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Re: Someone is wrong on the Internet



 > From: Brian <http://www.cs..edu/~b>
 > Date: Sat, 24 Aug 2019 02:34:01 -0700
 >
 > Today's xkcd is titled "Well-Ordering Principle" but what it's actually 
 > about is a finite set, and the argument that that set must have a smallest 
 > element, which has nothing to do with the Well-Ordering Principle, which is 
 > really of interest only for infinite sets, and /really really/ of interest 
 > for non-denumerable sets.

Didn't know about this.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Well-order
and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncountable_set clarified your point.

 > I'm trying to clean up my mess, all over my office and bedroom.  I just 
 > made a small beginning today (well, yesterday by now) but I'm excited.
 > 
 > I would have gotten more work done this week, but the new Neal Stephenson 
 > book, which I had on hold, came in.  800+ pages...

Thinking that it might be a good time (I hadn't done so in many months), I
rebooted my laptop yesterday and found that the window manager was
non-functional; I couldn't move windows and they didn't have borders.  In
addition, menus weren't working, my key bindings weren't correct, and the
touchpad mouse didn't work right.  After 5 straight hours, I found that my
Debian upgrade caused the problem and a subtlety in the mate's dconf
configuration (a legacy window manager removed by Debian was being
referenced).

So, that's my excuse for not getting done what really needed to get done.




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