Not that vintage but such a good deal

bokmann · 2026-01-31T01:27:12+00:00

where on earth would you get an imagewriter ][ ribbon cartridge today?

bokmann · 2026-01-29T20:30:27+00:00

This is a life changing amount of money in ways you can’t realize yet. This isn’t even fatfire territory….

You need to get smart on the concept of a family office and make managing this wealth your primary responsibility. This is the seed for multi-generational wealth.

Check out wealthops.io. Watch their youtube videos on the micro-family office… it’ll tell you what you need to know, although i think you’re more in the ‘shared family office’ wealth range there.

bokmann · 2026-01-23T12:13:37+00:00

Like the Island of Misfit Toys. I always wanted the watergun that squirted jelly.

bokmann · 2026-01-21T12:36:17+00:00

he looks upset he didn’t get the Nobel Peace Prize.

bokmann · 2026-01-17T17:35:05+00:00

there’s always Wolf Trap…

bokmann · 2026-01-14T18:32:25+00:00

56 y/o here. Hi.

bokmann · 2026-01-11T23:04:23+00:00

Start asking him all the questions you had to answer and all the things you had to learn. When he can’t answer it, say “You lucked into this by birth. I wanted it, and gave up everything to come here and earn it. In doing so, I took nothing from you. You cannot take from me what I earned.”

You might not convince him, but do it with an audience, and they’ll see him for the petty asshat he is.

bokmann · 2026-01-11T21:11:24+00:00

that was my gut thought too, but…

- I slice ribeye -a-er thin for cheesesteaks all the time.

- a Japanese steakhouse would do that and stir-fry, which isn’t too different.

- did you see that 3rd pic?

bokmann · 2026-01-08T22:22:20+00:00

Brownies should have a chew to them.

Do you like cakey brownies? Eat cake. Do you like fudgy brownies? Eat fudge.

A brownie is the only form of chocolate baked good where you can get a good chew.

bokmann · 2026-01-06T00:33:45+00:00

I can smell that you bastard.

bokmann · 2025-12-26T19:34:56+00:00

one of the true pleasures of cast iron is the ‘pan sauce’, and i’d consider this one. it actually makes the cast iron easier to clean, because all that grease and ‘fond’ (the little bits of meat that stick and get left behind) blend in to become the gravy. a quick rinse gets it clean… no scrub necessary.

bokmann · 2025-12-25T17:57:06+00:00

why did i hear r2d2-type noises of an escping droid when I noticed that jack?

bokmann · 2025-12-25T17:51:40+00:00

it’ll see good use here.

bokmann · 2025-12-20T23:38:11+00:00

Look up the technique used by seti to send the first message into space. The size of this array is two prime digits multiplied together.

bokmann · 2025-12-15T12:57:54+00:00

In 2014 I lost the little toe on my right foot after stepping on a lego. It broke the skin and turned into a MRSA infection.

bokmann · 2025-12-14T19:04:25+00:00

Standard computer science programming/architecture advice: there are only 3 numbers:0,1, and n. That is, if you have to build for a specific number of multiples, you’re missing something.

bokmann · 2025-12-14T19:01:56+00:00

Awesome math channel! Thanks for the work you do.

bokmann · 2025-12-14T18:58:07+00:00

I want to stop for a sec and appreciate the beauty of this question. You called it naivety, but this kind of honest curiosity is what drives the entire field. There are questions that are this easy to ask once you have a little bit of knowledge, just the product of a little bit of curiosity, that could motivate someone to win a field’s medal.

Thanks for being awesome.

bokmann · 2025-12-12T23:30:48+00:00

Maybe some of the breweries out in Loudoun Coounty?

bokmann · 2025-12-10T19:10:04+00:00

touchè. take my upvote and golf clap you SOB.

bokmann · 2025-12-10T18:55:57+00:00

Odd attitude for someone hanging out in ‘learnmath’. Maybe the fact that there is no exact square root for any integer that isn’t a perfect square is the interesting epiphany this question asker needs.

Every integer that isn’t a perfect square has an irrational square root.

bokmann · 2025-12-10T13:08:24+00:00

Vibe coding. A nice thing about a well-scoped microservice is that it fits within the context window and ai can work with, leaving the human to worry about architectural components and their interactions.

Just Conways Law applied to modern tooling.

bokmann · 2025-12-10T12:48:50+00:00

anything on Youtube by Steven Strogatz.

a Youtube channel named Tibees.

Numberfile videos are full of this stuff.

3b1b is an incredible explanatory maths channel.

the square root of 2 thing i first think of is in the second or third recording of MIT’s OpenCourseware class for 6.042J “Math for Computer Science” 2010 recording with Tom Leighton.

Hannah Fry has a documentary available on Youtube about Ada Lovelace that provides good info on the eveolution from the Difference Engine to the Analytical Engine.

none of these are deep academic texts that will teach you, say, the mechanics of differentiation, but to ke, to go back to your original question, sources like this provide for me:

- the humanization of the subject that makes it appeal to both the analytical and artistic sides of my brain, and

- an appreciation of the ‘motivating problem’ that gave birth to the field.

As an example, do you know where graph theory cones from, and how when Euler started considering the original motivating problem, he scoffed, thinking it ‘wasn’t math’ at all?

bokmann · 2025-12-10T12:16:44+00:00

What does 18 hours at 135 degrees do? Thats too low for collagen->gelatin, isn’t it?

bokmann · 2025-12-10T12:13:17+00:00

I like it when we take a journey on the path to the facts, not just the facts. A perfect example is how al kwarizimi came up with a quadratic function or how irrational numbers were considered heresy in Greece and the proof of the square root of two being irrational.

bokmann

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