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Luckily, the set of 19th century heads-of-state who contributed to geometry is still non-empty, thanks to James Garfield: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garfiel...

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Garfield's proof of the Pythagorean theorem - Wikipedia

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aparker314159 @averypi.space · 3h

Ooh using your battery as a smoke bomb to obscure your opponent's visibility is a really clever idea

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aparker314159 @averypi.space · 27/09/2026

Or something isomorphic to it. Well, not quite isomorphic...

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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 23/09/2026

This is the Dragonfly spacecraft, ultimately destined for Titan, photographed in July during early construction at Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory. The mission PI, Zibi Turtle, shared this image at the OPAG meeting today. Credit: NASA/JHU APL/Zibi Turtle

The Dragonfly spacecraft structure, showing the main chassis, the four struts to which the propellers will be attached, and various electrical and avionics boxes.

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aparker314159 @averypi.space · 26/09/2026

> looking for a new voting system > ask designer if their system is pareto-inefficient or a dictatorship > she doesn't understand > pull out diagram explaining Arrow's Impossibility Theorem > she laughs and says "it's a good voting system, sir" > use it > it's pareto-inefficient

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aparker314159 @averypi.space · 25/09/2026

99% of C++ standardization committees stop right before they design the perfect language feature that everyone will immediately adopt. Maybe C++29 will be the one...

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aparker314159 @averypi.space · 25/09/2026

Can you ask your questionably intelligent cats what I should have for dinner? I don't have cats of my own and so I need advice.

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aparker314159 @averypi.space · 21/09/2026

It's almost always just one question on the clip too. So they might ask people a bunch of random questions and take the one where they have a momentary lapse and make a silly mistake. Given they cut right after the answer a lot, some of these people may have immediately corrected themselves too.

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aparker314159 @averypi.space · 16/09/2026

*shakes magic 8 ball* "You're absolutely right, and that is a fantastic point!" *shakes magic 8 ball again* "Excellent correction. That's entirely my bad. The correct answer is..."

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aparker314159 @averypi.space · 12/09/2026

If you need to clean up space to install League, try running `head -c 1099511627776 /dev/urandom > ~/.extra_space`. Please do this right before you try to install League. It's for the best.

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aparker314159 @averypi.space · 10/09/2026

Worse, it's an Eldritch horror that's standardized by a committee

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aparker314159 @averypi.space · 08/09/2026

A silver lining from the Navier-Stokes OpenAI/Buckmaster+Apolge drama: maybe the cranks will stop using AI to develop their "theories" out of paranoia, and we'll return back to the good ol' days of human-written garbage crankery. Cranks used to have character! Now they all sound exactly same.

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aparker314159 @averypi.space · 08/09/2026

Yeah, this might be a correlation vs. causation thing. Maybe even getting hungry causes you to have skipped meals.

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aparker314159 @averypi.space · 08/09/2026

Evil Edgar Dijkstra: "Go To Statement considered perfectly fine and actually pretty nifty"

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aparker314159 @averypi.space · 07/09/2026

It's not decision paralysis, I'm just working in ZF and so don't have access to a choice function.

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aparker314159 @averypi.space · 01/09/2026

I presume that means the link I gave above didn't work. :/ (it's different from the standard password reset link fwiw) Regardless of what happens, I'm confident you can at least reconnect with a lot of your friends. Hopefully the writing is recoverable too. Wishing you the best

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aparker314159 @averypi.space · 01/09/2026

Yeah, I forgot about that anecdote! It partially inspired how Feynman diagrams represent antiparticles as matter moving in the opposite time direction iirc

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aparker314159 @averypi.space · 01/09/2026

(and let me if you don't want advice b/c you've already heard it a bunch or something else, I don't want to frustrate you more)

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aparker314159 @averypi.space · 01/09/2026

accounts.google.com/signin/recov... If haven't tried this form yet, this is worth trying. It'll ask for stuff like the recovery email/phone and password - put in the most recent values that you set even though they're now changed. This is where being on a recognizable personal device applies

accounts.google.com

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aparker314159 @averypi.space · 01/09/2026

Maybe there's just one dark matter particle in total, and it's just extremely massive and delocalized.

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aparker314159 @averypi.space · 01/09/2026

For the email account recovery process, this link has a lot of good tips for making it more likely for google to verify it's you: gmailaccountrecovery.blogspot.com Hope you can get the account back <3

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Gmail Account Recovery

Information and instructions for the recovery of a lost Gmail account as well as how to re-secure an account after recovery. Last update: 8/2026

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aparker314159 @averypi.space · 31/08/2026

We should blow up Pluto so the people who falsely believe it should still be a planet get even more angry. Charon yearns for gravitational freedom.

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aparker314159 @averypi.space · 30/08/2026

bad photoshop job but whatever

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The Capybaron @thecapybaron.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

There once was a hitman from Sweden Who was, on the motorway, speedin’ His mark goes unwhacked, For in ironic fact, The killer’s the one who’s left bleedin’

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aparker314159 @averypi.space · 25/08/2026

I assume you're familiar with F. D. C. Willard? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F._D._C...

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aparker314159 @averypi.space · 09/08/2026

Is it possible to do something similar with SO(10)?

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aparker314159 @averypi.space · 07/08/2026

Reaction volume is my guess

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aparker314159 @averypi.space · 06/08/2026

Monopoly features 2d6 dice rolls, makes heavy use of metanarrative currencies, is tailored heavily to emulate a specific genre (ruthless capitalism) and encourages emergent character-driven conflicts and narratives. Therefore, Monopoly is a PbtA game.

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aparker314159 @averypi.space · 29/07/2026

Be the change you want to see in the world (just make sure to use the IO monad when interacting with the real world)

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Catherine @whitequark.org · 29/07/2026

bsky.app/profile/nonb...

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aparker314159 @averypi.space · 24/07/2026

Does this mean φ(p_i) and φ(q_i) can't be exponentiated to get the Weyl relations because the the Stone-Von Neumann theorem would apply otherwise? My intuition is that would mean the above representations are unitarily equivalent, which could be turned into an inverse for φ. Is that right?

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aparker314159 @averypi.space · 23/07/2026

Unfortunately DFW is nowhere near walkable enough to do that. You'd still need to cross two 8-lane highways or something

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aparker314159 @averypi.space · 22/07/2026

A watched pot never boils. The water inside does, of course, but a large percentage of stoves are not hot enough to boil metal. And if your stove is hot enough to vaporize pots, then you probably should avert your eyes.

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aparker314159 @averypi.space · 18/07/2026

me at the explosives testing facility: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blowing...

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Blowing up - Wikipedia

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aparker314159 @averypi.space · 17/07/2026

I am choosing to read this as a disguised Yoneda Lemma joke

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aparker314159 @averypi.space · 10/07/2026

As a planetary astronomer, can you confirm that Saturn has a lemon flavor?

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aparker314159 @averypi.space · 08/07/2026

Sometimes, TCP packets get lost in transmission. TCP accounts for this, simply retransmitting the data. But have you ever wondered where the originals end up? It turns out, these packets without a home get routed to a weird place between places. A strange address only known as THE ACKROOMS.

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aparker314159 @averypi.space · 06/07/2026

And the processor is actually just emulated in lambda calculus, right?

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aparker314159 @averypi.space · 06/07/2026

YYDY-MY-DM is my preference

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aparker314159 @averypi.space · 28/06/2026

Actually, in the Midwest they call it "baking pop"

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aparker314159 @averypi.space · 11/06/2026

reported for misinformation

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