Ciro Santilli @cirosantilli 40

Has some of the best map data available for the United Kingdom, but their data appears to be proprietary?

Ciro Santilli feels a bit like this guy:

One big divergence: obsession with translating every page into every language.

His Mathematics Genealogy Project entry: www.genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu/id.php?id=56185

Old French website: spoirier.lautre.net/

singlesunion.org/ so cute, he's looking for true love!!! This is something Ciro often thinks about: why it is so difficult to find love without looking people in the eye. The same applies to jobs to some extent. He has an Incel wiki page: incels.wiki/w/Sylvain_Poirier :-)

This is Ciro Santilli's favorite laptop brand. He's been on it since the early 2010's after he saw his then-girlfriend-later-wife using it.

Ciro doesn't know how to explain it, but ThinkPads just feel... right. The screen, the keyboard, the lid, the touchpad are all exactly what Ciro likes.

The only problem with ThinkPad is that it is owned by Lenovo which is a Chinese company, and that makes Ciro feel bad. But he likes it too much to quit... what to do?

Ciro is also reassured to see that in every enterprise he's been so far as of 2020, ThinkPads are very dominant. And the same when you see internal videos from other big tech enterprises, all those nerds are running... Ubuntu on ThinkPads! And the ISS.

Those nerds like their ThinkPads so much, that Ciro has seen some acquaintances with crazy old ThinkPad machines, missing keyboard buttons or the like. They just like their machines that much.

ThinkPads are are also designed for repairability, and it is easy to buy replacement parts, and there are OEM part replacement video tutorials: www.youtube.com/watch?v=vseFzFFz8lY No visible planned obsolescence here! With the caveat that the official online part stores can be shit as mentioned at Section "Lenovo".

Further more, in 2020 Lenovo is announced full certification for Ubuntu www.forbes.com/sites/jasonevangelho/2020/06/03/lenovos-massive-ubuntu-and-red-hat-announcement-levels-up-linux-in-2020/#28a8fd397ae0 which fantastic news!

The only thing Ciro never understood is the trackpoint: superuser.com/questions/225059/how-to-get-used-of-trackpoint-on-a-thinkpad Why would you use that with such an amazing touchpad? And vimium.

www2.physics.ox.ac.uk/students/course-materials/symmetry-in-condensed-matter-physics# Archive: web.archive.org/web/20230804204137/https://www2.physics.ox.ac.uk/students/course-materials/symmetry-in-condensed-matter-physics Lecture notes from 2019.

Professor: Radu Coldea

The key thing in a good system of units is to define units in a way that depends only on physical properties of nature.

Ideally (or basically necessarily?) the starting point generally has to be discrete phenomena, e.g.

What we don't want is to have macroscopic measurement artifacts, (or even worse, the size of body parts! Inset dick joke) as you can always make a bar slightly more or less wide. And even metals evaporate over time! Though the mad people of the Avogadro project still attempted otherwise well into the 2010s!

Standards of measure that don't depend on artifacts are known as intrinsic standards.