🚀 Breaking news: math is still hard! 🎉 #Quanta Magazine bravely tackles the age-old mystery of #geometry, but who knew you could revive something that never died? 🤯 Apparently, old problems are now "new" because calling them "still unsolved" isn't trendy enough. 🙃
https://www.quantamagazine.org/new-math-revives-geometrys-oldest-problems-20250926/ #mathisstillhard #mysteries #magzine #unsolvedproblems #breakingnews #HackerNews #ngated
New Math Revives Geometry’s Oldest Problems | Quanta Magazine

Using a relatively young theory, a team of mathematicians has started to answer questions whose roots lie at the very beginning of mathematics.

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The Problem Isn't Email, It's Microsoft Exchange -- it turns out my 2011-vintage rant still rings true, now also available trackerless: https://nxdomain.no/~peter/the_problem_isnt_email_its_microsoft_exchange.html #inefficiency #timewasted #email #archiving #microsoft #exchange #compliance #deduplication #unsolvedproblems #smtp #mail #annoyances
The Problem Isn't Email, It's Microsoft Exchange

Why is printing out web pages still so insufferable? Yes, I know, web pages weren't designed to be printed. Yet, there must be some way for browsers to offer better formatting options.

A gigantic intro image makes sense on the webpage, but not on the printed page. I should be able to embiggen or shrink text in the print preview view, much as I do when viewing on-screen. But we can't even get browser printing to stop splitting lines (top half on one page and bottom half on the next). There must be a better way.

#printing #printers #webBrowsers #browsers #unsolvedProblems

“These games sprang from their deep need to close their eyes and flee from unsolved problems and anxious forebodings of doom into an imaginary world as innocuous as possible.”

https://library.hrmtc.com/2024/10/15/these-games-sprang-from-their-deep-need-to-close-their-eyes-and-flee-from-unsolved-problems-and-anxious-forebodings-of-doom-into-an-imaginary-world-as-innocuous-as-possible/

"These games sprang from their deep need to close their eyes and flee from unsolved problems and anxious forebodings of doom into an imaginary world as innocuous as possible." - The Hermetic Library Blog

These games sprang from their deep need to close their eyes and flee from unsolved problems and anxious forebodings of doom into an imaginary world as innocuous as possible. Hermann Hesse, The Glass Bead Game: (Magister Ludi) A Novel [Amazon, Bookshop, Libro.fm (Full-Cast BBC with Derek Jacobi), Publisher, Local Library] No related posts.

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