One vote does, unlikely to be yours though.

It's rough when our own media are so craven to power that we need to rely on Russian propaganda for news.

I recommend you don't rely on it; while it may be news, it's rarely truths.

Full title: Is the expected distance between two random interior points of a convex body always at most that of two random boundary points?

Related discussion on MathOverflow: https://mathoverflow.net/questions/509202/

That's been pending for a while, I'll just stop contributing code.

You don't need an app if you don't want one.

In a CLI, oath lets you calculate a TOTP.

But it's maybe a bit more insecure if you use the same machine.

Why? You’re against 2FA? You couldn’t contribute without an account before, could you?

I'd had a GH account for ages under my own name, I closed that as soon as Microsoft took it over, moved all my repos to GitLab, good move. I opened a new GH account under a silly name [1] so I could collaborate with people still on it. Now I'm not really against 2FA, but don't use it myself, it adds friction, adds risk (what if you lose it), it seems too "theatrical" for my liking. You want to use 2FA? be my guest, live and let live etc. What I don't like is being told what to do with my account, particularly by someone like MicroSlop. I won't add 2FA to my GH account, so I'll not contribute any code to GH based projects, ho hum. As I understand it, I'll still be able to raise issues without 2FA, fine, and when 2FA becomes mandatory for that, I'll stop doing that too.

[1] https://github.com/noproblemwiththat

A nit on the use of *: in lots of places there are "int* foo" and so on, but in C it's traditional to have "int *foo" since "int* foo, bar" looks like foo & bar are pointers, but they are not, bar is an int, while "int *foo, bar" suggests the interpretation that the compiler will make.

Good catch—C’s declarator syntax can definitely be misleading there, especially with multiple variables in one line.

Come on Hong Kong, the UK has had this since 2000, catch up!

"Not that it matters ...", What? Of course it matters! I only come to HN for extended arguments on the meaning of the Dialectic.

The BBC gets round to this story in the end. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47493857

Woit's response: https://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/?p=15647