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Also been working on PS2 stuff. It's been very fun!

Jörg's automation of the machine is truly fun :) The mechanics of the machine are really clunky and giving it an external clock made it function so much more smoothly iirc.

Never heard this, but very accurate. thanks :)

Ah, you're right. "30 verses" made it sound like more than what you can see on that image. Luckily most of the papyrus is very legible! even if fragmented...

Probably! but how would i know?

So is there any way to actually read it? Or do i have to buy an obscure french book? can you even buy the book? Academic publishing/gatekeeping is such a joke.

If you're rotating around your fingers you're doing something else, not what i mean. I'm just talking palm up, rotating in the vertical axis, 720°. like the cup dance.

The whole assumption of the video is that one cannot understand spinors. He does a good job with the mathematics but i disagree with the premise.

Sometimes the simplest things are hidden in plain sight :) Most people point with their fingers/hands. Unlike rayman, who has vector-like hands, biological beings have them connected to their body, which makes them behave like spinors. But Dirac actually knew about this, after all there is a belt trick named after him.

But with a twist in the arm. After another 360 the arm is back too.

No, around a single axis. if you hold your hand palm up you can rotate in the (vertical) z axis around 360° and get a twist in the arm. another 360° undoes the twist, that's 720° around a single axis.

Very cool! The suggestion to consider how the standard model came to be rather than starting with the result sounds like an excellent idea.

But of course i have to disagree with this: "A spin-1/2 particle is described by a spinor, which is a bit weird, but spin-1 particle is described by something more familiar: a vector!"

In my view a spinor is even more familiar than a vector: it's like a hand - it comes back to itself after 720° of rotation. Just like a vector is like an arrow or a mirror, which come back after 360°. What could be more familiar than a hand?

I'd be so much more interested in ipv6 if ISPs would just hand out a stable prefix. as it is ipv6 makes very little sense to me

Interesting that you're saying the BSDs use something sysvinit-based. i never saw any runlevel idea there, which i thought was the primary marker of sysvinit? arch used to have an init system that felt very BSD-like. unfortunately they moved to systemd, and i went to void, but not happy with the init system there either. using linux used to be so much easier when "learning an init system" wasn't really a thing yet.