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At first it might look a bit pretentious: "Ok thickie, this will hurt your ordinary mind". However, on reflection, a warning that the writer has bothered to pu

At first it might look a bit pretentious: "Ok thickie, this will hurt your ordinary mind". However, on reflection, a warning that the writer has bothered to put their back into the job for a while is a great idea. When you see it, stop, put on the kettle, go out for a fag (cigarette) or whatever and then come back.

JadeNB 3y ago
Although Bourbaki was/were capable of being plenty pretentious, I think that it might seem less pretentious if read not as "from our lofty viewpoint, we can see that this is too tough for you," but rather as a very literal analogue of the road sign: "it's easy to get dangerous results if you traverse this territory without sufficient care."
- gerdesj 3y ago
  I was taking the piss 8) I will definitely be deploying this symbol in some of my documentation. Given I'm an IT bod: it will be the ones pertaining to name resolution and ... time.
  - nomilk 3y ago
    > I will definitely be deploying this symbol in some of my documentation. +1. Also curious to see where it should be positioned on the page. The wiki page says it goes in the margin. I tried searching github for 'u2621' to find examples but couldn't spot any rendered examples yet (only code).
    - belzsch 3y ago
      Check out the TeXBook, eg. page 14.
- lloeki 3y ago
  Yeah, other possible reads: - "brace yourself, here be dragons" - "til now it was a bit of a treadmill, but that's a part you probably don't want to fast read" - "on the surface this may look innocuous but there are tricky subtleties that you may not want to overlook"
thewakalix 3y ago
/* * You are not expected to understand this. */
idontknowifican 3y ago
why the addition to clarify your use of fag?
- gerdesj 3y ago
  The word fag has multiple meanings across the various en_* variants, including cigarette and (a) gay. Many readers hereabouts read English as a second language. It took me roughly two seconds to ensure that my meaning was spelled out. This response, rather longer 8)

JadeNB 3y ago

Although Bourbaki was/were capable of being plenty pretentious, I think that it might seem less pretentious if read not as "from our lofty viewpoint, we can see that this is too tough for you," but rather as a very literal analogue of the road sign: "it's easy to get dangerous results if you traverse this territory without sufficient care."

gerdesj 3y ago
I was taking the piss 8) I will definitely be deploying this symbol in some of my documentation. Given I'm an IT bod: it will be the ones pertaining to name resolution and ... time.
- nomilk 3y ago
  > I will definitely be deploying this symbol in some of my documentation. +1. Also curious to see where it should be positioned on the page. The wiki page says it goes in the margin. I tried searching github for 'u2621' to find examples but couldn't spot any rendered examples yet (only code).
  - belzsch 3y ago
    Check out the TeXBook, eg. page 14.
lloeki 3y ago
Yeah, other possible reads: - "brace yourself, here be dragons" - "til now it was a bit of a treadmill, but that's a part you probably don't want to fast read" - "on the surface this may look innocuous but there are tricky subtleties that you may not want to overlook"

thewakalix 3y ago

/* * You are not expected to understand this. */

idontknowifican 3y ago

why the addition to clarify your use of fag?

gerdesj 3y ago
The word fag has multiple meanings across the various en_* variants, including cigarette and (a) gay. Many readers hereabouts read English as a second language. It took me roughly two seconds to ensure that my meaning was spelled out. This response, rather longer 8)