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It was just pointed out to us that one way to prove the Riemann hypothesis true is to prove that it is undecidable (i.e. it can't be proven true or false)

I just want to say that I am really, really glad that awoo.space exists. Thank you, @kobold, for making it.

The British names for musical note lengths baffle me.

What on earth is a "crotchet"? why is it called a "quaver"?

Everything wrong with Zener diodes (in the strict sense, as opposed to avalanche diodes which are also often called Zener diodes) in one graph

As a synth, I probably have some IGBTs somewhere in me. Does that make them LGBT IGBTs?

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FOLKS Alias Sketchbook is now FREE. If you're pirating a copy of SAI or Photoshop, consider switching, as it is similarly featured, if I recall correctly

sketchbook.com/

If you cannot USE Sai on your computer because it makes your tablet freak out you will NOT be able to use Sketchbook, as a warning.

the symbol for the fine structure constant is α anyway, not a or A

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No, wolfram alpha, I do not want to know what 100Ω · 100 fine structure constants is, when I type A in a context that also includes Ω I mean amperes

Ah, electrical engineering. The only occupation where you could talk about applying chlorine trifluoride to a sample of mercury cadmium telluride and only get a few strange looks.

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urls with more than three dots in them make me suspicious

like, www.website.com? Sure, that's okay

www.website.co.uk? okay, that's how .uk sites often are

www.subdomain.website.com? looking a little sketchy here, why not just subdomain.website.com?

subsubdomain.subdomain.website.com? okay what are you doing

triplesub.subsubdomain.subdomain.website.com? okay that's just suspicious

in particular, four arms, where the upper pair ends in big cute paws and the lower pair in regular hands

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especially if we don't know the person we're sending it to, and don't know if they're the sort to take days to answer an email or if they're known to just not answer them sometimes or something

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I really don't like that period after you send an email or other form of message to someone, when you're not sure if a) they received it or b) they are taking a while to get back to it or c) they are intentionally ignoring it

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As you enter a town, you see a sign saying "Population: 1,204".

"That can't be right," you say. "The encyclopedia says this town has 1,186 residents. Obviously the sign is wrong."

This is what prescriptivism based on dictionary entries sounds like.

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