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The optimal path to mathematical mastery is "Error establishing a database connection"?

by rfl890 1y ago

ethersteeds 1y ago
That's correct
klipt 1y ago
Obviously it's not meant literally. The database represents your mind, and the error represents all the mathematical proofs you haven't written yet. By solving the error (proofs) you learn mathematics. /s
- Avicebron 1y ago
  Sheaf residuals, each edge checks if its two endpoints line up. The squared differences add up to a single number R. That’s your “how inconsistent is the network right now?” gauge.
bbor 1y ago
Oof. Not usually one to comment on technical issues, but that's a rough one to get for a (presumably) completely-static site! Dr. Sheaf, please consider serving your site via a dedicated service like S3. This is a solved problem <3
- figassis 1y ago
  He probably doesn’t know how. This message is em from Wordpress. There are many WP providers where you just signup and start writing. They don’t tell you that if you get to HN front page, your db will die. I don’t know any static blog providers. He’d have to roll out his own or use Medium/Substack.
  - easygenes 1y ago
    > I don’t know any static blog providers. Bear Blog comes to mind (no connection): https://bearblog.dev https://bearblog.dev
    - stavros 1y ago
      That doesn't look static, it's a Django app, no?
      - easygenes 1y ago
        Ah yeah, I guess I just assumed it was static because every time I've been to a Bear blog it has been so light and snappy. Just did a little looking. Micro.blog [0] is a true hosted static site offering; just hosted Hugo. There's also Publii [1], an open source cross-platform desktop static CMS that has one-click push to a variety of cloud CDNs (e.g. Netlify or Github Pages) [0] https://micro.blog https://micro.blog [1] https://getpublii.com https://getpublii.com
  - bbor 1y ago
    Fascinating, thanks for sharing your expertise. I've never published a blog, obviously. This just seems like such an absurdly simple use case... If blogs aren't static, what is???
CobrastanJorji 1y ago
Computer science is math. Software engineering is not math.
- heresie-dabord 1y ago
  And vibe-coding is barely coding, nevermind software engineering. (;
stared 1y ago
It stings be a bit that people use Wordpress in times of really wonderful static sites generators AND vibe coding. They are both pleasure to write, make it easy to tweak style however you please, can cost nothing (just host it on GitHub pages), no maintenance, and if something hits Hacker News, no risk of an outage.
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The optimal path to mathematical mastery is "Error establishing a database connection"?

by rfl890 1y ago

The optimal path to mathematical mastery is "Error establishing a database connection"?

ethersteeds 1y ago

That's correct

klipt 1y ago

Obviously it's not meant literally. The database represents your mind, and the error represents all the mathematical proofs you haven't written yet. By solving the error (proofs) you learn mathematics. /s

Avicebron 1y ago
Sheaf residuals, each edge checks if its two endpoints line up. The squared differences add up to a single number R. That’s your “how inconsistent is the network right now?” gauge.

bbor 1y ago

Oof. Not usually one to comment on technical issues, but that's a rough one to get for a (presumably) completely-static site! Dr. Sheaf, please consider serving your site via a dedicated service like S3. This is a solved problem <3

figassis 1y ago
He probably doesn’t know how. This message is em from Wordpress. There are many WP providers where you just signup and start writing. They don’t tell you that if you get to HN front page, your db will die. I don’t know any static blog providers. He’d have to roll out his own or use Medium/Substack.
- easygenes 1y ago
  > I don’t know any static blog providers. Bear Blog comes to mind (no connection): https://bearblog.dev https://bearblog.dev
  - stavros 1y ago
    That doesn't look static, it's a Django app, no?
    - easygenes 1y ago
      Ah yeah, I guess I just assumed it was static because every time I've been to a Bear blog it has been so light and snappy. Just did a little looking. Micro.blog [0] is a true hosted static site offering; just hosted Hugo. There's also Publii [1], an open source cross-platform desktop static CMS that has one-click push to a variety of cloud CDNs (e.g. Netlify or Github Pages) [0] https://micro.blog https://micro.blog [1] https://getpublii.com https://getpublii.com
- bbor 1y ago
  Fascinating, thanks for sharing your expertise. I've never published a blog, obviously. This just seems like such an absurdly simple use case... If blogs aren't static, what is???

CobrastanJorji 1y ago

Computer science is math. Software engineering is not math.

heresie-dabord 1y ago
And vibe-coding is barely coding, nevermind software engineering. (;

stared 1y ago

It stings be a bit that people use Wordpress in times of really wonderful static sites generators AND vibe coding. They are both pleasure to write, make it easy to tweak style however you please, can cost nothing (just host it on GitHub pages), no maintenance, and if something hits Hacker News, no risk of an outage.

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