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60 millions de rouleaux

Posted on 2020/04/01 by Carl Robitaille

“Juste ce mois-ci, au mois de mars, l’entreprise a déjà expédié, tenez-vous bien, 60 millions de rouleaux de plus que prévu à travers le Canada.”

What programmers say VS what they mean

Posted on 2020/04/01 by Carl Robitaille

What programmers say VS what they mean 😂 #programming pic.twitter.com/HXOKOAMGEp
— nixCraft 🐧 (@nixcraft) April 15, 2017

Plastic ratio

Posted on 2020/03/31 by Carl Robitaille

Plastic ratio: The lesser-known cousin of the golden ratio, and the only real solution of x³=x+1.

Plastic spiral: Equilateral triangles with side lengths in this ratio form a closed spiral.https://t.co/nmvpbnpImV #mathart pic.twitter.com/asL2s2JqOT
— Martin Holtham (@GHSMaths) March 31, 2020

The SIAM Epidemiology Collection has been made freely available

Posted on 2020/03/31 by Carl Robitaille

The SIAM Epidemiology Collection has been made freely available

Epidemiology articles, written from the perspective of applied mathematics. These have been made freely available for a year by the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics ⁦@TheSIAMNews⁩ https://t.co/62xIeb3LOI
— Steven Strogatz (@stevenstrogatz) April 1, 2020

Des hôtes Airbnb se moquent des consignes de François Legault

Posted on 2020/03/31 by Carl Robitaille

Des hôtes Airbnb se moquent des consignes de François Legault

When Isaac Newton stayed at home to avoid the 1665 plague

Posted on 2020/03/31 by Carl Robitaille

When Isaac Newton stayed at home to avoid the 1665 plague, he discovered the laws of gravity, optics, and he invented calculus.

It’s rumored that there was a strict “No TV” rule in his household. pic.twitter.com/0uLmmb65s5
— Neil deGrasse Tyson (@neiltyson) March 31, 2020

COVID-19 : le système judiciaire « en pause », que faire de l’arrêt Jordan?

Posted on 2020/03/31 by Carl Robitaille

COVID-19 : le système judiciaire « en pause », que faire de l’arrêt Jordan?

La grippe normale est complètement assommée

Posted on 2020/03/31 by Carl Robitaille

Voilà qui est intéressant. Et même une vraie bonne nouvelle dans le contexte. La grippe normale est complètement assommée! Il n'en reste presque plus. Évidemment, le virus grippal ne s'attendait pas à nos mesures de distanciation. Ça va être plus facile de déceler les #Covid. pic.twitter.com/OahnH7WQLE
— Alain Vadeboncoeur MD (@Vadeboncoeur_Al) March 31, 2020

This will run the ls command without using any alias called ls that might be set

Posted on 2020/03/31 by Carl Robitaille

ls # This will run the ls command without using any alias called ls that might be set. You can do this with any real command. Another way to do this is with 'command ls'.
— Command Line Magic (@climagic) March 31, 2020

Plusieurs commerces bannissent les sacs réutilisables

Posted on 2020/03/31 by Carl Robitaille

Plusieurs commerces bannissent les sacs réutilisables