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Isn't there an NSFL tag? Idk, feels pretty obvious not to post this shit in communities that don't commonly host gore

Manifolds and differential forms are foundational concepts of differential topology, and connections are a foundational concept of differential geometry. They are mathematical building blocks used in modern physics, essentially enabling the transfer of multivariable calculus to arbitrary curved surfaces (without relying on an explicit embedding into Euclidean space). I think the joke is that physics students don't typically learn the details of these building blocks, rather just the relevant results, and get confused when they're emphasized.

For a tl;dr about the concepts mentioned:

• A manifold is a curve, surface, or higher-dimensional object which locally resembles Euclidean space around each point (e.g. the surface of a sphere is a 2D manifold; tiny person standing on a big sphere perceives the area around them to resemble a flat 2D plane).

• Differential forms are "things that can be integrated over a manifold of the corresponding dimension." In ordinary calculus of 1 variable, that's a suitably regular function (e.g. a continuous function), and we view such a function f(x) as a differential form by writing it as "f(x) dx."

• A connection is a way of translating local tangent vectors from one point on a manifold to another in a parallel manner, i.e. literally connecting the local geometries of different points on the manifold. The existence of a connection on a manifold enables one to reason consistently about geometric concepts on the whole manifold.

No crimes detected. Would eat and enjoy. It's not a proper poutine, would be improved by cheese curds, but impossible to be bad.

It is better to switch to Firefox. But chromium forks can generally do whatever they want, it's just a matter of maintenance burden. e.g. nothing is stopping a Chromium fork like Brave from running a manifest v2 compatible appstore, but it'll cost money to make, maintain, and operate, plus you have less discoverability as an app developer when using a smaller app store.

Have you considered a career in middle management

I notice it didn't come in a box. Didn't want the packaging to upstage the present. Smart.

This is just so people can't self host media, right? Why else would they obsessively cap upload speeds?

It's great for jumping into something you're very unfamiliar with. Unfortunately, if you often find yourself very unfamiliar with day to day tasks, you're probably incompetent. (Or maybe a butterfly who gets paid to learn new things every day.)

Dunno what you mean. I've been using a Pixel since Pixel 1. The UI has only changed a bit at a time. I've used Messages (Google's SMS app) for as long as I can remember. It's only ever had one AI assistant, which is the "hey google" one, and it's always been okay.

I'm guessing some of the issues you're noticing are specific to some Android distributions from specific brands. Mainline Android is pretty stable.

It's important to test edge cases.

I wanted to be the raccoon.