Finch

Ludwig Boltzmann, who spent much of his life studying statistical mechanics, died in 1906, by his own hand. Paul Ehrenfest, carrying on the work, died similarly in 1933. Now it is our turn to study statistical mechanics

  • States of Matter, by David L. Goodstein

physics quotes

One hundred idiots come up with one hundred idiotic plans and execute them. Ninety nine naturally fail. One of them succeeds through sheer luck and believes they are a genius. - paraphrased from Ian M. Banks

quotes

we judge ourselves based on our intentions and others based on their actions.

personal philosophy

elixir tips

some good testing tips in there.

elixir

“citrus pickled onions”: finely dice onions, put into container. add lemon juice. put in fridge overnight. preserves them so you can just pull out diced onions later to use.

cooking til

“roadman” is another slang term for “chav”

slang til uk

I’ve owned and recommended System76 hardware many times, but they named their OS “Pop!_OS” and absolutely insist that everyone write it exactly like that. I just can’t interpret that as anything other than “fuck you, users!” and I don’t understand how it could possibly be a good strategy to be so openly hostile to their own customers.

linux

1121

posting art here now.

art

In a move that should surprise precisely no one, I pre-ordered a Boss HM-2W reissue. I don’t need it. I have an original HM-2 already. Nevertheless.

guitar personal

Software Foundations

Looks like a nice series of texts on computer science, formal verfication, etc.

cs functional papers