On 2024-03-19 10:17:06, Mike Schmitz via Dng wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 19, 2024 at 01:09:57PM -0400, Steve Litt wrote:
> > I'm re-learning pre-calculus online, and an advertisement came on
> > saying something like:
> >
> > "Still searching Youtube for math help and finding nothing except
> > videos from 2006?
> >
> > <swearwords class="deleted">
> > </swearwords>
> >
> > OMG, 2006, it's out of warranty!
> >
> > I'm sick of this stuff. <mimic class="poettering-voice">But it's so
> > old!</mimic> Math at the undergraduate college level hasn't changed in
> > several hundred years. I was doing calculus in 1967 and differential
> > equations in 1969. The Pythagorean Theorem was discovered in 1600 BC,
> > and that's over 3600 years ago for those who think math is a hip new
> > technology.
> >
> > The increased and every day use of this appeal to novelty fallacy is
> > getting more and more annoying. It's not just software, it's
> > everything. It really frosts my petunias.
>
> GET OFF MY LAWN!!!!
>
> Sorry, couldn't help myself.
> I absolutely agree.
>
> <another old fart>

Yet another old fart yells at cloud computing!

Also agree.

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coz there are too many silver coated monkeys in the world.