Maintainers: Oh yeah, no there is no sagemath Ubuntu package anymore.
M: Huh...
W: But you can install it via "conda"! Much better.
M: So there's an Ubuntu package for conda?
W: [manic laughter]

That would make slightly more sense. (I maintain that that's not supported by the wording.) It still assumes that papers are rejected for actual problems and not because there's not enough room and the reviewers were slightly less enthusiastic than those for the other 20 perfectly fine papers.

I'm sorry, but what? People want authors to be blocked from submitting because they had a paper rejected? That's insane.

Public transit's on strike, so I couldn't get to the office. BUT, that meant I was much closer to school when they called that I should pick up my sick kid. So... Yay for public transit strike?

I guess it's not imposter syndrome if everyone apparently agrees. 🤔

I guess I'm doing this wrong.

Them's fighting words.

\[ f(\vec{u},x,i) := \vec{v} \qquad v_j := \begin{cases}u_j & j\neq i\\ m & j=i \end{cases} \]

Imagine you have the following function and want to give it a good name that tells the reader what it does. What would that name be?
So far the super serious contenders are "🌱" because we're planting m at position i, or "💉" because m is being injected at position i.