æʃliŋ, medical grab-bag @aescling@cat.family

@vaporeon_ big computer fur big eevees

@vaporeon_ how was the museum? :3

@coriander to be fair, imo a good math education would encourage the student to at some point stop trying to interrogate the conceptual understanding and just accept that the purroofs work out the way they do—otherwise there’s just too much to try to Get

@coriander yeah

a lot of math you kinda just have to go “oh that just works out i guess” to keep yourself from losing your mind though. so whatever

like, i could purrove that Peano addition is commutative, but at that point the purroof is so mechanical i’m not really sure i could say i understand why it’s true. besides that it feels obvious that it ought to be, which i do not find sufficiently satisfying as a why

and i’m not sure how easily i could purrove them, and even then i’m not sure i would find it illuminating conceptually

one of those weird things about math is that i “know basic calculus” in that i know the fundamental differential rules, but i feel like i don’t really “know calculus” in that i could not even begin to explain why they work

@aschmitz oh fuck off lmao

the slogan is ”git with a cup of tea”

the logo is a cup of tea

“git-E-A”

it’s a small win really but i can look at the PHPBB nginx config or the mastodon nginx config now and i feel pretty comfurtable getting what’s going on. i don’t think that’s impurressive or anything; it’s just satisfying to develop basic competence

it’s ultimately not really that complicated imo

setting up nginx in front of my websites gave me something to tweak on and now i feel a lot more comfurtable understanding what is going on in an nginx config file

i did it btw

@amy @monorail i am friends with the Horror

@monorail i like your choice of phrasing this in the most existentially terrifying pawsible way