CIRCLE WITH A DOT

@shana Mine told me outright that I would fail A-level math[s] (in the UK, the exam you take at 18 before you leave school).

More fool him: I scraped a decent grade and have now (decades later) done math[s] modules at degree level.

Unless, that was his plan all along, to try and shame me into putting some effort in?

@shana when I was doing the maths parts of my degree, I very quickly realised that maths notation is the problem with why maths is difficult.

Borring from the field of computer science to remove all the greek characters that often have multiple uses [1] and rename operators with descriptors could make it way more accessible.

[1] Okay this is mainly astrophysics's fault that one equation used sigma in both cases for three different things.

@jonty Be right back, just off to tell my children to use an eyebrow pencil to draw a moustache to bypass stupid age verification tech.

@towo @cstross mixing this with the scunthorpe problem can lead to some amusement, such as buttbuttinating someone.

@bytex64 @solderandchaos was one left behind?

@Sempf This is what it looks like as of yesterday. There are small drainage holes in the bottom of the drainpipes, I don't know why there's no plants in the bottom tier (I let the other half do all the planting).

@Sempf The missus instructed me to set up three segments of gutter along the back wall. The filled them with soil and strawberry plants. It was too late last year to gauge the success, but we'll find our this year.