Something J.M. related: ko-fi.com/pleasureoffiguring

To make it more explicit: J.M. has now a "Buy me a coffee" page.

@b3m2a1, thanks, that Print > Save as PDF works much better (on mac)

@halirutan This is great!

hopefully J.M. will be buzzing from a lot of caffeine soon

@ChrisK I hope this will work out for JM because I really want him to finally have a computer again. I would be glad if everyone helped.

I went ahead and doubled his current number of coffees. Let's make this happen

I bumped it to the reciprocal of the fine structure constant.

@RohitNamjoshi Awesome!

Don't have much money at the moment so I only managed to give ~π coffees

@VitaliyKaurov The Wolfram Community site seems to be using TLS 1.0 or 1.1 - this is old and insecure, and modern browsers will stop accepting those versions in the future, so it may want updating soon. (My browser wouldn't let me in today :( )

@CarlLange The WC site has more issues than just that I think -_-

Some of the pages take >60s to load. It's wild. And inconsistent (but consistently slower than pretty much any other site I use).

@b3m2a1 Yes, well, this one is hopefully pretty easy to fix :)

@CarlLange Like it's rocket science to host a fast-loading forum website in 2019...

@C.E. 🤷‍♀️ Sometimes I think they could get Jan Poeschko to build a new forum in about a weekend, but hey. I'm happier for WL to be good than the website to be good.

@b3m2a1 Desperate to find the question in your new profile photo

@CarlLange Or they could use some normal API not the weird LifeRay one, but my guess is it's cheaper to do it like this.

@CarlLange I stumbled upon it pasted as a picture in one of the chat rooms for Meta.SE

@b3m2a1 Yeah. I imagine they're happy to have it outsourced as well. Though it would be nice to have a community-run forum (rather than having to pick between Wolfram's and Stack Overflows's), but I'm not gonna build it :D

@b3m2a1 omg I love it

@CarlLange turns out it was a response to this: meta.stackexchange.com/questions/273727/…

Pretty sure I found the screenshot elsewhere, but there you go

Another late night screwing around in Mathematica, another time I curse SW for not caring about a dark mode

(a good one, that is, not ReverseColor which barely counts)

I don't suppose anybody knows where I might have luck finding mathematical papers published 1880-1920? It turns out I am related to a man named Oskar Lesser, who wrote some apparently important books on maths education in the early 1900s.

I have a few old letters of his dated 1898-1904 where it seems as though he was working on some geometry theorems, but my reading of old german script isn't great and it's hard to infer what's going on from context, so I was wondering if it was possible to find things he may have published at the time.

I'm no academic so I don't have access to eg university libraries :(

(afaik not the astronomer Oskar Lesser, but similar time period)

(He wrote Die Infinitesimalrechnung Im Unterrichte Der Prima, apparently a big enough deal that you can still buy it on Amazon)

@CarlLange It seems he rather was a teacher.

google.de/…

Even as an academic, it's rare these days that you go physically to your library. However, I use our subscriptions to "web of science" heavily and of course the subscriptions to all the journals to get hands on the papers that are behind a paywall.

But to make a quick research for academic papers, scholar.google.com is sufficient. I checked Oskar Lesser there, but I didn't had much more luck. The same books popped up

You can search for "author:lesser-o" there and restrict the time period and you get