Victor Michel

Not interested in edgelord-owned public discourse, but you can still find me at @vikmik.bsky.social or @[email protected]

[Victor Michel @vic_mic_]

New abomination: a tool that spawns a shell session where there are no consequences

It uses overlayfs to redirect all writes to an overlay upperdir instead of messing up the real filesystem. Ditch all changes just by exiting the shell session: https://t.co/Wdvxn5k0Js

[Victor Michel @vic_mic_]

@spimescape @halvarflake For ex, the 2025 math entrance exam was covertly about k[x]-modules, quivers, the fundamental theorem of finite abelian groups and other things which are typically way beyond the reach of a 2nd year uni student, but somehow made accessible with some cleverness.

[Victor Michel @vic_mic_]

@spimescape @halvarflake That said, this question could be accessible to a very good/motivated HS student given the right definitions/guidance. In general, ENS exams are typically about graduate/postgraduate notions carefully repackaged for 2nd year uni students.

[Victor Michel @vic_mic_]

@MarcJBrooker FWIW the other answer seems correct though - I arrive to another equivalent expression using a completely different method (computing the cardinality of the union of the complement subsets).

[Victor Michel @vic_mic_]

@MarcJBrooker To take a more concrete example: i=1, |P|=4, q=3, N=2:
(e_1, e_2) = {(1, 2, 3), (1, 2, 4)} can be drawn both by fixing '1' to be part of the i-sized intersection (and drawing (2, 3), (2, 4) for the rest), as well as fixing 2 and drawing (1, 3) and (1, 4) for the rest.

[Matthew Green @matthew_d_green]

This paper on Monte Carlo simulations absolutely blows my mind. h/t @inf_0_

[Victor Michel @vic_mic_]

@seanhn Nice! We also got a bit of summer here today https://t.co/h5pNI1iExK

[NWS Seattle @NWSSeattle]

Early summer on the north Washington coast. 🧛#wawx

[Victor Michel @vic_mic_]

@Xiatian @mjg59 That's some good eMMC grinding!
I think Tesla took something like 8 years before they had to recall a lot of their cars that were writing logs on a 8GB eMMC

(talking about https://t.co/0x8RLjGPgM )

[Victor Michel @vic_mic_]

@b0rk "gron" (with grep) as a replacement for jq when I'm too lazy to figure out the right jq incantation

https://t.co/KiM18bNipF

[Victor Michel @vic_mic_]

@seanhn Never done that, but I've seen lots from https://t.co/T88xS846EY on the road - I'd guess this is the most common option

[Victor Michel @vic_mic_]

@colmmacc @hadestown From the same singer: https://t.co/bmCXccUapf

(maybe not a hit song either, but still fairly famous)

[Victor Michel @vic_mic_]

@colmmacc @hadestown Maybe not a "hit song", but still a piece of pop culture from the 2010s:

https://t.co/zTSsw8Wp58

[Victor Michel @vic_mic_]

@RicciFlat Anything else I could have fun with, but DiffTopo was the first subject I felt I wasn't able to play with in a meaningful way. I found it deeply uninteresting in itself - it felt too arbitrary/man-made as a subject, for lack of better word
(That was 10yrs ago - I quit math since)

[Victor Michel @vic_mic_]

@RimSarah This looks like a sliced "pain feuilleté", like this with a different shape: https://t.co/6PSumO4DmC

Never had this one, but some bakeries in France make it with leftover croissant dough, so the name checks out. It's marvelously addictive, I would not call that a crime :)

[Victor Michel @vic_mic_]

@MWasielewskiJr @Google Not that you'd care now, but for international mobility (France also), I picked the cheapest Tello plan ($5/month or something). Only works over Wi-Fi calling while outside the US, but that's enough for MFA and receiving/sending calls

[Victor Michel @vic_mic_]

@MWasielewskiJr @Google Also MFA doesn't always work through GVoice (some companies disallow VoIP numbers afair - hell, some even disallow phone numbers backed by prepaid plans - not sure how that works). Main reason I stayed away from GVoice

[Victor Michel @vic_mic_]

@iximeow "success is a lousy teacher"

[Victor Michel @vic_mic_]

@danluu I think it's more than 41 if you add up all the editions of Forbes that produce such lists.
Forbes NA has 23 lists
Forbes Asia has 12
Forbes EU has 13
Then add Forbes Africa, Middle East, France... Even Forbes Monaco! https://t.co/Et7nccHOHs
That's 52 and there's probably more