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 How did they come to be called "pivot tables"? Was it a standard use of "pivot" at the time? 

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 I am writing a very fun paper with things such as "unless P = NP" and I am also citing an OEIS sequence. For those interested, this is the way to reference it: https://oeis.org/wiki/Works_Citing_OEIS#Referencing_the_OEIS

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 @e636ca8e La personne de dos a la main gauche à l'envers, non ? 
 @7fbbae4a Mais c'est qui ce genre de types, où est-ce qu'ils vont les trouver ? Et comment quiconque peut-il penser que l'opinion de quelqu'un pathologiquement dépourvu de la moindre empathie peut être pertinente sur un sujet social ? Pourquoi on lui donne la parole juste ? 
 Jj'ai fait de la transcription audio vers texte en français en local sur ma machine d'émissions... 
 @f6cebb91 Avec quel modèle ? 
 Sourdough advice: don't do like me, keep a backup.

Either in a cup in the fridge (lasts weeks to months), or dehydrated (lasts forever). This way, if you lose your main culture, you can quickly resuscitate it. I had a lot of work recently and no time to properly take care of mine, which got mold: there is no coming back from this :(

I started a new one but I will be now a few weeks without bread :'(

#sourdough #bread 
 TFW your two favourite programming languages have a release on the same week ☺️

#RustLang #Python 
 Un gars assez connu m'écrit sur ce réseau. J'aurais pu lu répondre que j'ai payé une galette ... 
 @f6cebb91 Des thésards peuvent être dans des jurys de thèse ? 
 Just signed up for an intro pottery class (like I need another hobby but) omg i'm super excited. ... 
 @24188a09 Amazing, enjoy :) Pottery is really fun :) 
 I just published my first PyPI package, a rust/python package built with maturin and automatically deployed by the GitHub CI for windows/macos/linux :)

I am extremely satisfied of how well the building and publishing pipeline is working, and impressed of how easy it is! I was expecting it to be an excruciating cross-compilation nightmare, that I could only target one or two targets, and that I'd forget how to do it every time… No: I just push a tag!

Next step: migrate to GitLab or Codeberg :) 
 Wow. Can’t believe it’s already Thursday. Where has the week gone?! 
 @dbc45806 Wow, I am not the only one then? We might be onto something here 
 The curious thing about Germans is they think every bicycle is rad. 
 nostr:npub1u0rdjg6ckay8y94pkj884uhmeal89v2l0cw9dpauw2dsp0c2a5tsns92zh put an ellipsis on top of i... 
 @40407376 Hahaha I li̇̈⃛ke it :) 
 Proof-reading our latest paper, dotting the i's and crossing the t's, usual stuff

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 Everything can be use to write a reverse shell. 
 @e636ca8e What do you mean by that? 
 #Mastohelp : j'ai un édredon en plume grande grande taille (précision parce que le secouer à l... 
 @511cd458 Je le retourne régulièrement pour que ça migre dans l'autre sens 
 nostr:npub1u0rdjg6ckay8y94pkj884uhmeal89v2l0cw9dpauw2dsp0c2a5tsns92zh I'm assuming this is on a p... 
 @c74770b5 Usually there are one or two other reviewers too, who do their work correctly and give a bit more detail. But when the other two reviews are mixed, and the editor rejects the paper, I feel frustrated that one of the three reviewers gave a blank statement instead of actually reviewing the paper. Either it could have tipped the scale in the other direction, or at least it would have given me more points to improve about the paper, which is always good. 
 nostr:npub1u0rdjg6ckay8y94pkj884uhmeal89v2l0cw9dpauw2dsp0c2a5tsns92zh Thanks, Virgile. :) it’s ... 
 @61173325 I do :) I am making bread once a week, but I should make pizza just as often, if I want a chance to reach your level :) 
 @61173325 It looks just as fantastic as usual! I love the color and aspect of the crumb! I would buy it! 
 nostr:npub1u0rdjg6ckay8y94pkj884uhmeal89v2l0cw9dpauw2dsp0c2a5tsns92zh nostr:npub1kr3g54ud6rlr56c7... 
 @192e2b92 @b0e28a57 I am not sure I can recommend anything yet, given how new my bookwyrm account is, but there is a list of servers there: https://joinbookwyrm.com/ I joined the largest one (bookwyrm.social), just to discover how things work, and thinking I can probably move later if needed. 
 I am still figuring out how things work, but I just imported my GoodReads profile into BookWyrm and I am thrilled to now be sharing my reading interests with the Fediverse rather than with Amazon! :)

@b0e28a57 

#BookWyrm #books #reading 
 nostr:npub1u0rdjg6ckay8y94pkj884uhmeal89v2l0cw9dpauw2dsp0c2a5tsns92zh I have been thinking the sa... 
 @9a803a33 I fully agree. The only problem with mechanical pencils is that you can only have 0, 1, or not enough (some would say "too many", but they just don't know) 
 I've left my mechanical pencil in the lab, and so have to use a PEN today? Ugh, the ick. 
 @9a803a33 I can see a solution involving one more mechanical pencil :) 
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 @c74770b5 What I find the most unprofessional are the one-paragraph reviews, copy-pasted from review to review, usually saying the paper is great without having read it and without saying anything specific about the paper at all. 
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 @01d883e5 I know nothing about yoyos except for my childhood yoyo toy which looked very different, but I am curious: are yoyos actually small diabolos? 
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 @e636ca8e C'est une des plus connues, mais c'est une mesure parmi d'autres :) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/String_metric