fortran is a bow and arrow. it was quite powerful and widely used in the past, but i have not met anyone in recent years who uses it other than as a hobby.

i’ve only ever used nano in the early stages of a gentoo install, when it’s too early to install vim and import my dot files 😈

here’s another mathematical approach (that has the added benefit of only working when x and y are both positive).

let f denote the linear functional on ℝ² defined by f(1,0) = x and f(0,1) = y (and extend by linearity). then the operator norm || f || is equal to max(x,y).

the set theorists were already in pain. category theory freed them from their suffering

a little category theory never hurt anyone :)

very impressive to get that many upvotes on stack overflow with only 4 views

i am already messing up my neck 8 hours a day 5 days a week for 50 weeks a year

i wouldn’t mind a little discomfort if it meant entering monitor heaven