Donald Abrams

@hypethral.bsky.social

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Striver for general adequacy occasionally employed as a software maker 🇵🇹

pin that says "stand with survivors Release the [Blacked out] files"
map of Europe with energy prices from -.22 Euro cents/kWh to 15.98 Euro cents/kWh. The Iberian peninsula, France, and rural Scandinavia are much lower than the rest of Europe, by half and order of magnitude.
From the movie Fallen: Denzel Washington smoking a cigarette sitting on the front steps of a log cabin while John Goodman sits in the snow against his car.
Large poster titled the Cognitive bias codex with four colored sections labeled "What should we remember?", "Too much information", "Not enough meaning" and "Need to act fast"
Quicksort example in Mystical, an arcane ring programming language
4 AI generates images of trail mix creating machines that inexplicably have mouths but also somehow look like standard corporate images that you'd see on a slide show you struggle to stay awake through.
bluesky shortening "jenn schiffer" to "jen..." in a reply
Keyboard with at least one thumbtacks on every key, stabby side up
snippet from the linked book "A history of mathematical notation" by Cajori Florian: In considering maxima and minima, on page 24, Landen invents a new designation, "writing [x J-L y] for the value of the quotient of [x...Ly]-[v...Lu] divided by x-v, when v is therein taken equal to x." Landen had no followers in the use of his symbols.
Official US Bureau of Labor statistics graph showing full-time employment of news analysts, reporters and correspondents from 2000-2020. ~50k in 2000, averages around 62k, spikes up to 78k in 2019, down to 46k in 2023. Additional data in link.
4 month old baby with a wide eyed WTF face