It's an X from the blackboard bold range in Unicode.

Call me crazy, but for me the next stop after nitter is knitter, not the other thing.

I've always wondered what would happen if you named a kid Nominative Determinism. Some kind of paradox?

> name change at 18 probably

That's so cool because it's true, and holds very strongly with the semantic concept

name change at 18 probably

He'd probably grow up to be the guy who goes around making people do things that sound like their names.

He would be promptly murdered by someone named Alexander the Great.

> Maybe I should look into training an AI in the audio style of Patrick O’Brian and have it read Shakespeare for me.

That's what you took away from that?!

I went down a rabbit hole a few summers ago and I ended up writing a calculator from scratch in assembly for RISC OS. Interesting experience having GUI routines at the syscall level

On the flip side, .hpp always makes me chuckle. What is that, Header++?

Well... Yes. If you start including templates in it it definitely is

I've never really been a math person, either, which is why I thought I was going to hate discrete math in college. I mean, it wasn't always the easiest thing ever, but it was a lot more intuitive to me than continuous math. And that's all programming is, materialized discrete math.

When I was pretty young, I saw someone (I don’t remember who actually) show me that an odd number squared is always odd [1].

I remember thinking it was the coolest thing ever to be able to know properties for all numbers, without having to test any of them.

[1] most people here already know this, but for posterity, let’s define odd numbers as the expression 2k + 1. Now we square the expression which expands to 4k^2 + 4k + 1. We can factor this to 2(2k^2 + 2k) + 1. We can set the parenthetical expression to u, so we now have 2u + 1, which looks a lot like our original expression, showing it will always be odd.

And the SD card logo was originally intended for Super Density Disc

I was one of these hapless Comic Chat users. Luckily someone gently nudged me toward a real IRC client lol. I was an absolute IRC fiend for years after that.

That's odd, it always worked fine for me. I have had that issue with archive.today, though.