Luna @boykisser.dev · 07/04/2026yeah I'm sure nobody will use it for radar applications. surely nobody can Claude code a radar right? 110
Luna @boykisser.dev · 30/03/20263 months after moving to Toronto and making so many new friends and then be reminded that I still don't have a job 130
Luna @boykisser.dev · 20/02/2025ohhhh husbant… no we are gonna be taking the subway instead of out in the snow 0120
![Pappus in his Mathematical collection writes (see for example [3]):-
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solved with straight line and circle are properly called 'plane' problems, for the lines by which such problems are solved have their origin in a plane. Those problems that are solved by the use of one or more sections of the cone are called 'solid' problems. For it is necessary in the construction to use surfaces of solid figures, that is to say, cones. There remain the third type, the so-called 'linear' problem. For the construction in these cases curves other than those already mentioned are required, curves having a more varied and forced origin and arising from more irregular surfaces and from complex motions. Of this character are the curves discovered in the so-called 'surface loci' and numerous others even more involved... These curves have many wonderful properties. More recent writers have indeed considered some of them worthy of more extended treatment, and one of the curves is called 'the paradoxical curve' by Menelaus. Other curves of the same type are spirals, quadratrices, cochloids, and cissoids. ... Since problems differ in this way, the earlier geometers were not able to solve the aforementioned problem about the angle, because it is by nature solid; for they were not yet familiar with the sections of the cone, and for that reason were at a loss. Later, however, they trisected the angle by means of the conics, using in the solution the verging described below .....](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:hc467av65w3dnjimpvxei43v/bafkreicqlbab3hiyvygcp5zwceif4i5unrwitwh4cm3ek2tjtsyenws25i)
